Flake Is Flaking On Kavanaugh

Everyone’s been hoping Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska derail Kavanaugh’s Thursday confirmation:

I hate to make this political. But it is. And we are running out of time. This comes down to @SenatorCollins & @lisamurkowski.

They must stand up for women everywhere.

Please flood their twitter streams. Ask them to do the right thing for the country and #PostponeTheHearing.

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) September 16, 2018

But being from Arizona… I have ANOTHER concern:

Jeff Flake is retiring and has no political rationale to jam through a nominee facing a sexual assault allegation

We now get to find out who he really is

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 16, 2018

BINGO.

…and it’s warranted:

NEWS: Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tells me in an intv he that doesn’t think the Judiciary Cmte should move ahead with its Thursday vote on Kavanaugh until they hear more from Christine Blasey Ford. “For me, we can’t vote until we hear more.”

— Sean Sullivan (@WaPoSean) September 16, 2018

He’s flaking.

It’s happening. Graham says he’s open to “hearing more” from the accuser:

Sen. Graham: “If Ms. Ford wishes to provide information to the committee, I would gladly listen to what she has to say and compare that against all other information we have received about Judge Kavanaugh.”

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) September 16, 2018

And Grassley is working to make that happen:

NEWS — Grassley and Feinstein jointly working on scheduling follow up calls with both Kavanaugh and Ford, per spox pic.twitter.com/71PYAU9OqQ

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 16, 2018

So yeah… this is all up in the air.