Susan Collins: The freaking gift that just keeps on giving!

[augyboston]

I want to thank my fellow Mainers, especially the chowder heads in the second district for re-electing this out of touch right wing hack to the Senate last year! We had a chance to get someone who actually represents our state's interests, but the tRumpsters in this state put this poor excuse of a Senator back in Washington.

After calling her office in Portland yesterday and unloading on a member of her staff (strongly suggesting that Losin' Susan watch The Handmaid's Tale), I sent the following email to our not so illustrious Senator:

Dear Senator Collins,

I am writing to express my frustration and anger with your vote to confirm Bret Kavanaugh. Once again, you blew it and you displayed poor judgment. Just like you did when you voted for the Iraq War.

You assured us during your grandstanding speech on this nomination that your support for Bret was based on your judgment that he would honor precedent! Is that what Mr. Kavanaugh did yesterday when he voted to allow Texas to release vigilantes to go after women when it comes to their decisions regarding their own healthcare?!?

Perhaps you should consider retiring at this point? You obviously lack the judgment needed to make sound decisions. It's too bad the women of Texas will have to suffer due to your ineptitude.

[doc03]

1. Mainiacs. nt

[trash MTG and MG]

2. Well said

Well Said

[uppityperson]

29. Howdy

[Casady1]

3. Dear Susan

Brett would have shoved his penis in your face if you were at school together.

[COL Mustard]

4. Well Said

Unfortunately you'll probably only get a form letter response. "Thank you for your recent letter to Sen. Collins. She appreciates your concern and her staff will look into the matters you raised."

[liberalhistorian]

15. Has she actually shown

any kind of "concern" yet over this? Because it seems to me that we're hearing radio silence from her. Maybe she's too busy writing a strongly worded email to 'ol Brett to keep in her draft folder.

[Jetheels]

20. Merrick Garland is now

Deeply concerned.

[Evolve Dammit]

35. Saw that and thought the same thing. WTF

[calimary]

42. My ass she appreciates your "concern."

How does this ZERO keep getting re-elected?

[Tiger8]

5. Thank you

Susan Collins is the lowest form of animal life.

Why people hold out hope that she will do anything for Maine is insane. I put her and Manchin on the same level....they're USELESS!

[2Gingersnaps]

12. Not completely useless.........

they serve their own self interest quite well. Public servant? Not so much.

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. You may get lucky

and get a strongly worded letter from Collins.

[llmart]

7. Great letter.

I especially like the way you ended it.

[niyad]

8. Excellent

[NurseJackie]

9. She doesn't care. She'll never read it.

At most it will become a hash-mark in the "against" column. She's a stupid woman and a liar. She's lazy. She has no moral compass.

[Paladin]

10. Stupid, clueless, destructive "Senator."

If she had an ounce of decency and self-regard, she'd retire this afternoon.

[dalton99a]

11. Collins is a conniving liar and always has been.

[ShazzieB]

33. That look suits her.

But she'd never make it as an "aunt." She's way too wishy-washy.

[Evolve Dammit]

36. yes she is. Homely homespun exterior has served her well. Should get an Emmy. n/t

[dflprincess]

44. Perhaps we should just start calling her "Aunt Susan" nt

[hamsterjill]

13. She's a joke.

All the way from that widdle biddie baby voice to that dense little brain of hers.

She defended Kavanaugh and then wants us to believe she’s “shocked” when he does exactly what everyone knew he would.

Time for a replacement.

[IronLionZion]

14. Collins was down in the polls for 2020

that election smells fishy. Unless rural Mainers lied to pollsters or something like that, Sara Gideon should be the Senator.

[leftieNanner]

17. The ES&S Machines they use in Maine (and Kentucky)

Are very old and easily hackable. I thought it looked fishy too. Same with Mitch's reelection. He has something like a 19% approval rating in his state.

[modrepub]

16. Of Course You're Assuming

she's not a closeted "Pro-Life" person.

Watch people's actions, not their words.

Poets priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
'Cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

- G M T Sumner

[Celerity]

18. her bestie voted for that fucker Kavanaugh too

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-live-vote-senate-confirmation.html



Joe Manchin endorses Susan Collins for reelection

https://www.rollcall.com/2019/04/11/democratic-sen-joe-manchin-endorses-gop-sen-susan-collins-for-2020/

[Evolve Dammit]

37. Good to know this. Joe's gotta go

[dalton99a]

47. Yep.

[aggiesal]

19. Send your letter to some newspapers ..

Letters-to-the-Editors, Sen. Collins might get more pressure from other Maine citizens.

[JudyM]

43. ⬆️ THIS ⬆️

It’s a great letter, needs wider viewership!

[SKKY]

21. Don't worry. Nothing to worry about...

Rumor has it she is very concerned.

[Percy]

22. Well said. Thank you.

[Upthevibe]

23. Kick....n/t

[secondwind]

24. Well said!

[Blue Owl]

25. K&R

[smb]

26. Condition Yellow

[OMGWTF]

27. Waiting for her to finally strangle herself clutching her pearls.

[Vinca]

28. I'm sure Susan is very concerned.

Good letter, too. My brother lives in Portland and Maine seems to definitely be a sane vs. insane state. At least Paul LePage is gone. That's something.

[LakeArenal]

30. Ummm She was lying when she said that.

I can tell. Her lips were moving.

[maxsolomon]

31. She's the perfect "Moderate" GQP Senator

Actually fairly skilled in the Arts of "avoiding questions she doesn't want to answer", "appearing to be reasonable" and "never taking a stand until voting exactly as predicted".

The Senate is full of Narcissists and Sociopaths (I'm going to include St. Manchin in that group) - it's almost a requirement for the job.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

32. Second District Resident here!

Help! I see more confederate flags in a day than most people in the southern U.S.. And these people do not get that the election is over, Trump signs everywhere. Some cost more than their trailor.

[dem4decades]

34. The 2nd District spits on the grave of Joshua Chamberlain . Imagine those Maine Trumpers defending

Little Round Top.

[Evolve Dammit]

38. excellent point!

[SoFlaBro]

39. She is a MAGA asswipe of a fuckwad. She isn't worth a squirt of dog piss.

n/t

[llashram]

40. ++

next roe v wade, civil and voting rights acts, brown v board of education., women's right to vote. And finally only landed gentry will be able to vote...again.

[paleotn]

41. Last congressional republican standing in New England.

[cstanleytech]

45. Collins knew full well what kind of person Kavanaugh was when she voted for him so it was not a vote

done due to being inept.
No, the only reason she said what she said was to cover her own ass before the 2020 election and she is counting on the voters to forget that she said what she said and voted how she voted before the next election if she decides to run for office again.

[Lithos]

46. Look - it was not a matter of judgement for her

Rather, she **knew** what he would do - but chose to lie about it to "just get by". She chose to lie to the voters of Maine, to the United States for some short term benefit it would gain her.

Do not attack her for her judgement about evaluating Bret Kavanaugh, attack her for her judgement in choosing to lie to the people of Maine and to the United States.

L-

[PatrickforB]

48. Nice. Keep it up. I'm writing/calling my US Senators and Representative

pretty often at this point.