Susan Collins says she is voting against Coney
Barrett confirmation to be 'fair and consistent'
Fox News,
by
Andrew O´Reilly
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/26/2020 4:18:08 AM
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, took a veiled shot at her party’s leadership in the Senate on Sunday when she announced that she would be voting against the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
“Prior to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, I stated that, should a vacancy on the Supreme Court arise, the Senate should follow the precedent set four years ago and not vote on a nominee prior to the presidential election.,” Collins said in a statement.
She added: “Because this vote is occurring prior to the election, I will vote against the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.” Collins noted in her statement
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 10/26/2020 4:22:53 AM (No. 584406)
I wonder what side deal she cut with Mitch since he doesn't need her vote on this one. Her debt for this is gunna be pretty big.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
judy 10/26/2020 4:38:57 AM (No. 584408)
My guess is she will lose her senate seat.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stjohnswood 10/26/2020 4:59:10 AM (No. 584418)
Sorry to see this. So apparently she's retiring?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 10/26/2020 5:07:38 AM (No. 584425)
Yes, #3. After November 3rd she will be gone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 10/26/2020 5:09:50 AM (No. 584429)
Well, she got half of it right. She’s consistent.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bassman 10/26/2020 5:43:09 AM (No. 584447)
She's an idiot and a coward.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/26/2020 5:52:21 AM (No. 584454)
Collins, you are small, so very small. Shame on you. Good riddance to you in January.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LaVallette 10/26/2020 6:24:25 AM (No. 584477)
The time up for RINOS predictably always arrives eventually: they just keep swinging from tree to tree so they are bound to eventually fall off and destroy themselves. .
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FunOne 10/26/2020 6:56:22 AM (No. 584496)
Well, the drama that Mitch has to put up with by this RINO will end after this senate session concludes. It appears that her state is tired of her phony leadership. Too bad Maine will go to the democrats, though. But she does not deserve to be a republican member of the US Senate. It seems that those folks in LL Bean land have grown tired of her, just like the other RINO, Stowe. Surely there are better candidates that the republicans in Maine can locate before the next senatorial election.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TLCary 10/26/2020 7:04:03 AM (No. 584502)
There is a time to attack a RINO. That time, are called "The Primaries", has long passed.
Loosing her vote when we need it is bad, losing the Senate is a nightmare.
You can't always get what you want, but we are getting ACB... You get what you need.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LaVallette 10/26/2020 7:07:00 AM (No. 584505)
Couple of questions: So when does the time in an election year for the President and the Senate to suspend their constitutional powers concerning judicial appointments, and why just judicial appointments?, Even on election day in early November itself the Presidents mandate will still have at least two clear months to run out,. Secondly, where is that "suspension" stipulated in the Constitution of the United states.?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 10/26/2020 7:13:15 AM (No. 584514)
She must be in a heck of a fight for her seat. MItch is letting her do this and I bet its based on the polls in Maine. Susan is a RINO but she saved Kavanaugh. Barrett isn't as tight a vote. I can let her slide on a sure shot Barrett if she can keep her seat. Better Collins than some frothing at the maouth Chuckie sychophant.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/26/2020 7:28:29 AM (No. 584528)
One could always count on Susie not to be counted on.......
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 10/26/2020 7:33:20 AM (No. 584531)
Well at least Murkowskii says she will, which was a pleasant surprise This is an unpleasant non-surprise
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 10/26/2020 7:38:09 AM (No. 584537)
I understand those who don't like Collins. I am not a fan. But it's more important to keep your eyes on the prize. If this is what it takes to improve her chance of winning on Nov 3, then its a good move.
A Republican Senate means more judges like Barrett throughout the system. A Democrat Senate means Trump's reform of the courts ends. Democrats know this and will do anything to win. We should too
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Safari Man 10/26/2020 7:38:31 AM (No. 584538)
What incentive do Republicans have to vote for Collins?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 10/26/2020 7:47:02 AM (No. 584548)
I appreciated her lucid arguments for Kavanaugh.
