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2017-11-07 Home Front: Politix

Sen. Flake on 'View': ‘You Can’t Win’ As a Republican by ‘Telling the Truth’

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Posted by Fred 2017-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 BS.

You are a Democrat lite, not a Republican and certainly not a conservative.

Flake, you missed the zeitgeist of the times. A critical mass of Americans now understands that the debate is not and should not be whether or not the cogs in every alphabet agency clown farm get a 4.8% raise instead of a 5% raise like the Democrats want to do, it's whether the agency and those jobs should exist at all.

And the debate isn't whether or not we should keep giving millions of Americans unnecessary public sector anxiety-free and metric-free jobs in exchange for loyalty to whichever politicians gave them the jobs, bloating the size of the public "work" force by four times in two generations with no significant increase in the amount and quality of government services to show for it and paying for them with money borrowed against the future while looking the other way to let in foreigners to do the real work or not. This system cannot be tweaked, it is unsustainable and needs to be destroyed, no half-measures.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-11-07 05:22|| 2017-11-07 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 "What's in your wallet" Jeff?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-07 07:24|| 2017-11-07 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Sen. Flake on 'View': ‘You Can’t Win’ As a Republican by ‘Telling them the Truth that you're a Democrat’

FIFY

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-07 08:16|| 2017-11-07 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Dave Weigel, The Washington Post: I called Jeff Flake the Sunday before the election. I said, “I have one round of questions if Hillary wins, and one if Trump wins.” And he just started laughing, saying, “Why would you bother asking the second one?”
LINK

Posted by 3dc 2017-11-07 11:14|| 2017-11-07 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 In other words: "I am a liar"

Posted by Iblis 2017-11-07 11:16|| 2017-11-07 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 It's called Democracy, Flake. You lose.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-07 12:10|| 2017-11-07 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 They all go left once they get to DC. Some go further than others, but they all go left. Term limits are a start, but ultimately a much emasculated federal gummint is the only real fix.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-11-07 13:48|| 2017-11-07 13:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Based on history, you can't win political elections by telling the truth: the people want to be lie to.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-11-07 16:00|| 2017-11-07 16:00|| Front Page Top

#9 I once believed that they went left when they got to Washington, now I believe that they are like the 'token conservatives' working for news media, that they are lefties pretending to be conservative long enough to get the job.That way if the Dems win they push their agenda forward and if the 'token conservative' wins there is nobody there to stop the lefts agenda being pushed forward.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-11-07 17:18|| 2017-11-07 17:18|| Front Page Top

#10 3dc beat me to it.

Posted by charger 2017-11-07 18:41|| 2017-11-07 18:41|| Front Page Top

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