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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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To: goodnesswins

You have a damn good point there!


81 posted on 10/08/2018 2:51:00 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: dead

Is that midget DeBlasio’s wife? LG should have picked her up and tossed her.


82 posted on 10/08/2018 2:54:03 PM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: drpix

Great copy! Good job!


83 posted on 10/08/2018 2:57:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: simpson96

AWESOME!


84 posted on 10/08/2018 2:57:51 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: dead; Lazamataz

Protesting Cavanaugh?
With a photoshopped Gilligan’s Island snapshot?

Laz would not hit them.


85 posted on 10/08/2018 2:58:16 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: dead

Two bumps up!


86 posted on 10/08/2018 2:58:50 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Ancesthntr

It’s the public part I was objecting to. Not the suffering. :)


87 posted on 10/08/2018 2:59:13 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Collins will be all over her like white on rice.


88 posted on 10/08/2018 2:59:24 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: freedomlover

Great one!


89 posted on 10/08/2018 3:03:00 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: freedomlover

You’re right. It was a must watch. I watched it twice!


90 posted on 10/08/2018 3:10:02 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: tomkat; Interesting Times

Great post .. bravo .. and thanks :)


I appreciate it.

I also appreciate that interesting times means well - it truly is sad to see adults carrying on like spoiled rotten children...but my perspective is that by carrying on in such a fashion they destroy the attractiveness of their sick ideology. For that, I am thankful, and I pray to God every single day that this continues until the sickness of collectivism disappears from human consciousness.


91 posted on 10/08/2018 3:17:07 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks. See my #91. The public part makes their success less likely...so it is necessary for the public good, like vaccinations. No one LIKES getting treated like a pin cushion, but we understand that it is necessary for our long-term health.

Oh, and the suffering makes the pain MUCH more bearable - joyful, even.


92 posted on 10/08/2018 3:19:40 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: gogeo

Really? I figured Lindsey was just superimposed on a Picture of the participants from the Feminazi Riot at the Capital.

At least it wasn’t Amy Roloff.


93 posted on 10/08/2018 3:29:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Liberal women who believe it’s ok to murder their own child (their very own flesh & blood) should never be trusted at all costs.

They are more genocidal than ISIS.


94 posted on 10/08/2018 4:56:56 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: freedomlover

That was great. Lindsey has been set free by McCain assuming room temperature.


95 posted on 10/08/2018 5:07:16 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ( Trump is The Storm)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Wait,,,
WHAT?


96 posted on 10/08/2018 5:23:29 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: dead

Re: photo of Lindsey Graham—digging the angry midget/dwarf woman with the green hair!!!! All three ring circuses must have midgets!!! LMAO !!!


97 posted on 10/08/2018 5:30:00 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: simpson96

“For the women who opposed Judge Kavanaugh - maybe five or six maximum - many of whom had traveled to Washington from all over the country - in reality from San Francisco... (their brooms were registered in California) “


98 posted on 10/08/2018 6:46:01 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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