Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Sunday hopped on the GOP bandwagon of accusing President Biden of “politicizing” the Supreme Court nomination process after he reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a Black woman.
She thought the timeline was compressed but since she was put forth by the Federalist Society -she knew it would be OK? Shameless.
He’s done what, so far, “handling it”? Said what his intentions were when making a nomination?
Right. And the Republican party has pre-announced what their intentions were for selecting nominees, save maybe color and gender–which were pretty easy to guess, for how long?
Shameless indeed, the problem is the media treats their shameless bad faith arguments at face value.
Uh, Trump was out there with a list of Federalist Society approved (white) judges in 2016, saying that he would only put judges that would overturn Roe on the SC. But, she’s concerned about the “clumsy” way Biden said that he’d add a person from a group that has never been on the SC so there was diversity. Yeah, sure.
The reality is that Republicans have politicized the process, and will continue to do so, because that is the only way they can force their Christian theocracy onto the nation. Their policies are not popular, if they honestly ran on them they would lose, so it’s their hope to install judges and ram their policies through judicial activism. Collins knows this, and she’s just fine with it…her vote against Barrett was ass covering and nothing more.
The candidates could never measure up to the Kavanaugh standard. Which was totally non-political.
If Collins had been the deciding vote, would she have also voted against confirmation? I thought not.
She is a worthless piece of pure dreck.
clumsy at best
Collins is playing politics now. Either that or she pre-judges people.
This is not the time for politics. Our nation faces imminent sabotage from foreign sources.
Fuck Susan Collins and anyone that takes her seriously. She responds to the slightest tug on her leash.
She put aside her “serious concerns” when she was the deciding vote on Kavanaugh.
Strange. It’s profoundly and obviously hypocritical, and a bright 9-year-old who followed politics as a hobby could easily puncture these pretensions to fair-mindedness. And yet it’s reminiscent of the good old days, when they tried to at least make their retrograde brutality sound good. They tried to have plausible-sounding reasons for what they did. What Collins comes up with is that Biden made this pledge as a candidate which makes it wrong and bad—thin, thin stuff, but her best card to play. In the context of Trump outsourcing his picks to an organization with explicit political aims in the names it picked, it’s absurd, and yet, and yet, it’s this feeble, sad effort to at least pretend to offer a rational reason to criticize this latest pick. Curious. She’s a strange, strange person.
Let’s stop piling on Susan Collins. She is an idiot, and we all know it. So let’s move on to how we can solve our problem of the Republican Party.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s hair sez wot?
H/t @tena
Gotta have some narrative planned when you look at yourself in the mirror.
We didn’t put her on today’s front page with yet another fresh example of her mendacity. She did.
OT—seems that a $4 Billion loss in cap value had an effect:
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It adds to the further perception that the court is a political institution like Congress when it is not supposed to be,” Collins said.
Hmm…maybe it’s because of people like Susan Collins and the Federalist Society that people have this impression of SCOTUS - correct in my view - but it’s the Democrats’ fault. Got it.
Wind sock Collins:
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on ABC This Week on Sunday that it’s “not likely” she would support former President Donald Trump if he seeks a second term in 2024.
“Why can’t you rule out supporting [Trump] in 2024?” host George Stephanopoulos asked Collins.
“Well certainly it’s not likely, given the many other qualified candidates that we have that have expressed interest in running,” Collins answered.
We need better candidates in Maine. She’ll never go away otherwise, and in the meantime she’ll never, ever, ever stop lying.