Collins said she did not know how the decision was made for Republicans
to take that hardline stance, adding that it was “inappropriate” that
“both sides” launched a “political battle” so quickly after Scalia’s
death.
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Sen Collins, you really don’t know what’s behind that hardline stance? Really? OK then, you might want to have a sit down with a certain guy named Mitch McConnell. Hear from him about his feelings toward that man pretending to be President of the United States While Black. Mitch has been stridently opposed to anything …and I do mean anything Obama wanted to do. This dust up is just the latest, Ms Collins. Talk to Mitch…hear about his boiling hatred for all things Obama. Hear especially the talk he gave the day Obama picked Judge Garland. Listen to the hatred that drips off each word in that talk. Then tell me Mitch McConnell doesn’t hate Obama and isn’t the fucking racist he is. Tell me that Senator, I’ll listen.
You are correct that there’s no basis not to consider this nomination, other than McConnell’s hatred and racism getting in the way. The Senate should consider this nomination. After all it is their job.
The GOTP senators are playing a game of chicken. On one side you have the twice elected Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States.
On the other…
Yes. She threw the LaPage wing of Maine’s wacky right a bone. Still, good for the senator. She criticized McConnell and GOP senate leadership practically by name, more than any other GOPer had the balls to do.
…precious bodily fluids…
“Women uh… women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh… I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I… I do deny them my essence.”
“The leader’s not real happy with me,”
Here’s a radical thought, maybe they don’t deserve of be your leader and you should stop being a follower.
LOL. I don’t know who you’re quoting, but it sounds like some gay villain.
He is riffing on Jack D. Ripper, from Kubrick’s brilliant cold war satire, Dr. Strangelove.
Ted Cruz: Ms. Collins is being naive. Obama was not born in USA. He cannot be a legal president as he is not a natural born citizen. He, therefore, has no rights. None.
I like the fact that when it comes to self-preservation as a Senator versus following the party line…saving one’s behind always wins!
Except Collins is not up this cycle.
I’m quoting General Jack D. Ripper from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)’ - probably the funniest satirical movie ever made.
And prescient too. Twenty years later the USSR did build a doomsday machine (Perimeter) and they didn’t tell anybody about it!
So true. There is way to much evidence to try and argue against your statement.
Well, there is conflicting accounts if the Soviets actually built and deployed a dead-hand launch system. But worthwhile that you mentioned it.
David Hoffman’s book “The Dead Hand” goes into a little detail ( I guess not much is actually known, at least publicly) and describes it as different from the Strangelove version in that it still needed to be triggered initially by a human.
Susan Collins lives in a dream world, just like most legislators and judges.
In fairness to her, I politicized it immediately upon the news of Scalia’s death. First there was partying, then there was the ‘how far left can we push the court?’, then there was the ‘Thomas is as old as Scalia, what are the odds?’.
PS. Still happy Scalia is dead. 2016 off to a good start.
Now THERE is the winning argument, to convince the GOP leaders that already hate Trump: Who would President Trump nominate? I have this vague image of Supreme Court Justice Howard Stern.
To be called “a moderate” senator, you have to actually break ranks with your radical extremist party and vote like a moderate occasionally. Making mouth noises like a moderate while voting like a Bircher seems to work like a charm with the voters of Maine and the Broderite media zombies, but damned if I understand why it works on someone who writes for TPM.
Poor Susan…the kind of moderate Republican who in another life would have worked with Democrats to find solutions to problems. Instead she has spent the last 7 years frantically paddling rightward to avoida primary battle from her wingnut branch and in the process has managed to survive but at the price of her soul.
Maybe her calculus is shifting and she is thinking…"OK…so I show a little spine here while my party heads over the cliff. I’ve still got four years left on my current term and by then I can either retire if the idiots remain in control, or maybe the worst of the Tea Party will be discredited in the upcoming election and I can spend maybe one more term doing what I used to enjoy.
I give Collins a bit of credit. On the other hand, Kirk in Illinois is plainly desperate and Ron Johnson in MN is fully delusional. I am beginning to think that a Trump nomination may be the best stimulus we have for a restoration of Democratic control of the Senate. I still think the House is a bridge too far and even if we somehow got numeric control, the squish factor of Yellow Dog Democrats needed to hold the line would be a constant problem for party leadership.
But a boy can dream can’t he. BTW…Hillary’s speech yesterday on GOP obstruction of the nominating process and their failure of policy and governance was one of her best.