I wonder why she can't be this clear-minded about an even more worthy justice in Amy Coney Barrett.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
vhs68 10/26/2020 7:47:23 AM (No. 584549)
If Collins is all about principles, they why doesn't she just Vote present!!!
This would affirm her principle of not nominating a SC justice late in an election year.
Voting NO is a slam on ACB. What a loser Collins is......
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/26/2020 7:51:24 AM (No. 584552)
This is all prearranged. The Republicans have 52 votes . One more doesn't 'improve' the confirmation. The political judgement is that this will improve her vote with Maine '.women' voters. Right or not we will only know on Nov 3. I would rather have Justice Barrett AND a Sen. Collins.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/26/2020 7:51:34 AM (No. 584553)
If John Roberts made a ton of money from voting for Obamacare, maybe he peeled off a few bucks to pay Collins for a NO vote to confirm. Either way, she is all used up. It reminds me of the coach putting in the worst player on the team in the last quarter.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Smoolie 10/26/2020 7:51:49 AM (No. 584554)
This will be the last we hear of Sen S. Collins. Many of previous supporters will not vote for her because of this. No liberals will vote for her because of this.
Her challenger is a carpetbagger. Totally in line with however her Party wants her to vote. A supporter of the GND, which will kill the Maine economy. Yet the Unions has members supporting her, even though she will vote their jobs away.
Its upside down world.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/26/2020 8:06:45 AM (No. 584570)
Collins is one of the stupidest US Senators, and the competition is brutal. You have Hirono, Murkowski, Patty Murray, Feinstein, Durbin, Blumenthal. Just stunningly brain dead morons. I mean Blumenthal actually thought he wouldn't get caught lying about Viet Nam combat experience. I'm not sure that Biden didn't set the low water mark for empty-headedness.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 10/26/2020 8:11:13 AM (No. 584579)
Agree with above posts. Collins is a likely loser on Nov. 3. We badly need Tillis to pull out his contest. That one looks pivotal to me.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/26/2020 8:28:15 AM (No. 584599)
If we are stuck with Collins for the next 6 years, so be it. Maybe in 2026, at age 73, retirement will look attractive to her. Or she can be primaried. The problem is, is there anyone in Maine who would be any better? It's a state that leans dem. You are not going to get a strong Republican Senator elected. A wobbly Republican may be the best they can do.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/26/2020 8:31:28 AM (No. 584601)
What a courageous way to end a long career in the Senate. s/o
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
sadc 10/26/2020 8:37:55 AM (No. 584606)
Just to be fair... I hope you lose your seat and become a Democrat. You were never any part of Team Republican... and not consistently fair minded, just voted whatever way the wind blew. Go home and do whatever you do... be a weather vane.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/26/2020 8:52:08 AM (No. 584624)
Yes, one thing a Leftist is...is consistent, and they are always WRONG.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/26/2020 8:52:20 AM (No. 584626)
OMG... what a stupid women... wonder who got to her.... china money and influence?...biden or Clinton crime families?....President Trump is following the Constitution... he deserves as president to appoint a new justice....twist it anyway you want collins... it's the law...
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/26/2020 8:52:21 AM (No. 584627)
My opinion for what it is worth.
Amy Coney Barrett is a fine candidate for the Supreme Court.
She is a brilliant lady with a fine family , her competence is proven.
She deserves a yes vote from all of the senate not only Republicans.
Collins isn't going to vote for her because she thinks it isn't right to vote her into the Supreme Court because the Democrats think they can put a man in the White House that is senile, and demented and they would have a chance to appoint another lesbian Justice.
