US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

We even got a notice from the high school principal!

i have the same thought. if they both go the wrong way, jfc

― Karl Malone,

uh my martinis are perfect

so Manchin's calculus is to vote the way Collins votes because her yes vote gives him cover to vote yes, right? so they will both vote yes

(apparently Graham has already "announced" that she will be a yes vote)

So he would get on the court thanks to a Dem. Who Trump and the GOP will still campaign against.

yr math is off there

if Collins is a yes, Manchin's vote doesn't matter

ah, I see. so he could vote yes but then he has cover to say he was not the deciding vote.

martinis at five at Soto Laird.

― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I wish, sincerely. We'll be raising a glass on the west coast.

phew. the jury did the right thing on Van Dyke.

The more I think about this the more I suspect Collins is leaning no? She’s deliberately positioned herself as the deciding vote, why grandstand like this if you’re gonna vote party line? It’s not like the choice is either Kav or some liberal judge...it’s him or someone who will vote the same way without the baggage.

fingers crossed

still

Coming after you on Twitter if you're wrong.

"why grandstand like this if you’re gonna vote party line?"

she had lunch with McConnell today. is she angling to get something from him?

a fun little detail - the Montana senator who has a wedding to go to this weekend (Daines) has been offered the services of a private plane back to DC to vote on Kavanaugh. the private plane is owned by Rep. Gianforte (the guy who physically assaulted a Guardian reporter and then was voted into office the next day by the highly intelligent citizens of Montana)

ew, that is a good detail

Reportedly Collins currently has a police detail. One benefit of waiting till the last minute is minimizing the number of people who want to kill her before she has a chance to beat the retreat.

any ILXers live in Maine?

she's placed herself on this pedestal

she's up now

i didn't know susan collins was basically emo philips

https://twitter.com/search?q=Collins&src=tren

this doesn't sound like it's going in a good direction

she had lunch with McConnell today. is she angling to get something from him?

Yeah, she might be stupid enough to try that after he already screwed her once (ACA vote).

ok, it's officially done

she had the fucking nerve to say "dark money" in association with anti-Kav forces

So that's that?

any ILXers live in Maine?

One of my best friends is from Maine. Trust me when I say the farther he can keep his family from the ballot box the better.

Never mind

My current roomie is from Maine and has otons of family still there. He seems to think she will be voted out now (2020). I am not sure of that.

242 years wasn't a bad run, all told.

just GET TO IT, collins

fuck

Is Collins an idiot? Sometimes I wonder if she or really any of these senators truly understand anything more than what it takes to get elected. Laws, news reports, controversies, the effects of their votes ... sometimes they act like they live in a secluded vacuum.

the audacity to talk about dark money, fuck you

I guess 240 is probably more accurate and feels like a slightly neater number.

damn it fuck this shit

she's babbling about Kav's opinions on the DC court supports her theory that he'll protect pre-existing conditions

hey everyone, she's read federalist no. 76 - she's given this issue deep thought

xxxp there's no necessity to understand anything else in order to perform the job, just depends on how you're placed in the political situation. some people need to understand, some don't.

lol this dumb ass just admitted that Kav and Roberts will keep precedents but gut them neatly

Yeah, it's one thing to support him, it's another to claim that all his most controversial positions are benign and ultimately to the benefit of the little guy.

xxp like, kavanaugh's assurance that something is settled law - surely she understands something more than that about how the court makes and tears down laws? but who knows

I am wavering between i)nothing in life mattering and ii) feeling good that I haven't been paranoid my entire life about how terrible people really are.

Like, Collins is babbling righteously, but disingenuously ignoring all sorts of shit. Like Garland.

silver lining: this seems likely to dull any supposed right wing voter push, now that they got their guy. and more likely to fan the flames of a left wing November blue wave.

i'll take what i can get, though even that i'm not sure about.

putting herself in the spotlight like this was a really stupid idea if this was the end game

loooooool

according to collins, kavanaugh's previous support for measures to protect the president from prosecution while in office means that believes that the president does not CURRENTLY have protection from prosecution while in office, therefore we don't have to worry about kavanaugh siding with trump on such a case

Susan Collins castigating everyone for opposing the nominee before he was even named, which is, of course what McConnell did immediately after Scalia’s death.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 5, 2018

All these assholes, from Flake to Collins, they seem to recognize that we live in remarkable, unprecedented times, then they vote and operate as if we are not teetering on the brink.