Collins Sides with GOP Leaders on Kavanaugh Documents
Source: PoliticalWire
July 31, 2018 at 5:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 167 Comments
While Democrats are crying foul after Republican leaders angled to limit disclosures of documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughs past work, one of the GOP senators whose vote may be pivotal to his confirmation says shes just fine with it, Bloomberg reports.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters Tuesday that she has no objection to a decision late Friday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, to leave out of a federal document request all the paperwork and emails from Kavanaughs time as staff secretary to President George W. Bush.
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CincyDem
(6,385 posts)This is almost as surprising as Rand Paul's turnaround.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Not.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)fountainofyouth
(409 posts)Did ya ever get that vote on health care fixes that McConnell promised you?
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)I mean really. But I'm sure she'll stick to her ethics when it comes time to vote.
(Do I really need to dripping sarcasm icon?)
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Doitnow
(1,103 posts)PSPS
(13,613 posts)onecaliberal
(32,887 posts)Power 2 the People
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Hulk
(6,699 posts)Why do we keep trying to look to this repuKKKe congresswoman as anything other than a repuKKKe congresswoman. She is spineless, bends over backward for the party over country. Fuck her, and the horse she rode in on. Worthless reich winger with a pink hood.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)herding cats
(19,566 posts)She's a deep R through to the bone. Even, and especially, at times when she has room to do the right thing in the eyes of her constituency. She will still toe the line as she's told to do.
riversedge
(70,283 posts)gademocrat7
(10,665 posts)She will tow the party line.
HuskyOffset
(890 posts)The expression is actually toe the line.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)As an annoyingly proper-English nerd (and former proofreader) ,never caught that one. First time I realized that both make sense.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)jcgoldie
(11,639 posts)OMG what are the odds?!?
BumRushDaShow
(129,374 posts)when the stakes are high for their party.
Flake will also eventually fall in line too.
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)She talks the talk (moderate, soft-spoken, compromising), then walks right off the cliff.
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Susan Collins is such a goddamn fraud