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Collins to vote against Patel nomination
The Hill ^
| February 20, 2025
| Rebecca Beitsch
Posted on 02/20/2025 8:36:00 AM PST by rdl6989
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she would vote against the nomination of Kash Patel to serve as the FBI director, citing a string of political comments that call into question his ability to apolitically lead the bureau.
Collins noted recent actions at the Justice Department and FBI, from prosecutors resigning after facing pressure on how to handle certain cases to FBI agents facing firing over their work on Jan. 6 cases.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: fbi; fbidirector; kash; kashpatel; patel; rino; rinos; shockedface; susancollins
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RINOs gonna RINO.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:36:00 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:36:44 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: rdl6989
Collins and Murkowski have been carrying the RATS water for years.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:36:54 AM PST
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: Godzilla
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:37:25 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
To: rdl6989
Nobody cares.
All Trumps nominations have gone through. This last one will also.
So much Drama.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:38:17 AM PST
by
MotorCityBuck
(Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
To: rdl6989
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:38:36 AM PST
by
alstewartfan
(Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
To: rdl6989
Women in Congress...BAD idea.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:38:53 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
To: Ann Archy
Thanks you once again, voters in Maine !! Sadly if it’s not A RINO like Collins, it will likely be someone much worse !!
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:39:14 AM PST
by
DrHFrog
To: rdl6989
Maine has RCV for the same reason Alaska has it...
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:39:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: rdl6989
I am shocked! The FBI couildn’t catch a cold.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:40:03 AM PST
by
FrozenAssets
(You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
To: rdl6989
“Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)”
Not totally giving her a pass but she’s walking a tightrope, what with representing Maine and all......that state is not exactly red.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:40:51 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: GOPJ
Will this matter? Given Mitch is a likely no,it will be up to JD Vance to break the tie,and confirm Patel.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:40:59 AM PST
by
buckalfa
(They say nothing is impossible, yet I accomplish nothing every day.)
To: who knows what evil?
Women in Congress...BAD idea.
Yea, but how do you explain Durbin, Schumer, Warner and all the other dumb A** male congress critters.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:41:32 AM PST
by
DrHFrog
To: rdl6989
“political comments that call into question his ability to apolitically lead the bureau.”
As opposed to all those “apolitical” Biden appointees that she didn’t have any issue with.
To: GOPJ
Did it matter for the other nominees?
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:42:01 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: rdl6989
Scared of what he will find out how much her hands were in the till? Likewise with Murkowski, and definitely McConnell.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:42:14 AM PST
by
Eli Kopter
(Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
To: rdl6989
Susie’s gone full retard again.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:42:38 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
To: DrHFrog
To: buckalfa
“Given Mitch is a likely no,it will be up to JD Vance to break the tie,and confirm Patel.”
Never fear, Fetterman will save us! /s
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:43:20 AM PST
by
PermaRag
(Facts, context, and more facts)
To: mass55th
And don't forget Mitch. He'll probably vote against Kash.
This looks close. J.D. may have to break the tie.
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posted on
02/20/2025 8:45:21 AM PST
by
RoosterRedux
("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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