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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Flake

So after giving his very brave speech about how he was going to lose his re-election so he was going to quit instead and go make cool bucks on K Street, Jeff Flake turned around and voted to strip consumer protections away from ordinary Americans.  The 50-50 vote to make it harder to hold the Big Banks accountable was broken by Mike Pence. 

Jeff Flake doesn't like Donald Trump.  He doesn't like his tone.  He doesn't like that Trump.  He doesn't like that the electorate who sent him to Washington for the past two decades are a bunch of aggrieved, racist loons. 

But the policy differences between Jeff Flake and Donald Trump couldn't fit a sheet of notebook paper between it.

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