Give 'em all the boot...
Posted on 10/15/2017 11:15:03 AM PDT by Mariner
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Sunday that former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon's rhetoric about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “not helpful.”
“This is not helpful or appropriate at all. Obviously Mr. Bannon has the right to support whomever he wants to support,” Collins told ABC’s “This Week.”
“But I think his rhetoric is exactly what the American people are tired of. They don’t want this hyperpartisanship. They want us to work together and they want us to get things done.”
Bannon has vowed to challenge the Republican establishment in the 2018 midterms and put up primary challengers against GOP senators.
Collins slammed Bannon’s “over the top rhetoric” about McConnell as “not helpful.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Hey grumpy old lady....YOU AREN’T HELPFUL!!! except to the Democrats.
The potted plants in Susan’s office(s) are the safest potted plants in the country.
Because flatlined RINOcrats keep voting for them.
Of course it is not helpful to the Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
They have spent 30 years encouraging 30 million people to move here illegally and they do not want us to send them home.
Well, Susan, check out the following Bannon statement:
""We’re either going to be the country that was bequeathed to previous generations and to you, or we’re going to be something else," . . . valley of decision . . . ." - Steve Bannon
He's correct.
Below are the words of the Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 Inaugural Address. Jefferson laid out what might be considered to be an appropriate description of the philosophy and role of an American presidency:
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural
I live in Maine and I can’t stand Collins.
In 2014, when she ran for re-election, I wrote in the name of someone else.
She wins because the RATS here in Maine run a throw-away moonbat female state senator to run against her. I have lived her for 25 years and I never heard of the candidate (s) the RATS pick, but it’s always a left-wing obscure female, every six years. Collins ends up winning the election by default.
I hope Bannon targets her RINO a$$ when Collins runs again in 2020.
I hope Bannon goes after Collins big time.
Collins is a useless POS that offers no help to
ANY American. Hate talking like that
about a woman.
Be vewy, vewy quiet! ‘We The People’ are hunting RINOs!
(Collins? THAT’S YOU!)
Winning, winning, everywhere.
Bannon is a true patriot of the likes of Adams, Jefferson and Frederick Douglass. The latter for you ‘dead white men’ bogots.
These people like Collins aren’t prepared for what’s coming their way in 2018...
They are living in denial...
Someone should send her a picture of Eric Cantor...
LOL ... x 1000 :-)
She is not interested in working with Trump to get things done that the people want. What a hypocrite.
A herd of Rinos charge Steve Bannon. Too bad he is not in the Trump administration any longer.
Did it ever dawn on this twit that we are tired of their help?
No, Susan, what would really be helpful, would be a repeal of the seventeenth Amendment.
Thus speaketh a RINO from Maine.
You know what - or who - is not helpful? Susan Collins. Mitch McConnell. John McCain. Etc....
Mitch McConnell to voters: we cannot do anything with only one half of one branch of the government (the GOP House).
Mitch McConnell to voters: we cannot do anything with only the legislative branch (a GOP Senate and House). We need the executive.
Mitch McConnell to voters: we have the House, the Senate and the Presidency. But don’t expect anything to get done.
Yertle to Turtle and all RINOs must go!
Sink her ship to bannon!
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