She’s not up for re-election until 2020, so I’m surprised she’s bothering to pull out her tired old act now.
If they give Garland a public hearing it will only make it harder for them to vote him down.
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Not sure you should have predicated your argument on the idea that she is just doing it to appear moderate in an election year when she’s not up for re-election.
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The only way Collins does not win re-election in 2020 is if she is primaried from the right, and even then it probably won’t happen. Of course, she may chose not to run for re-election and instead seek the governorship here in Maine.
Of course, this is assuming that there is a GOP left for her to hook to after this November.
It didn’t occur to her that he needed a hearing before meeting with him? It occurred to me some time ago. It’s like she’s inventing the wheel.
We here at Queers for Cruz (SF) are positively giddy with anticipation at tonight’s results from WI. We wish to assure the RINO from Maine that we do indeed know where she lives; where she works, and what her phone # is
Susan Collins has ferogot. The GOP operates on Cruz Rulz!!! 
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And the farmer from here in Iowa
They are not going to approve a judge nominated by President Hillary.
Even if that means they spend another 4 years pretending that there is nothing wrong with that. And the media will play along.
The Senate MUST be flipped in this election. There is no other alternative if Americans want a working country.
McConnell’s problem is not that Garland would be confirmed. His problem is that public hearings would show that Garland is not the wild eyed liberal corollary to Scalia but is instead an eminently qualified, moderate jurist. At that point any GOP senator who voted against Garland would be on record as being a rabidly insane ideologue and that won’t play well in the November elections.
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She could easily be Senator for life. Such a better deal than Governor.
No term limits, a longer term, and absolutely no true responsibility for anything, except raising $$$ to get re-elected.
A fake show from phony GOP “moderates.”
Dear Senator Collins: Surely you have learned by now that trying to argue using reason to your colleagues is like wearing a sirloin ball gown in a cage of lions. As long as Chuck Grassley and Mitch McConnel are in charge of the menagerie, you are not likely to see reason prevail.
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Agreed, but I couldn’t resist the chance to poke Yertle.
But, if anyone were to get a pass on this, I expect it would be Johnson, the idjit from Wisconsin. He’s on record for holding the party line: no hearings, no talking, no nothing. That makes no sense, unless he wants to lose to Feingold in November.
I could easily give her far more credit if she would just switch parties.
Could say the same thing about Olympia Snowe…and where is she now?
If the Tea Party survives the comping Trumpocalypse, I can see her being primaried from the right, but that would probably just push her into a independent run, which has a history of success here in Maine.
If there is a Dem senate with Clinton as president, the judicial filibuster will be gone faster than Mitch McConnell can change his Depends.
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I pretty well have to agree. He only needs 4 Republican Senators to cross the aisle and vote for him. That would make it a 50-50 tie, and, as VP, Joe Biden would get to cast the tie-breaking vote, hopefully while flipping McConnell, Grassley, and Hatch the bird. With both hands. And I wouldn’t put it past Joe, either. He has even less fucks to give than Obama does.
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Why did Snowe suddenly bail out in 2012?
To some extent, this is a Hail Mary play by the GOP Senate caucus, hoping that, against the odds, a Republican will be elected President.
The real question is what happens if and when Hillary is elected. One might think that, having said that the next President should have the right to nominate Scalia’s replacement, the Republicans in the Senate will accept Hillary’s nominee subject to traditional ground rules, i.e., they might filibuster if the nominee is too far to the left so as to be out of the mainstream. There continue to be some Republican Senators with respect for these traditions–McCain, Graham, certainly Collins, perhaps Grassley and a few others. This is particularly the case for McCain and Grassley, assuming they win re-election in November. But the pressure from rightwing interest groups and talk radio has been intense on the Garland nomination. I would expect that the pressure will likewise be intense to reject Hillary’s choice. Will the Republicans in the Senate throw over Senate traditions on this issue and instead stonewall any Hillary appointment? That would be a truly awful development, since it would be an essentially dead-end move and would reflect a refusal to accept the results of the election. In my view, that would be the beginning of the end of our liberal democracy. A nice experiment while it lasted, but ultimately ruined by the radicalization and win-at-all-costs attitude of one of the two major political parties.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
You’re forgetting he is, in fact, one of the dumbest sunsabitches ever to hold a seat in that august body. Which is saying something.