Stephen King: IF Susan Collins votes to confirm Kavanaugh & IF she runs for re-election-2 bigs ifs..

[kpete]

@StephenKing

IF Susan Collins votes to confirm Kavanaugh, and IF she runs for re-election—two bigs ifs—she will be defeated. It would be unwise for anyone to mistake how angry most Americans are at the way this is being railroaded through.

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[BootinUp]

1. Agreed. Nt

[roamer65]

2. Stephen is right.

The next Senator from Maine will be a Dem.

[maveric]

17. Perhaps Mr. King will run?

Wouldn’t that be something.

[Me.]

3. KR

[sheshe2]

4. K&R

[wryter2000]

5. I'll bet he'd put some money behind that

He's one of the good ones

[lunatica]

6. And since when are constituent voices synonymous with bribery?

What is she thinking? How strange!

[luvtheGWN]

8. Didn't she just marry a fellow a few years ago

who is quite wealthy, and with dubious connections that would basically mean she has to abide by Dolt's wishes? I'm betting she has no intention of running again.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. Yep...

... a marriage of convenience.

[Meadowoak]

27. I'm sure it wasn't for the sex.

[Bayard]

7. Stephen is

The Man!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

9. He could always write a book about...

... oh, nevermind. You know what I mean.

[BigmanPigman]

10. The other senator in Maine just said he is voting NO.

Sen. King is an Indep. and announced this last week. I called him to thank him on Thurs. and have called Collins several times. Next week I am calling RW deep red, pseudo Christian senators and pretend I am a die hard Evangelical who believes "Kavanaugh is a sinner in God's eyes and my fellow Christians in my community are in agreement that he does not belong on the court due so his un-Christian behavior". I know many of them are hypocrites who "really don't care" so I need to play that card for them.

[jaysunb]

26. LOL ! n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

38. wonder if that would work with Rafael Cubanadian and Cornyn here in TX?

Probably not since I have written and called many times only to receive a generic thank you email.

[BigmanPigman]

39. Call the two Senators in Texas.

They both will get to vote. I call reps in all the states and both parties all the time. Call the members on the Judiciary Comm. too. Especially Grassely and Hatch. With midterms coming up they need to be concerned about reelections for the GOP. Here is their contact info...
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

[qazplm135]

12. I suspect she realizes

the jig is up and she isn't running again...or will maybe try and run for governor after laying low for a couple of years.

[DFW]

13. This is just a hunch

But my guess is that if Collins votes to confirm, instead of running for another term in 2020, once the noise starts to fade, she retires with a whole bunch of money thrown at her from some fictitious "job" that keeps her living in a style she would like to get accustomed to.

[elmac]

15. That would be my bet

or maybe her buddy putin can help her out of the election funk.

[elmac]

14. there is a 99.99999% chance that Kavanaugh will be confirmed

and it wouldn't surprise me if one or two Dems vote with the fascists. Its just the way it is. We were warned years ago that the fascists would load the court with rightwing nutjobs just as soon as the could, and they will. Elections have consequences.

[DFW]

16. It the steady drip of nasty information about Kavanaugh becomes a steady flow, maybe not

It ain't over 'til it's over.............

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. ain't over 'til it's over

Thanks for pointing that out.

It surprises me that so many on DU consider Kavanaugh a done deal before it's a done deal, even as the drip of information continues and as the disfavor by citizens increases. And then there are DU'ers like BigmanPigman above -- gives me hope!

The biggest weapon we have is noise. Not all GOPers are scurrying off to retirement. They need to understand how pissed off so many people are about this process.

Also:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211102387
Senate DC phone directory [phone].

[fallout87]

32. Unless that steady drip has something earth shattering

in the next 4 days, he will be confirmed. The vote is on the 20th.

[spanone]

18. K&R...

[duforsure]

19. Any Senators who votes him in will see

The 75% of the American people against his nomination will react harshly against them in Nov..

[INdemo]

20. Senator Collins and Lisa Murkowski

are not the only Senators we have to be concerned with.

