Excellent take on Collins' "speech"

[Va Lefty]

Link to tweet

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[RKP5637]

1. Yep! ... or the one at the airline ticket counter who holds the line up forever and

then takes the same flight. I think she's an idiot.

[Samspadesnark]

37. No, it's her husband

who I think is a lobbyist in behalf of Russian interests. Google it.

[RKP5637]

46. Interesting ... there is this ...

Link to tweet

?lang=en

[Qutzupalotl]

49. Holy shit ... that thread is chilling.

Hope everyone will please read.

[Meadowoak]

2. It was more like a screetch!

[SharonAnn]

3. She loves the attention, the courting, then votes to stay in the boys club.

[Timer]

4. She has lived down to my expectations. nt

[Hortensis]

40. Yes, I already considered her corrupt, lying, betraying bitch.

She lived fully up to that today providing the Republicans the female Lindsey Graham they needed to carry on their pretense.

[riversedge]

5. It was an hours LECTURE!

[dalton99a]

6. No shit

What an attention whore

[smirkymonkey]

7. What a stupid old woman!

I honestly don't know how she ever got elected to anything. She strikes me as someone's dotty old great aunt that nobody wants around and nobody listens to.

[keithbvadu2]

16. How she got elected

Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate.
She was in a three person primary race and so far back she could not even see the other two candidates' tail lights.

The millionaire candidate sponsored an investigation of the evangelist candidate who got run out of a southern state because he was boinking his twelve year old babysitter.

The millionaire denied his involvement but the public turned against both him and the evangelist, leaving Susan Collins as the sole remaining viable candidate.

[True Blue American]

20. Your Avatar?

Is that Golden Dog?

[INdemo]

68. She sure as hell didnt write that closing argument speech

It was no doubt written written by an attorney and most probable writer..Don McGhan I have no doubt it was him.Collins doesn't have the smarts.

Just wondering who the main Trump lap dogs are..Collins,Flake,Grajam,or Manchin....
After hearing Grahams recent comment in the Senate his position is probably under the oval office desk facing Trump.......

[BigDemVoter]

8. Fucking piece of SHIT.

I LOATHE her.

[Woodycall]

14. She's the velvet glove on the iron fist of fascism. n/t

[True Blue American]

21. Poor excuse of a woman.

BTW, Grassley just had to walk back his statement of the Judiciary having no women because the work load is too heavy!

[mobeau69]

9. So she put that speech together this afternoon? Yeah, sure.

I'd bet she used the whole week delay to work on it.

[magicarpet]

10. Collins at a restaurant,..

Just a glass of water, please...

I brought my own white Wonder bread and Velveeta cheese sandwich. That's the only thing I eat for breakfast, lunch, and supper.

[appalachiablue]

55. +1

[zentrum]

11. Her so-called reasoning is McConnell-like.

She says having a Court where at last we can have a 5 to 4 split instead of 4 to 4, will "restore the stature of the Court".

If a woman-threatening,Roe-hating, lying, hot-headed egoist is your definition of stature, then you are a true, smarmy sell-out Repug.

Disgusted with her.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Yeah, as soon as she opened her mouth it was obvious she was a yes...

Nearly an hour of justification and rationalization later, she drops her anti-climactic pronouncement.

:

[luvallpeeps]

27. Yea, I coulda named that tune in one note.

I've heard more pleasant chalkboard scratches.

[AdamGG]

13. 2020 - Democrats need to field a candidate that will end her

[True Blue American]

25. Democrats have already raised $1.5 million for a Democratic candidate

They do not have yet.

Do not forget Maine elected this guy with 30% vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_LePage


Yet they have Angus King.

[AdamGG]

44. LePage only got elected because there was a 3 candidate field

with a Democrat and a fairly liberal independent candidate splitting the votes in left and center. Collins is popular because she's gotten the reputation as a moderate, but she's sided with Trump enough times now that if the Democrats are ever going to oust her, 2020 should be the year. Maine has some red areas, but it's a blue state overall.

[True Blue American]

58. I know

That is why I said LePage won 30%.

There are several popular Democrats lined up to run against her. They are also taking their money out of WV for Manchin.

When Collins first ran she promised to only serve 2 terms. That time was a decade ago.

Now that the info is out about her lobbyist husband she will retire.

[Duppers]

15. Had an EX-friend like that.

[DallasNE]

17. Collins: A Total Load Of Crap

First, she described Kavanaugh as a moderate in her mold that would preserve pre-existing conditions and uphold Roe v Wade. Then she didn't do her due diligence and seek expert testimony on trauma and whether what Dr. Ford said fit the pattern given the trauma. She also disregarded what Dr. Ford said about the laughter of her attackers and her 100% certainty that it was Kavanaugh. It was a total crock, start to finish.I expect this speech will come back to haunt her.

[turbinetree]

18. Yepper, spot on..........................just think her vote will provide cover for her husband

Thomas Daffron and his lobby firm and the connections to the Russians and other oligarchs


https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/indus.php?id=16017


https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211122605

[True Blue American]

26. Oh,crap

They got her husband,too,

[gratuitous]

19. You can count on Senator Collins

She'll always let you down. She needs to be voted out very badly come 2020.

