“Every special interest is out in force,” Collins added, according to the Hill. “I’d say the more they come out, it’s an indication we’re doing a darn good job.”
"“We are getting lobbied by our families, our neighbors, our friends,”
followed by
“Collins, a millionaire and one of the wealthiest members of Congress”
I guess we know who his fucking friends and neighbors are then.
#2+2
Yes, it’s real.
Donors or constituents?
“My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again.’” should be tattooed to Collins’ forehead. That or “DNR.”
Speaking of calling:
His DC office number is 202-225-5265.
His Geneseo office number is 585-519-4002.
His Lancaster office number is 716-634-2324.
Is there a difference?
Huh. That moron doesn’t even bother to pretend to care about his regular little-guy constituents.
Not that we didn’t already know, but he just admitted to who wags the tail in the Republican Party. He’s a glorified stenographer for the plutocrats with, apparently, no thoughts of his own.
“My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again,’” Collins said.
Good to know the GOP’s fake concern for “the white working-class” was nothing but a steaming, stinking pile.
They’re not even pretending any more.
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedomtyranny - and that government of the peopledonors, by the people donors, for the peopledonors, shall not perish from the earth.”
Party of Lincoln, indeed …
But don’t ever call it quid pro quo.
C’mon, Mr. Collins they are bluffing, what are the donors going to do cross their arms while Democrats get elected all over the place? At this point wingnut donors have nowhere to go, call’em again when you need more money.
is currently being marked up by the House Ways and Means Committee, where Democrats have protested the secrecy with which the gargantuan bill was crafted by Republicans.
We all know that wealthy Republican donors run this plutocracy.
Scum. I’ve had it my head that the donors lobby the congress critters but to think those evil scumbags reach out to the Kochs, oil and gas, NRA , the F’n Russians! and tell them they will do what the donors want if they write the check. Scum.
I doubt they mean it for the cuts to profit mostly and especially the middle class…
someone should remind him (and others) that Lincoln was responsible for the first US income tax.
That’s because GOP donors are feckless assholes.
You can probably leave out the government Of the donors part. They will not be told what to do or how to do it.
By the donors and For the donors still stand as the ultimate truth and Collins knows it. He’s gonna get fragged for saying it out loud, though.