There are Senators Donnelly, Doug Jones and Manchin.
I called Senator Donnelly's office voiced my no opinion and got a reply (email) with a long drawn out explanation of his interview with the nominee and I took his explanation as a Yes...Hope I am wrong

Red State Democrats are more or less Republican Lites but we still need them to count toward a majority.
But its too damn bad a Senator will put politics before the good of our Country.
That is not what our Constitution is all about.
We all know They are Voices for the people. If their constituents as a Majority want a NO votes than they are committed to vote NO.

[RiverStone]

22. What leverage do we have against a red state Dem?

If any of them vote for Kav and flip the court rjghtie crazy for a generation, I say they are gutless sellouts of their party and values.

Yet, besides being judged by history, what can we the people use as leverage other than shaming them as idiots?

I'd rather preserve integrity on the SCOTUS even if it costs them their election.

[INdemo]

31. The Red State Democrats were responsible for voting to

weaken the Dodd-Frank bill,voted no to allow much less expensive pharmaceuticals to be purchased from Canada and the list goes on.

They care about Republican votes in their State because they need them to win re-election..and don't care about losing the Democratic vote because they know Democrats will still vote for them because they want a majority.

[C Moon]

21. Not if Putin promised her a win in the election.

'Cuz we haven't done a DAMN thing about election irregularities, and how Trump was appointed president.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. Hasn't Maine been embarrassed by their politicians enough ?

[MadDAsHell]

24. This is going to be the GOP's ACA. We paid dearly for the way that was ultimately passed...

losing thousands of seats across the country, and then the Presidency, over the following 6-7 years.

If they ran this through, this will burn them even more.

[INdemo]

33. We lost becasue Democrats shied away from Obama in 2010

We lost because Democrats allowed the Republicans to blame the high deficits on them that was fueled by W's actions and was necessary for recovery.
Democrats have this thing about being bullied by Republicans and don't say a damn thing. They got the shit kicked out of them during 2010* with false accusations and they wanted to maintain the nice guy approach...
With this Kavanagh nomination though I see a lot of fight by some and others are just going through the motions
Republicans tells the same lie over and over and soon even some Democrats start believing them.

[uponit7771]

37. +1

[secondwind]

35. but I don't think we rammed this through, at all.. There were 100's of town hall meetings all that

summer. And a lot of debate back and forth.

[MadDAsHell]

40. America's Bitter Pill has a lot of great insight into how it was passed.

Candidate Obama promised something like 8 times that all negotiations on the bill with the major players (pharma, hospitals, medical device makers, etc.) would be televised on CSPAN. In reality, the bill was formulated like every other bill: in closed door meetings with lobbyists. America’s Bitter Pill provides incredible insight into what giveaways were promised, what tit-tat arrangements were made, etc.

I’m not knocking the bill itself, but from a perspective of how it was formulated and who was promised what, the record shows that it’s not really up for argument that it was one of the least transparent bills of all time. And that burned us big time, especially after all the promises of “this bill will be different.”

[Scurrilous]

25. K&R

[quakerboy]

28. Which is irrelevant

The right is not planning to play fair by democratic rules or process

If they hold power, they will consolidate that power in any way necessary. Elections are already skewed about as far right as mathematical tricks will allow. Think what happens when the Supremes are unaccountably hard right.

Or in other words, they are betting on ending the rule of law and democracy, not on continuing to manage to game the system.

[Honeycombe8]

29. If she doesn't vote for him, that means she's leaving politics or the Repub Party.

Because she can't stay and not vote for him. There is no doubt the Republican Party has made this quite clear to its senators. You either vote for this chance-in-a-lifetime, or plan to leave the Party.

The Democratic leadership SHOULD likewise be that tough.

That's how important this is.

[lark]

34. She's a coward so won't run for Senate again.

She was expected to run for governor, but since she's getting paid off by Koch (or some other oligarch) she may not need to now. I hope she runs and gets defeated. I hope a relative or friend needs an abortion and can't get it because of Kavanaugh, she needs to feel the pain she's causing others with her repug party before country attitude.

[Achilleaze]

36. republican enablers of Dirty Donny & KGOP cronies will...

pay the price for their betrayal of American democracy...