Flake: You can't call US troops at the border anything other than a 'stunt'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY BRETT SAMUELS - 11/14/18 08:24 AM EST

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that it's unnecessary to send U.S. troops to the southern border to prepare for the arrival of Central American migrants, calling the move ordered by President Trump a "stunt."

Flake, who will retire from the Senate in January, was asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what he would tell a soldier deployed to the border wanting to know why they were sent there.

"I think it’s unfortunate that we have the soldiers [at the border]," Flake said. "You can’t call it anything but a stunt here, and it’s unfortunate that they’re going to be away from family during the holidays coming up, and we just don’t know what really for.

"We don’t know where the caravan, if it makes it north, is going to come," he continued. "I think it could be handled by civilians that we have there in terms of Border patrol and others. So I don’t know what I could tell them other than we shouldn’t be doing this, and this wasn’t an issue that Congress was involved in, it was an executive decision."

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[mucifer]

1. so he makes these statements and then he votes for the billionaire tax give away and to destroy

health care

flake is horrible IMO

he is actually better at stunts than trump because people respect him for his BS statements.

[PatSeg]

5. I was thinking the same thing

Repeatedly he refuses to back up his rhetoric. Hard to take him seriously anymore.

[cstanleytech]

9. I suspect his long term goal is not to earn our trust rather he is trying to fool the

independent voters (rather than the Repugnant voters as they are morons and he should be able to win them by tossing them a few biscuits) because if he can win them down the road when he decides to run for the Presidency he has a good chance at winning.

[PatSeg]

10. That's a reasonable possibility

though I don't think he'd get past the GOP primaries.

[cstanleytech]

13. If Trump can then Flake can, all you need to know is how to play to the

Repugnant base and Flake knows how to do that.

[PatSeg]

15. I was thinking

Flake isn't crazy enough to win the wingnuts vote.

[cstanleytech]

16. You do not have to be crazy to do that just be willing to do things that most people

with any ethics would refuse to do.

[PatSeg]

18. In other words, run as a republican!

[cstanleytech]

20. Exactly.

[vi5]

2. Also Flake: "...but I'll vote for it!"

Coward.

[Coventina]

3. You can't call Flake's "outrage" anything other than a stunt.

[Iliyah]

4. STFU

you, McTutrle, Collins and Graham - just STFU

[Racerdog1]

6. Most everyone knows that

Except the scared little tRump snowflakes. What a waste of resources. Could have put barb wire around the white house to keep the orange asshole contained.

[DFW]

7. Once again, Flake's WORDS make sense--just as much as his votes do not

There has rarely been a Senator whose name more accurately describes his behavior in Congress.

[PatSeg]

11. Ha, ha, "Flake"

I hadn't thought of that. Certainly does fit him.

[hatrack]

8. That's nice, Jeff - now go sit and play quietly in the corner, m'kay?

[IronLionZion]

12. Maybe Senator Sinema will do something about it

since Flake is all talk and always flakes

[sarge43]

14. Stop the presses! Water's wet, the Pope is still Catholic and

pigs still haven't scored pilot licenses.

Jeebus Flake, with Moron et al what isn't a political stunt?

Well maybe not when he just wants to be sadistic.

[SayItLoud]

17. COUNT up clock

Wish the WaPo or NYT's or better yet the WSJ would put a *count up clock* on their front page indicating how much it's costing every minute to keep our military sitting on the border doing nothing.

Let us all see in real time what this stunt is costing.

My guess is since the F'n MORON tRUMP didn't get his parade because the Pentagon said it would cost so much he's screwing with their budgets and spending that parade amount and more on his border stunt.

[WhiteTara]

19. Flake always flakes. Boring.