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Collins expresses frustration over Democrats halting Senate business
washintonexaminer.com ^ | 5/10/17 | Kimberly Leonard

Posted on 05/10/2017 2:31:56 PM PDT by ColdOne

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1 posted on 05/10/2017 2:31:56 PM PDT by ColdOne
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They’re doubling down. The morons are actually doubling down. They’re destroying their own party.


2 posted on 05/10/2017 2:33:53 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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Because they get re-elected regardless of who is in power they are truly one party working for the globalist agenda and who they try to impress is the NYT and the WaPo.


3 posted on 05/10/2017 2:35:43 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: ColdOne

And as expected, the turtle allows this to happen. What a leader!


4 posted on 05/10/2017 2:36:01 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: ColdOne

Collins is so stupid she doesn’t know that democrats consider her their sworn enemy and will destroy anything and anybody to push their Marxist agenda to fundamentally transform our republic into Venezuela.


5 posted on 05/10/2017 2:36:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ColdOne

Well Suzy you don’t do a bad job yourself on holding up an agenda.


6 posted on 05/10/2017 2:39:21 PM PDT by Tac Double Tap (I'd rather die standing than on my knees begging.)
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To: ColdOne

This might have a silver lining. Will Senator Collins (Idiot-Maine) finally see the light? The dems aren’t going to give her anything for traitoring her own party, except to use it against her in the next election.


7 posted on 05/10/2017 2:41:38 PM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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Hard to imagine the Dems could lose Susan Collins.


8 posted on 05/10/2017 2:42:56 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Tac Double Tap

If I were one of those witnesses, I would check into Trump’s Hotel, stay a few days, then send the bill to Schumer.


9 posted on 05/10/2017 2:43:56 PM PDT by PSUGOP
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Perhaps, Ms Collins, you should stop siding with them so
often......they obviously don’t care what you think, unless you are agreeing with them.


10 posted on 05/10/2017 2:51:46 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: ColdOne

Then, you idiot, stop voting with them.


11 posted on 05/10/2017 2:54:24 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: backwoods-engineer

I know. Ain’t it great? Even some of THEM are beginning to realize it.


12 posted on 05/10/2017 2:55:37 PM PDT by NEMDF
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All these years the Senator has been playing nice with the Dems and they kick her in the teeth when they get a chance.

Wise up, Susan! They are not your friends and they never will be.


13 posted on 05/10/2017 3:04:51 PM PDT by TomGuy
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And as expected, the turtle allows this to happen. What a leader!

Just as a matter of curiosity, what would you have the Majority Leader do about this.

14 posted on 05/10/2017 3:26:58 PM PDT by etcb
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To: grania

No, she is from ME and will never “see the light.”


15 posted on 05/10/2017 3:29:37 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

If it was Collins business that was interrupted, it probably should be!


16 posted on 05/10/2017 3:46:56 PM PDT by Reily
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-- And as expected, the turtle allows this to happen. --

Seriously, not his fault. It is trivially easy for a single senator to disrupt regular order. What holds them back is peer pressure. When one party binds together, the peer pressure angle is gone.

The Senate being simultaneously "in session" and "nearly vacant" is done by unanimous consent.

17 posted on 05/10/2017 3:50:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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Just interesting, FYI, etc.

Republicans Use Objections to Stall Senate Hearings - March 24, 2010

18 posted on 05/10/2017 3:56:05 PM PDT by Cboldt
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Seriously, not his fault. It is trivially easy for a single senator to disrupt regular order. What holds them back is peer pressure. When one party binds together, the peer pressure angle is gone.

The Senate being simultaneously "in session" and "nearly vacant" is done by unanimous consent.

Somehow, I think that if Harry Reid were still in charge and the Republicans were trying this, he'd have changed the Senate rules to stop them toot suite. Similarly if the situation was reversed and Chuck Schumer was the majority leader, do you think he'd allow this to happen? He'd rewrite the rules (and the DemocRATs would pass the changes) faster than you could say "San Fran Nan".

19 posted on 05/10/2017 4:07:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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The Dems, being the party out of power, cannot “hold a hearing”. The media is just putting out fake news when they call Dem meetings “hearings.”


20 posted on 05/10/2017 5:31:05 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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