Here is the one hundred thirty-third article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Hypocritical Republican Senator from Maine, Susan Collins. She is so honored for publicly claiming to be undecided on extreme SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD) Nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. After meeting with Trump, she rubber-stamped Kavanaugh in secret.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) apparently doesn’t want to be elected in Maine again. Maybe she is operating under some delusion that there’s something bigger for her out there, because she sure as hell is burning her bridges with the people who helped get her elected in the first place. Officially, she is undecided on Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court pick of the Russian asset in the Oval Office. Unofficially, however, it appears the fix has been in since even before the nomination was made public.
A source close to Collins’s staff tells the Huffington Post’s Laura Bassett that Collins consulted with Trump before it was finalized, and signed off on Kavanaugh. Collins’s spokeswoman, Annie Clark, gives a weak denial to the report, telling HuffPost “that while the senator talked extensively with Trump throughout the process of choosing a nominee, she ‘never gave [the White House] a list and never committed to supporting anyone.'” Yeah, in all those “extensive” talks with Trump, Collins never indicated who she’d be willing to rubber stamp.
It’s not really been much of a question, particularly after she met with Kavanaugh and told reporters that when she asked him about abortion rights, he said “that he agreed with what [Chief Justice John] Roberts said at his nomination hearing, at which he said that it was settled law,” and that his answer on Roe was “very strong.” Sure, Roberts might have said in his confirmation hearings that Roe is settled law, but that’s talk in a hearing. Since he’s been on the court, he’s voted to uphold a late-term abortion ban, voted with the minority against a majority ruling that states could not place an undue burden on a woman’s access to abortion, and voted to overturn California’s regulation of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers…
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Here in Oregon we used to have a Senator named Gordon Smith who talked a very moderate, bipartisan game. He also voted with Democrats, but only when the issue was decided and his vote did not really matter. Whenever the Republican Reich really needed his vote, you’d always see him goose-stepping with Bought Bitch Mitch. I nicknamed him Gordon Goose-step, went to work for his Democratic opponent’s campaign, and helped send him to the unemployment line in November, 2008.
Susan Collins is not as obviously vile as the Republicans who normally get parades, but she is another Republican goose-stepper that pretends to be bipartisan, just like Gordon.
Back in 2008, we replaced Gordon with Jeff Merkley [D-OR], a progressive leader after only ten years. Maine, you can have a Jeff Merkley for your state instead of a goose-stepping Republican on Parade, if you work for it.
RESIST!!
VOTE BLUE!!
65 DAYS!!
12 Responses to “Republicans on Parade – 9/2/2018”
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All best wishes to Maine, and may they get a better Senator. My impression is that there aren’t that many up there who are actually nuts, but the winner-take-all voting along with third-party candidates has bee screwing them. Well, they have now fixed that and put in ranked choice voting. I hope that helps them as much as it has helped other states.
RESIST AND PERSIST!
How can Senator Collins rubber-stamp a man who holds women in contempt? She is a traitor of deepest dye.
She’s not doing much for the folks who live there, unfortunately. Hoping for better things to come in the way for ME.
No backbone, no guts, no consideration for her people!
You can ALWAYS count on Sen. Collins to talk a good bipartisan-sounding game … and then ALWAYS voting the republican way.
I fully agree with Nameless on this one. Collins has been playing this game for at least the past two years whenever a serious, i.e. close, vote came up. The list of such last moment flipping is getting longer and longer; I hope she has now flipped once too often and her constituents see her for what she is: a goose stepper. I also hope Drumpf has promised her a great job after she fails to be re-elected and then flips on that promise too. That would serve her right.
From your keyboard to Karma’s monitor. That would be perfect.
Wouldn’t it be grand if she followed Paul LePage into retirement! LePage cannot serve another term as governor in Maine so he is gone, without doubt (and good riddance!). But Collins does not stand for re-election for another 2 years. Hopefully, her constituents will see her for what she is . . . a goose-stepper Republican . . . and send her into retirement!
I am so disappointed in Sen. Collins. I thought she was A NOTCH above McConnell and Paul.. Sigh.
Happy Labor Day!
Lets get back into the fight for workers benefits! It’s needed today in our service workforce just as much as it was needed in the 19th and 20th century for our labor workforce. Abusing workers is a bedrock ideology of Republicans and Trump is proof that abusive business ideology is alive and well, unfortunately.
My Labor Day article encourages that.
Thanks, hugs and Amen to all!