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Losing Hope as Susan Collins Spoke (liberal tears - plus photos to caption)
New York Times ^ | 10/7/2018 | Damon Winter

Posted on 10/08/2018 1:21:27 PM PDT by simpson96

On Friday morning, Senator Susan Collins of Maine said that she would declare later that afternoon whether she would confirm or oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. For the women who opposed Judge Kavanaugh, many of whom had traveled to Washington from all over the country, her decision was their last hope. By 2:30 p.m., half an hour before she was due to announce her decision, Collins’s office on the fourth floor of the Dirksen Senate building was filled with protesters, most of them women, and members of the press.

The crowd was overflowing into the halls and stretching close to the entire length of the building. The women began quietly to sing the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.”

When Collins began speaking in the Senate, they fell silent. A woman held a phone to her ear and relayed the remarks word for word to the crowd. Collins’s statement was hardly spontaneous. It was measured and deliberate. As it became clear that she was going to support the nomination, people began screaming at the television. “You’re done,” one woman shouted.

By the time I arrived in the grand, sunlit atrium of the Hart Senate Building where much of the opposition energy had been focused these past two weeks, the mood was entirely somber. Collins had just ended her nearly 45-minute statement with a vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. The lines sung by the women outside Collins’s office still rang in my mind:

We shall overcome. We’re on to victory. The truth shall make us free. Someday.


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1 posted on 10/08/2018 1:21:27 PM PDT by simpson96
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Believe all women...even when they are lying!


2 posted on 10/08/2018 1:23:23 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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If RBG retires or assumes Room Temp, they will go absolutely berserk........................


3 posted on 10/08/2018 1:24:16 PM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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4 posted on 10/08/2018 1:25:14 PM PDT by DannyTN
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5 posted on 10/08/2018 1:25:24 PM PDT by dead
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😭
6 posted on 10/08/2018 1:25:46 PM PDT by Lent
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Nice professional Soros signs. Anyway, Cannot wait for Susan Rice to run against Collins, LOL


7 posted on 10/08/2018 1:25:51 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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“If RBG retires or assumes Room Temp, they will go absolutely berserk........................”

Nasty old crone would never retire with Trump in office. So, I’ll take the latter.


8 posted on 10/08/2018 1:26:54 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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I have fantasies of Ginsburg running over Breyer in the USSC parking lot. Gun it, granny!


9 posted on 10/08/2018 1:27:02 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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Notice all the professionally made signs, with the same color and font.

Soros spent freely on this loss.


10 posted on 10/08/2018 1:27:03 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (Disarming Liberals...Real Common Sense Gun Control!)
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Why is there a picture of the Gilligan Island crew in that woman’s hand? Survivors??? OMG...these people are certifiable.


11 posted on 10/08/2018 1:27:29 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: simpson96

“There’s a reason you aren’t married.”


12 posted on 10/08/2018 1:27:40 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: DannyTN

The gif in post 4 is an all-time great, but in this case it is probably in the most appropriate thread for it, ever.


13 posted on 10/08/2018 1:27:59 PM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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It’s distressing to see these misguided people suffering so publicly every time the president wins. It would be much more seemly if they suffered in private.


14 posted on 10/08/2018 1:28:52 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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Liberals are incapable of using logic or they wouldn’t be liberals.


15 posted on 10/08/2018 1:29:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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All of those cats alone in their apartments....so sad.


16 posted on 10/08/2018 1:29:28 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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17 posted on 10/08/2018 1:29:56 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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Get off my Lawn and stay out my Elevator.


18 posted on 10/08/2018 1:31:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: goodnesswins

It’s just possible that it was photoshopped.


19 posted on 10/08/2018 1:31:19 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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I believe survivors.....
Even if the survivors are lying about being survivors.
I think I get it.


20 posted on 10/08/2018 1:31:21 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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