BOREALIS, the Coons and Flake search for fairness is honorable. Graham the weasel of the moment. thanks for this backgroundm from your last link ..
"“People who saw Dr. Ford yesterday were emboldened to come out and say what had happened to them. I heard from friends, close friends, I had no idea,” Flake said late Friday.
Coons opposes Kavanaugh and was preparing to deliver a speech on Friday morning lambasting Kavanaugh’s steady advance toward confirmation despite Ford's compelling testimony. But then the Delaware senator had a different idea.
"Am I trying to make an argument that could possibly persuade my friend Jeff Flake, or I am trying to make an argument that is simply for history?'" Coons recalled afterward. "I significantly revised my comments to make them somehow persuasive to anyone who might be interested.”
In his speech, little-noticed at the time, Coons suggested that someone with a “partisan agenda” might have leaked to the media Ford’s letter alleging the assault — harmonizing with what Republicans had been saying for days. Coons' speech also repeated his request for an FBI investigation.
It was exactly what Flake was looking for.
Not long afterward, Coons and Flake repaired to a committee anteroom to hash out an agreement: Democrats would endorse a one-week FBI investigation into Kavanaugh, and Flake would use his leverage in the narrowly divided Senate and threaten to vote "no" on the floor if Republicans refused to go along.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), whose angry defense of Kavanaugh at Thursday's hearing shocked fellow senators, interjected Friday to make clear that it was up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) whether to abide Flake. Graham said he himself didn't think an FBI probe was needed."
Kudos to Collins, Murkowski, Flake and Manchin for supporting reopening the FBI investigation. And to Coons for supplying the icing on the plate. Graham a virulent relative outlier.
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