Collins to Back Jackson for Supreme Court, Giving Her a G.O.P. Vote

New York Times ^ | 3/30/22 | Carl Hulce

[DoodleDawg]

Senator Susan Collins of Maine plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, ensuring that President Biden’s nominee and the first Black woman to be put forward for the post will receive at least one Republican backer.

After a second personal meeting with the judge on Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Collins said Judge Jackson had alleviated some concerns that surfaced after last week’s contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, when Republicans attacked the nominee for her record and grilled her on a host of divisive issues.

[politicket]

attacked. drilled.

No bias there. Nope. None.

[TnTnTn]

Destroy the legal system …heck it was on the brink anyway…

[wiseprince]

No 3 hour floor speech like last time?

[Quickgun]

Well, I’m not from Maine, but I’ve thought for a long time that Collins should be kicked out of the Republican party. But if you don’t vote for the lesser of the two evils, then you get the worst of the two evils. Hard to visualize that as showing disapproval....

[who knows what evil?]

...the Lord will make their scalps bald.

Just ask Mrs. Smith.

[JayGalt]

This is a special slap in the face for those that have claimed that Collins is better than a democrat in the seat.

[Engedi]

Nurkowski and Romney to follow to confirm. No surprise.

[frog in a pot]

Why is this woman in CONgress?
Because of the Maine voters.

Indeed, and typically it's voters who are fearful of straying from the government teat.

Maine is one of the eight states that spends the most on welfare per capita.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/states-that-spend-the-most-on-welfare
(NY, Alaska, Mass, Vermont, Minn, Delaware, NM, Maine)

[JBW1949]

“...Republicans would vote against the utterly pointless lynching legislation...”

You just know that the “lynching law” HAD to come about because of all the lynch hungry people in NASCAR who put lynch nooses on all the garage doors in the country....

[chopperk]

Collins and Jackson are both low IQ pols. People of Maine must be the same to keep Collins in office.

[chopperk]

Collins uses RNC money to get elected but votes Dem consistently. She should be forced to repay the RNC for the money she used to get elected.

[Fresh Wind]

As predictable as the sun rising in the east.

[DownInFlames]

Because of President Wilson and the progressives that passed the 17th amendment. When this passed, the states lost their voice control of the federal government.

[glennaro]

You must define "woman" first ... you un-woke heathen, you!
Cheers!

[jacknhoo]

I see what you’re saying. You’re saying that you’re like a drug addict. He keeps buying the drugs to make himself feel better but it only makes him feel worse in the end. So, to feel better, he goes and buys more drugs. But, again, in the end he feels worse.

You can’t keep doing the same thing that gets you the same bad results over and over again and expect to get better results. You can’t keep voting for Democrats/RINOs and expect to get a Republican.

That’s insanity.

[RoseofTexas]

We can never get up in the morning with a victory on our chest it’s always misery misery misery coming from our effing RINOS POS!! I hate them and I hope they all go through stinking hell. DC needs to be NUKED!!! This effing nation is so done! Stick a effing fork in her and dig a 6 foot hole she’s done!

[antidemoncrat]

Today’s Republicans are so screwed up I believe that party will soon be history.

[Agatsu77]

Why is that B^^ch still in office. What the hell is wrong with Maine?

[DouglasKC]

Yup McConnell publicly opposing it was confirmation that the Republicans were going to help. Mitch made the deal.

[nathanbedford]

You might well be right, Maine might be as lost a cause for conservatism as is California, but maybe not. The Republican Party is poised to change the electoral landscape if it doesn't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by abandoning the formula that so obviously works. Trump went a long way toward changing that landscape by appealing to the disenfranchised working middle class of the Rust Belt and Joe Biden and the radical Democrats in Congress have nearly succeeded in closing the deal for Trump.

It is possible that even Maine voters will turn in frustration to the Republicans. Much depends on whether and when a deep recession afflicts our economy. If Republicans are in control they must handle it right or be punished at the polls. If Democrats are in charge, the same applies but they have an advantage in that they will happily spend and spend. If Mitch McConnell has his way, Republicans will do the same. Which way is best for victory at the polls? That is an open question.

Apart from a recession the question remains, can Republicans win enough seats in Congress, particularly in the Senate, to exercise rinos like Collins, Murkowski and Romney? Why do that when these people at least vote for Republican leadership in the Senate which controls the flow of business?

Because even without a senator from Maine, the value of discipline in a party is vital to governing. The Democrats should have taught us conservative/Republicans that lesson a long time ago. In any event, we can expect to recover Senate seats in Utah and Alaska and in other states from which rinos have emerged from time to time.

In this case, I hope Romney and Makowski vote for confirmation because she is going to be confirmed anyway and we might as well have an issue to excite Utah and Alaska to do the decent thing when the names Romney and Murkowski come up.