Susan the double-tongued
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talkpoliticsSusan Collins does not realize she has set women's rights back some 50 years. But that's hardly a surprise...
"People who expected Sen. Susan Collins, allegedly one of two remaining Republican moderates in the Senate, to save us from Brett Kavanaugh have not studied her record. The Maine senator has reduced the choreography of legislative head-fakes to a sublime art, in order to preserve her bogus reputation as an independent-minded centrist. When a contentious issue arises, Collins will elaborately explain that she hasn’t made up her mind yet. She needs to give the issue careful study. And then, wondrously, after very careful and well-advertised study, she almost always votes with Mitch McConnell. Funny how her research invariably leads to that conclusion."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-susan-collins-kavanaugh_us_5bba611ee4b028e1fe3e99e4
Spot on, that one. There's a reason McConnell knew he had the votes. All she did was drama, act like she was conflicted. She's a part of the beltway swamp. And btw, Flake did some drama of his own too. All they had to do was pretend they had a conscience. But it was temporary, just an act.
It just wasn't convenient for her to NOT vote "yes" on Kavanaugh. It just wasn't convenient for her to believe Dr. Ford. He DID need to withdraw, and she must know this down deep. This woman is a coward and a wimp, and caved because she isn't strong enough to take the backlash she'd get from the Trump party if she voted "no". Her entire speech was tailored to fit her agenda, completely ignoring the fact that Kavanaugh showed his TRUE colors during the hearing, that he'd be unfit to be a judge with his partisan ways.
What a circus, America has become. A party in control that doesn't represent the majority and tries to cheat every step of the way, just to stay in power and then some (Merrick Garland's seat, gerrymandering, holding elections on a Tuesday so working class and minorities don't vote as much, not updating a Constitution that was written in the 1800s, a Supreme Court Justice that is obviously lying etc). A president that embarrasses the whole country internationally every time (and this isn't the first president to be a moron for the last couple of decades). Unbelievable, the kind of parallel universe people create to endure or justify this.
"People who expected Sen. Susan Collins, allegedly one of two remaining Republican moderates in the Senate, to save us from Brett Kavanaugh have not studied her record. The Maine senator has reduced the choreography of legislative head-fakes to a sublime art, in order to preserve her bogus reputation as an independent-minded centrist. When a contentious issue arises, Collins will elaborately explain that she hasn’t made up her mind yet. She needs to give the issue careful study. And then, wondrously, after very careful and well-advertised study, she almost always votes with Mitch McConnell. Funny how her research invariably leads to that conclusion."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-susan-collins-kavanaugh_us_5bba611ee4b028e1fe3e99e4
Spot on, that one. There's a reason McConnell knew he had the votes. All she did was drama, act like she was conflicted. She's a part of the beltway swamp. And btw, Flake did some drama of his own too. All they had to do was pretend they had a conscience. But it was temporary, just an act.
It just wasn't convenient for her to NOT vote "yes" on Kavanaugh. It just wasn't convenient for her to believe Dr. Ford. He DID need to withdraw, and she must know this down deep. This woman is a coward and a wimp, and caved because she isn't strong enough to take the backlash she'd get from the Trump party if she voted "no". Her entire speech was tailored to fit her agenda, completely ignoring the fact that Kavanaugh showed his TRUE colors during the hearing, that he'd be unfit to be a judge with his partisan ways.
What a circus, America has become. A party in control that doesn't represent the majority and tries to cheat every step of the way, just to stay in power and then some (Merrick Garland's seat, gerrymandering, holding elections on a Tuesday so working class and minorities don't vote as much, not updating a Constitution that was written in the 1800s, a Supreme Court Justice that is obviously lying etc). A president that embarrasses the whole country internationally every time (and this isn't the first president to be a moron for the last couple of decades). Unbelievable, the kind of parallel universe people create to endure or justify this.
