If anything comes out of this impeachment, I hope it is the end of this idiot.
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If anything comes out of this impeachment, I hope it is the end of this idiot.
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SFAW
Christ, what an asshole.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
she doesn’t seem nearly nervous enough to me, but WTF do I know?
alikins
Her quote sounds like it was lifted directly from the National Enquirer.
cmorenc
Susan Collins is the ultimate concern-troll. The media has let her get away with her faux-moderate schtick for years.
dww44
Wonder what she said in that tweet to get Roberts to react so quickly! What else did Nadler say other than the fact that Trump is a liar who lies every day and lies all the time that would have precipitated her writing that note.
She really revels in all the attention she gets, doesn’t she? I’ve been very tired of her schtick for a very long time. I certainly hope the voters of Maine are and will show her the door next November.
JWR
@dww44: After Ted Cruz “the ooze”, Susan Collins gets my vote as (one of) the slimiest of Senators.
West of the Rockies
@dww44:
Has Roberts responded? I hadn’t heard that part.
Major Major Major Major
I wish everybody just stop paying attention to her.
Biscuits
Cover up Collins
leeleeFL
My dislike for this person knows few bounds. She is such an annoying and aggravating POS
MaryLou
@West of the Rockies: He chastised both sides for insufficient civility in the discourse.
dmsilev
She’s a knave, not a fool.
MobiusKlein
@alikins:
Perhaps there are some witnesses the Senate would like to hear from to answer those questions.
West of the Rockies
@Major Major Major Major:
Ditto. She’s like a side dish of frozen corn: there, but not worth mentioning. (In her case, it’s over-salted, cold corn. A weird analogy, I know, but still…)
West of the Rockies
@MaryLou:
Oh, I thought that was a first day admonishment. I didn’t know Collins was the instigator.
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies: I’d go with over-ground chicken. It’s bad.
Cacti
It really doesn’t speak well for Maine that they’ve been fooled for so many years by this preening phony.
hitchhiker
What’s infuriating is that those comments from Nadler are being routinely reported as a “misstep” by the House managers.
The House managers were given about 10 minutes’ notice as to how much time they’d have, when it would happen, and on which days. They sat there listening while trump’s lawyer lied repeatedly to the faces of the Senate about what happened during the House investigation.
Then one of them gently suggested that this lawyer was “mistaken,” and he has as of tonight neither apologized nor admitted his “mistake.”
Then the Republicans chose to refuse to consider the question of whether the managers would be permitted to bring witnesses and documents to make clear to the public that their case was even stronger than it appeared. That there was no room at all for doubt that trump did it, knew it was wrong, and tried his best to keep the public from finding out.
They’ve made this case brilliantly, clearly, and with appropriate deference and rigorous attention to the facts and evidence for the last three days.
But, oh gosh! There was a “misstep!” Oh, NO! SUSAN COLLINS IS OFFENDED because someone noticed that Republicans are engaged in a coverup, and so she wrote a note to the Chief Justice, who indulged her.
If I didn’t already hate her, this would be enough. These people have their heads so far up their own heinies that they’ve lost all sense of how they come across to normal Americans.
Mr. Kite
Ceterum censeo, ZergNet delenda est.
James E Powell
@Cacti:
Are they fooled? Or is Collins doing exactly what they want a senator to do? That is, vote just like all the other Republicans, but be nice about it.
billcinsd
@dww44: Nadler said that the Republicans were involved in a cover-up
NotMax
@Alikins
Binders full of questions?
Cacti
@James E Powell:
I’ll go with fooled, since they consistently vote blue in Presidential years.
piratedan
In previous threads i have earnestly suggested that we round up this crew and shoot them into the sun… in light of their behavoir over the last week… i think a desolate ice flow in the arctic is a more effective solution… perhaps they could talk about the climate change hoax as a way to pass the time
H.E.Wolf
Sara Gideon, the Democratic Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, is running for Sen. Collins’s seat.
https://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/sara-gideon-20
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Tons of traitorous Trump trash?
