I live and learn.
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She’s right where she always wanted to be. She only ever wanted merely to give the appearance of moderation.
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Sweet would be great but she has no shot here for a number of reasons, primarily that the DSCC has it’s thumb on the scale for Gideon. But she’s also too far left for a lot of the sovereign citizen gun nuts in the north
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Susan Collins: “I never received that briefing. (That argument works for me, too, right?)”
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Oh come now, stop piling on Senator Sweety. I’m sure she’s learned her lesson.
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Count me in as very greatly concerned.
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Many historians have speculated that the revolutionaries (maybe Robespierre?) cooked that one up to further discredit the royals.
Robespierre was a pretty good rabble-rouser - accusing L. XVI of treason (resulting in his trial and execution) after he and Marie made a run for the Austrian border in 1791. They had been confined in Paris since the Women’s March on Versailles in October of 1789. The women of Paris were protesting the scarcity and high cost of bread - long subsidized by the crown. (There was a wheat shortage because of drought.) They seemed to think if the king just saw their plight for himself, they’d get bread, so they “escorted” them to Paris.
(Marie was Austrian, a princess, one of 16 children of Maria Theresa, Empress of the HRE. She was quite young (14) when she “married” Louis XVI, then 15. She was already despised by many of the French people - in large part because she was Austrian. )
The two causes - bread and a constitution - converged. "She said ‘Let them eat [brioche][cake][croissant]’!! " would have been terrific propaganda for the revolutionaries.
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I remember when Collins took that seat after her (Republican) boss left the Senate to work for Bill Clinton.
Anyway, take a look at this:
“9” denotes most likely to vote in November. Among that group and its near-neighbors, a generic unnamed Democrat does well against Collins. And once you poll a name, Gideon is seen to do better than Sweet.
Would you say that Sweet won’t beat Gideon, and that it’s just as well that she does not?
NB: These numbers are about six weeks old. Margin of error was about ± 4.5%. The poll was conducted by phone – and it’s only one poll.
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Her explanation is pathetic at best. It makes no sense. Start packing Susie.
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Yes, leaving Robespierre aside for the moment, there’s really no evidence that Marie Antoinette said the thing she’s most famous for (not really) having said.
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And very disappointed.
Somewhere there was a fork in the road and Susan Collins went the wrong way.
If I were only half as lazy as I am, I might try to figure out when it happened.
As things stand I’ll wait for her biographers – although … they had better hurry up.
Trump: Vlad assures me that you would never find it, and if you did find it, it was fake.
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I’ll go low salt, because my blood pressure rises whenever I see any of these clowns.
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Crudités.
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Sure, take the high road.
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She didn’t just vote for him. She also made a big public statement saying how she had talked to him (looked into his eyes?) and believed his assurances. Best case is that she is just too gullible & naive to be a Senator.
Note, personally, I don’t believe the best case.
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Doritos here if I have my druthers. Classic if I do not. Ruffles cut the hell out of my upper palate. Salt, not so much of an issue at the moment.
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It was 2009, after she voted for the ARA, during the ACA debate When Mitch McConnell told her to tow the line or lose her committee assignments and access to campaign cash. But she coasted on her reputation and Maine’s weird bipartisany independent fetish for another dozen years.
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See, now I don’t have to wait for her biographers and can die peacefully in my sleep!
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