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Jeff Flake: Senator Vacillator
Concerned about the threats of Second Amendment restrictionists to remove him from office, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake is already doing an about-face on his “nay” vote on universal background checks.
His Thursday vote, separating from his mentor John McMaverick, earned him the animosity of the Arizona Republic, which called him a “coward.”
On Friday, Flake’s Phoenix office was the scene of a protest, as anti-gun activists jeered, “Shame on Flake.’ It doesn’t take much to cause the junior senator to backpedal. Within two days, he was singing a new tune and calling for a new gun bill.
“I hope this debate isn’t over. I hope we can continue,” Flake waffled. “We do need to take measures to make this situation better and we can do so in a way that is consistent with the Second Amendment,” said contortionist Flake.
Remember, Flake is actually speaking of the bill he just voted against.
Now, with his finger in the wind, Flake says he cast his nay vote because the language was “too broad.” After uncomfortable clashes with the newspaper, the raucous protestors outside his office, along with his “long time friend” Gabrielle Giffords and her opportunist husband Mark Kelly — who despite their friendship, have pledged they will support a senate challenger — Flake is now proposing a “streamlined” version he hopes will win Congressional support.
Flake can’t have it both ways. In appeasing the gun control advocates demanding he apologize for failing to support Barack Obama’s prized legislation restricting firearms, Flake alienates Second Amendment supporters, who believe in the relevance of the Constitution.
Grow a spine, Mr. Flake.
2013-04-21 13:45:59
Source: http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/jeff-flake-senator-vacillator/
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