Collins must be desperate, she should change her political affiliation.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Jebediah 10/26/2020 8:59:14 AM (No. 584643)
It took a ton of courage for Collins to vote YES on Kavanaugh, plus death threats and savaging.........I am also not a fan of a lot of her voting, but the woman does have courage and is in the fight of her life right now. Give her some slack....I am sure McConnell does.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/26/2020 9:01:24 AM (No. 584648)
Any precedent set by the Obongo/Biden/Jarrett Administration should be ignored or used as the example of what not to do. Collins has been a huge disappointment, like 90% of the rest of Congress.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/26/2020 9:09:29 AM (No. 584665)
When Collins retires the Bigfoot sightings in Maine will resume.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
cor-vet 10/26/2020 9:13:19 AM (No. 584670)
I wonder if she's sending the dems as many emails everyday as she sends me, asking for a contribution to save her Republican seat and thus the Senate.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
tsrtexas 10/26/2020 9:16:09 AM (No. 584679)
Susan, first you say you will not vote on a candidate this close to an election and now you say you will vote against the candidate. Which one is it? Either way you are gone I hope. You have been a disaster for the Republicans because you are not one. There are no "Fair and Consistent" decisions in these political times sweetie. You are either with one group or the other. You have made it quite obvious who you support!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
paral04 10/26/2020 9:23:37 AM (No. 584690)
What does she mean by "Fair and consistent?" Consistent in her behavior as a RINO? What is wrong with the republican Party in Maine? They keep nominating this traitor>
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
maryann4629 10/26/2020 9:24:56 AM (No. 584692)
Notice that she waited until after Murkowski said she would vote for ACB, thereby ensuring her confirmation, rendering Collins' vote unnecessary. Collins needs to vote "no," to bolster her re-election chances, since the Dems have had her in their crosshairs since her vote on Kavanaugh. What people who are cheering on her defeat seem to fail to realize is that we need EVERY seat in GOP hands, because we need to keep the majority.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 10/26/2020 9:29:53 AM (No. 584698)
I thought Collins was brilliant in her defense of Kavanaugh. I was happily shocked and surprised by that performance. And I absolutely understand why Mitch might give her a pass on this vote. But, what I don't understand is the actual vote. By not voting for Barrett, Collins turns off Republican voters, unless of course she thinks they have no one else to vote for. Many will just skip her name and continue down the ballot. But the Dems are not going to vote for her. Yeah, maybe a few here or there, but, that will probably be outweighed by Republicans skipping her vote.
The other thing about these politicians that makes Trump so attractive to us, here she is, probably at the end of her career, and she is willing to give up any principles she might have left just to stay in office. I know being a US senator is the best job on the planet. All show with zero responsibility, but to go out as such a coward. YIKES. Trump would never, ever do that.
These political and elected cowards are why we are fighting so hard to keep our beloved Republic.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 10/26/2020 9:31:41 AM (No. 584703)
It is so close to an election -- her term should be cancelled right now!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
DVC 10/26/2020 9:35:30 AM (No. 584711)
I don't understand how the Maine folks can be so leftist. She's voting her constituent's wishes, most likely, and they apparently are close to replacing her for not being far enough left, it would appear.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/26/2020 9:47:10 AM (No. 584729)
i have read that she has Parkinson's - she certainly has the tremors, but those could be caused by a syndrome called 'essential tremors.'
If she has Parkinson's, the medication can be extremely difficult to tolerate.
If she is voting agianst Barrett because she believes her constituents want her to vote that way, we should recognize that our system expects that.
She could have changed parties, like Jumping Jim Jeffords, but did not.
I will sit here today, and bask in the glory of an overnight Senate debate, structured by Mitch, and praise him for his leadership.
The hand of God may be guiding this nomination of Barrett.
now I await the November3 election, and pray that the nasty, egotistical McGrath be defeated in Kentucky..
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/26/2020 10:12:03 AM (No. 584758)
Fair and consistent? So that is what you want to call this Collins? I call it cowardice, I call it wicked, I call it not serving your nation. You have always been a total disappointment, and it is time for you and your quivering to go.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/26/2020 10:17:04 AM (No. 584769)
If she's upset with 'the process', why not just abstain? The result is the same but why vote with the Dems?