[dawnie51]

22. So sick of this reality show.....

this whole past week has been kabuki theater, start to finish. I tend to cynicism anyway, but only the most naive could have been fooled by this amateur production. Collins is especially heinous. She is the worst, a woman who has no connection to her gender, because she thinks she's as powerful as the male idiots she consorts with in the Senate. Can't wait for karma to visit her.

[luvallpeeps]

28. sickening how Trump would claim the FBI had "free rein"

And for Flake to pretend he was moved in any way, shape, or form in the elevator. How disgusting this all is.

[TwistOneUp]

23. Bingo! nt

[ProudDem314]

24. Yep

She would of been better off just releasing a statement.

[oldtime dfl_er]

29. I would love to see her voted out in 2020

but not just voted out, RESOUNDINGLY VOTED OUT by a LANDSLIDE. Maine is independent enough to do this.

[DallasNE]

51. Susan Rice Said Today

That she is giving thought to running against Collins. Republicans would make this about Benghazi rather than Collins. Others may come along too.

[calimary]

30. I didn't hear her whole speech. But what I did hear

sounded painfully naive. What excerpt I did hear made me wonder if it was time to cue Hailey Mills from the original “Parent Trap” and her musical interlude “Let’s Get Together, Yeah Yeah Yeah.”

Let’s get together. Yeah, right. Sure we can get together. That’ll fix everything.

[George Eliot]

32. +1

[George Eliot]

31. Collins went to extreme rhetoric CYA but she threw Ford under the bus and missed the point.

When she said that Ford was credible and something did happen to her, she basically told Ford that Ford didn't really remember her attacker. And Collins missed the fact that this was about lying, not sex. He lied to the Judiciary Committee. End of story. And that is exactly what most of his school friends said. They liked him but he lied.

Not only that, she basically called it a smear by Democrats which it was not. Any such allegation should and would be brought forward. I wonder if Olympia Snow had been there, Collins might have had more courage.

[Power 2 the People]

34. +1000

Exactly.

[LiberalFighter]

39. It was misdirection away from the facts.

[mcar]

33. Oh yeah!

[ZeroSomeBrains]

35. I didn't trust her one second

She is a snake that fakes doing the right thing until the moment where it actually matters when you need to do the right thing.

[LiberalFighter]

36. Except in this case with Kavanaugh

she was going to vote however she was told.

[Autumn]

38. She's spent the last 2 weeks writing that speech she gave today.

[oasis]

59. Collins apparently didn't know the ABA withdrew support for Kavanaugh.

A clumsier application of flim flam could come from no other member of the senate.

[Roadside Attraction]

41. Well, it's only fair . . .

I mean -- we Democrats, Progressives, Liberals and Decent People have four seats on the Supreme Court. It's only fair that rapists, liars, blackout drunks and assholes have at least one representative on the Court.

[Autumn]

43. You forgot Thomas. That makes 2

[generalbetrayus]

56. Very reminiscent of the Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska argument

for supporting G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court. From Wikipedia:

Hruska is best remembered in American political history for a 1970 speech he made to the Senate urging them to confirm the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Responding to criticism that Carswell had been a mediocre judge, Hruska claimed that:

Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.

[bdamomma]

42. Senator

Murkowski can look at herself in the mirror as well as Hedi.

[stopwastingmymoney]

45. Crowd pac link to donate to her opponent

https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/387413/either-sen-collins-votes-no-on-kavanaugh-or-we-fund-her-future-opponent

When I went searching for this there were several stories about how it was crashed two hours ago due to excess traffic.

[tymorial]

47. I was in front of this person tonight at rite aid.

It literally makes me mental.

[peekaloo]

48. Natasha now come join Comrades for victorious circle boof!

but we pass on Triangle of Devil.

[FakeNoose]

50. "she gets the same thing she always gets" and somebody else is buying

[Varaddem]

52. Sure. Just a coincidence about her husband

And Putin

[Azathoth]

53. Not to be immodest, but I'm pretty sure that was copied from me

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211232307

[orleans]

54. she's an asshole n/t

[tavernier]

57. Why do we waste time and energy on her?

She’s just Mitch McConnell with hair.

[Midnight Writer]

60. The Myth of the Moderate Republican.

[Vestigial_Sister]

61. I won't be sad...

to see 'Edith Bunker' go bye-bye. Only wish it was next month instead of two years from now.

[alterfurz]

62. Does Clarence Thomas like beer?

At least now he'll have someone to share a Coke with.

[R B Garr]

64. She is being nailed for her double standards over Franken

just a short time ago. I guess she thinks Franken had to leave the Senate over mere accusations, but Kavanaugh is fit to serve, no problem. I’m surprised there haven’t been more threads about this here.

[RKP5637]

65. Lady with a smile that sticks a knife in your back. n/t

[malthaussen]

66. Given her transparent mendacity...

... I believe I dislike Mrs Collins even more than Mitch McConnell. At least the latter doesn't pretend to be "moderate" with his mouth, while voting to destroy the Republic when the time comes. Her pretense of "deliberation" is disgusting.

-- Mal

[TryLogic]

67. She promised to stay for only 2 terms, 4 terms ago.

Get her the hell of out there.