They ALL must VOTE NO TO KAVANAUGH!!!
âOK ⌠letâs see here ⌠who ordered the waffles?â
So much contempt for these people.
Crowdpac funding to support Collins opponent in 2020 still close to $2 million. Money talks!
theyâre fighting over who gets to vote yes yet still ensure they donât have enough votes to confirm the guy.
Collins: âJeff - youâre never going to be president, and for sure not if you vote yes - just vote no already.â
Flake: âFucking Manchin, heâs killing us. WTF is that d-bag doing - heâs already up 12 points!!??â
Murkowski: âYou know damn well Iâm a no, letâs just fucking vote alreadyâŚI canât keep this concerned aura up 24/7.â
I wonder if they drew straws to see who got to vote no.
Itâs Friday morning.
Someone (or 2) seems to be wavering, but I canât believe itâs Collins. Anyone who says that sham of a farce of an insult of an FBI investigation was extremely thorough is looking for a fig leaf of justification to vote for it.
Democrats are pretty slow on the uptake, that the Kav ought to recuse himself from half his caseload, based on the disqualifying, unhinged, partisan, conspiracy-theorizing, Hillary-blaming rant we witnessed last week. More importantly, Dems are completely MIA on how unfit to serve are the Majority Leader and Judiciary Committee Chairman. Why is their own flawed nominee apologizing to the editorial page instead of the Committee? What kind of rushed, fraudulent, horse-and-pony confirmation shitshow are you people running on your side of the aisle?
Good job there referring to Kavanaugh as the Demsâ nominee. Totally not suspicious.
sounds like the old 3 blind mice story.
vote no and walk right into the media hands.
vote yes and hide somewhere for a week or 2.
politician extraordinaires. lol
How about Cory Gardner? Hasnât said anything meaningful about Kavanaugh since July, and met with sexual assault survivors yesterday. All sorts of hints lately that his voteâs still up for grabs.
(If youâre a Colorado resident, keep calling him!!)
When Collins said she was cool with Rape-enaughâs position on Roe v. Wade because he talked to her in her office, you knew the fix was already in. Nobodyâs that stupid.
One of the few morsels that anyone has said is Flake saying that while he didnât know if Fordâs accusation was provable, he was troubled by Kâs hearing rant being âsharp and partisanâ and added âwe canât have that on the courtâ. (He later denied that he was talking about Kavanaugh when he said that, which was coffee out of the nose snortingly funny).
Saying that that this obvious sham of an FBI investigation looked solid is gullible and idiotic (or looking hard for a fig leaf) but everyone saying that that was âa signal that they would vote yesâ are jumping to a conclusion possibly not warranted. Could well be that they think no charge was proved but balk at the unfitness displayed by Kâs insanely partisan unhinged rant. Not saying they will vote no, but they could do so for reasons other than whether the investigation turned up anything.
if he is already a no then this caginess is world class trolling and fuckery with the repthugs.
if he votes yes he deserves to be voted out of office.
As of right now, the GOP doesnât have the votes. So long as Manchin doesnât do something stupid and inane here, it will all be on Collins/Murkowski. Neither of those 2 has shown any interest in being vote #50 or #51. Itâs also not clear where Flake is going to go. He tried to play Coons yesterday after Heitkamp declared as a ânoâ (sense a pattern here?), but this time Coons appeared to politely decline that Flakey Flake sweet talk. Flakey Flake will have to put up or shut up. I really donât know how he got elected in AZ. Heâs like the worst politician ever.
No indication that Mitch plans on blinking here and delaying the vote through a procedural maneuver.
Still donât get the sense that Kavanaugh will withdraw unless GOP Senators make calls to him to tell him itâs over.
Chances of Kavanaugh being confirmed are at 48%, but the foundation has been weakened and exposed. The GOP has less fight than it did earlier in the week when they were planning to get everyone aligned around the fake FBI report. All the independent press reports and interviews with witnesses served to buoy a quick Democratic rejection of the report as âbullshitâ. When Heitkamp declared as a ânoâ, it ended the news cycle for the GOP and left them with nothing but their own personal convictions, and the fence sitters have no strong convictions in favor of Kavanaugh. Theyâre thinking only about their own political survival and not about the country. Fortunately, the voters in Maine, Alaska and Arizona are all making their voices heard, and that has changed the political calculations of Collins and Murkowski.
As for Manchin, Iâm a big supporter of his but I think he has overplayed this stuff a bit. I thought Patrick Morrisey trolled him pretty well over the weekend about how heâs putting his finger up to the political winds to make his decision. For Joe, the decision was always about the ACA, because his entire campaign is about the ACA. This really isnât that hard and he shouldâve come out against Kavanaugh last week with Donnelly. He knows how much both Donnelly and Heitkamp have raised after announcing as a ânoâ. While Iâm a big fan of Joeâs, voting âyesâ at this juncture is completely inexcusable. I donât think he will, but I think he has politically overplayed his hand in WV on this issue. I see no scenario in which Manchin is vote #50 or vote #51. He will either be the 49th no or the 52nd âyesâ.
It looks like weâre going to get the dramatic floor speeches from Manchin and Collins. Murkowski is mum. All I have to say is that Joe better not âfâ this up. If the GOP is going to push Kavanaugh through, let them do it with their entire caucus and not a single Democratic vote.
Likely neither a yes nor a no but entirely Schrodingerâs cat at this point, and wonât resolve into one or the other until the box is opened. Meaning when either he sees where the others are going or itâs time to vote and he has to.
All I have to say is that Joe better not âfâ this up
LIEBERMANNNNNN!
Oh heâs not there.
Funny but thatâs actually what flashed through my mind when I first read the name. Force of habit.