JaySinWA
@NotMax: That’s probably Romney’s response. Collins is always on the margins
ETA or should I say she is always marginal?
JWR
How about this. during the Republican response, a note from one of the Dems, reading:
That oughta do it.
mrmoshpotato
@JWR: Fan of Russthuglicans whining about civility?
SFAW
@JWR:
Roberts would admonish the Dems for being shrill (or whatever).
NotoriousJRT
@dmsilev: Oh, don’t underestimate her fool quotient. It is substantial.
NotoriousJRT
@Cacti: Don’t get me started on Maine voters. (Cough) Paul (cough) LePage.
Ruckus
@SFAW:
As if that hasn’t been obvious for years now.
She said she is still going to vote even though the “trial” is a scam. OK that’s my description not hers but still that’s the gist of her comment. She knows it’s a scam, she knows it’s bullshit but she’s going to vote anyway. She could abstain if it was truly against her principles. But then she’d have to have principles in the first place and we know how that adds up. Zero.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
Would that we could. But not paying attention to her hasn’t cost her anything, she managed to keep getting elected. I’d bet that is going to be more difficult this time around. Because she’s being noticed, not being allowed to hide.
Heywood J.
Do your duty, Maine — flush twice.
Martin
@piratedan: I would just like to point out the difficulty of shooting anything into the sun. The amount of delta v needed just isn’t worth it.
Might I suggest a nice domestic volcano. Surely there’s a pagan god in need of some sacrifices.
Mary G
She’s just doing her usual pretense of being reasonable and moderate before voting in lock step with Moscow Mitch. So happy to see that approval rating in the toilet.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Mr. Kite: Obligatory Latin pedantry: If you start a sentence with “Ceterum censeo”, you’re going to want to follow it up with the accusative, because you’ve already got your subject with “censeo”, which is in the nominative and translates as “I opine”. So you’ll want either “Ceterum censeo ZergNet esse delendam” (“Furthermore, I opine that ZergNet must be destroyed”) or just “ZergNet delenda est” (“ZergNet must be destroyed.” I’m sidestepping the issue of the declension of “ZergNet” because it’s not actually a Latin noun, so it’s utterly beyond me how to handle that… and I’m also treating it as a feminine noun, as “Carthago” and “factio Republicana” are).
Alternately, you can just copy what I’ve written at the end of all of my comments for the last six months or so (short version “factio Republicana delenda est”… although “Ceterum censeo partes Republicanas esse delendas” – short version “Partes Republicanae delendae sunt” – might actually be a better word choice. “Partes” is plural of “pars”, but I’m informed that as a plural, it corresponded roughly to our current meaning of “party”, while “factio” only came to mean “party” later. This makes sense from an etymological standpoint – it’s clear that “pars” is the linguistic ancestor of “party”, while “factio” is the ancestor of “faction” – but is mildly confusing from a grammar one. Latin is just a confounding language in general).
In any case, I’m not exaggerating with the Cato paraphrase. The whole Republican Party apparatus needs to be completely destroyed, the crops burned, the fields salted, the ashes scattered to the four winds. Nothing must remain.
Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.
Just One More Canuck
@(((CassandraLeo))): my daughter has her Latin final this morning – I’ll show her your post to help her prepare
Steeplejack (phone)
@(((CassandraLeo))):
Pedantic ovation. ???
NobodySpecial
@Mr. Kite: The Zerg are effective, and led by a human, therefore better than the GOP.
Soprano2
@hitchhiker: It really, really, really, really pissed me off that the press gave so much attention to this “incident”. They acted like nothing else happened for the whole day. They all led with it as the story of that day of the trial. I think it soothed their “both sides” tic; after a whole day of listening to the House managers set out how Trump had violated his oath of office, it must have made them feel really good to be able to soothe it.
low-tech cyclist
After Collins’ performance before the Kavanaugh vote, where she sacrificed whatever shreds of integrity she had left at that point, anyone who held out any hopes that she’d be any sort of honest juror now had to be fooling themselves.
That speech was her coming-out as a Trump wraith. She doesn’t have the strength of character to de-wraith.