Collins is a 60's hippie that never grew up.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/26/2020 10:21:36 AM (No. 584777)
Most of us know the first sentence of this quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored
The first sentence applies to Collins. The rest seems to apply to our President.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/26/2020 10:30:43 AM (No. 584789)
has her Parkinson's progressed so much that she has lost her ability to see things logically? what a poor excuse for a political representative. she is not being "fair and consistent" whatever that means.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 10/26/2020 11:07:19 AM (No. 584838)
No surprise here. Romney put her up to it. She can be sure that Trump won’t be choosing her for a member of his new cabinet.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
rsgonner 10/26/2020 11:34:37 AM (No. 584897)
She will lose her Senate Race and any semblance of integrity. Angering the republicans in her state will probably make them vote for Trump and leave no mark in the Senate race. Just like a politician.....
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
fairplay 10/26/2020 11:46:50 AM (No. 584917)
Consistent only!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
radrelic 10/26/2020 1:16:00 PM (No. 585026)
Vanity stance?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 10/26/2020 1:32:58 PM (No. 585044)
Stinking political jerks
That’s why I voted twice for an
OUTSIDER!!!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Butch 10/26/2020 3:04:21 PM (No. 585126)
Note to Suzie: The Senate is currently controlled by the Republican Party, whose members were willing to fulfill their Constitutional duty to nominate a judge and (if the nomineee is accepted by the Senate Majority) to provide Advice and Consent, followed (in Judge Barratt`s case) by a vote to confirm. In 2016 President Obama fulfilled his Constitutional duty by nominating Judge Merrick Garland, who I`m sure is a fine judge and a great guy. Unfortunately for Judge Garland and for President Obama, the Republicans controlled the Senate and took a pass, which was (and is) their prerogative.
There`s no score to settle here, and no fairness and consistency" for any Republican to crow about! Leave that up the Senate Majority Leader and the President. By the way, a four-year-old "precedent" is hardly a precedent at all! Do you even understand Stare Decicis?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
swarfer 10/26/2020 3:05:30 PM (No. 585128)
There in no such thing asa four year old precedent. Her reasoning is pure political BS. Your are either for or against Barrett. Anything else is just an excuse. She didn’t even have the guts to give Barrett her due, a yes or a no based on qualification as judge. Typical of worthless, useless, spineless, run-to-lose-in-the-long Republicans. Romney is another example. It’s not a swamp out there, but a garbage heap or of politicians masquerading as honest, decent human beings. I expect such behavior, but when I see it from Republicans, I want to puke. There is no place for people like her anymore in the new Republican party. You’re either on our side or your a Democrat. Good buy, good riddance, don’t come back, ever.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Califedup 10/26/2020 3:15:34 PM (No. 585143)
Good riddance to this wrinkled, prune faced, Commie sympathizing witch who has done more damage in her role of a stealth democrat in the Senate.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
XCenturion 10/26/2020 7:44:12 PM (No. 585358)
So Collins voted for Kavanaugh but refuses to vote for a splendid (female) SCOTUS nominee like ACB. I realize Collins claims to be a Republican, but she has now shown her true RINO colors by voting with the Democrats. Hell even that reprobate Utah elected, Romney, said he's going to vote to confirm ACB. Too bad Mitch didn't lean on her more because she will more than likely be out of the Senate this next term.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
judy 10/26/2020 8:32:55 PM (No. 585423)
If you don’t stand with your party...step down....
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/26/2020 8:49:15 PM (No. 585448)
How is she being consistent as I believe that she voted for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh?
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
ConradCA 10/27/2020 3:05:37 PM (No. 586489)
We can’t be fair with the progressive fascists. They plan on destroying our country and liberty. They are the worst enemy our country has ever faced. They are more of a threat than the Communists and Nazis for which patriots gave their lives fighting. If we try to be fair we will lose everything because they won’t be fair. We need to be ruthless until they are utterly defeated.
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