Why did that flake guy say he wanted an FBI investigation?

Can't he see that he's playing right into the democrats hands. This is nothing but a smear and ford is a liar. I think what she explained happened to her but she's clearly lying about it being kavanaugh she has a very selective memory and more holes in her story than a slice of Swiss cheese whereas, Kavanaugh has a calendar detailing his movements at the time, All witnesses are deny all knowledge of the event including fords best friend at the time. It's just absolutely insane does he not realise that when you give these zealots an inch they'll take a mile.

The wonderful thing about American history is that we have made our greatest progress when the seemingly powerless have caught the attention of the powerful. Thanks to Maria Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila for making their voices heard, and to Senator Flake's stepping up to be a true leader, we just saw democracy in action and witnessed a victory for decency. We saw the triumph of reason, bipartisanship, and the good of the country over tribalism. An FBI investigation is the right move at this time and the FBI will uncover the facts, so that Americans can make an informed choice. If Judge Kavenaugh is truly innocent as you believe, this investigation will clear his name. Isn't that what you want?

He is ONLY watching-out for HIS re-election, NOTHING ELSE. NOT the good of the people, NOT the state of the country, just HIM. If the world goes to #ell without Kavanaugh, he could care less, as long as HE gets re-elected…

It should strike you as curious that Ford got details about items found on Kavanaugh's calendar exactly right months ago, despite his calendar not becoming public until this week.

Let's compare their testimony to see which one was lying… Ford gave quick, clear, unequivocal answers. Kavanaugh gave evasive, babbling answers and even chose to ignore some questions. Kavanaugh also rephrased questions. That only happens when someone has something to hide.

Most people believe that she's more credible than Kavanaugh.

Flake did it because he has a conscience and doing what he thinks is the right thing to do. Voting along party lines is being a lemming.

If you're going to approve someone for a position for life then don't you think everything should be known about the guy.

They want that week to do legislation before the Democrats shut this country down and default on the debt by having no spending resolution. Then the US dollar will collapse in value.
The Democrat's coming full Senate filibusters over Kavanaugh will so parallelize the US that President Trump be forced to become a dictator. To save American lives, and for the country to continue; President Trump will have to take total emergency budgetary and legislative control from the hopelessly dead locked Senate. Then we can make this emergency permanent, so America will be permanently great again.

Just to prevent the "liberal" propaganda machine from constantly repeating that Kavanaugh was confirmed with no FBI investigation, which many gullible people will ascribe significance to.

Of course, smart people like you and me know that an FBI investigation is completely meaningless. They can't possibly discover anything that the Judiciary Committee didn't already know. Just background-checking stuff, which they've already done 6 times. Neither the FBI, nor any other government agency, can do a thorough investigation of any American citizen without probable cause, and Flake knows that perfectly well.

So here's what I expect to happen. On Tuesday, the Senate will confirm Kavanaugh with all 51 Republicans and possibly a few Democrats. At approximately the same time, the FBI will announce that they've completed their investigation of Judge Kavanaugh and found nothing to cause any concern. What is the psychotic left going to do? Protest that the FBI is obviously not doing their job, since they're controlled by Trump?

You think he's being played by the Democrats, but you've got it backwards. Flake is playing them like a fiddle. I think Trump must have offered them something for putting on this spectacle.

Remember, for all the grandstanding Jeff Flake did at that committee meaning, the only word he said which was binding on anything was "aye"

He is one of the few descent republicans in congress a rare bird indeed

Don't worry. He's just placating the angry mob, and it's very unlikely anything will come off the investigation. Like Kav said, everything there's to come out has aleady been discovered. We'll see what happens though. I'm told there's a conservative woman Trump could put up instead. Kind of hard to pull the same stunt on a woman.