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(5,695 posts)pamela
(3,469 posts)I think he knows something.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Blaukraut
(5,695 posts)If there are witnesses, they can claim it was fair.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)I don't think the outcome was ever in doubt. The most vulnerable Republicans got to pretend that they care for their constituents and Collins got political cover. But the end result is the same as it was ever going to be.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Wonder if she will back track tomorrow?
JDC
(10,135 posts)From McConnell I'm sure.
Along with a chunk of cash.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)RandySF
(59,438 posts)TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)RandySF
(59,438 posts)Grown2Hate
(2,013 posts)There isn't a spine among them.
crickets
(25,987 posts)*sigh*
Afromania
(2,771 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)not, by the time you got your belt loose it would be full to the brim. I don't expect Republicans to call witnesses. They will put on a show and make the vote close, but witnesses is too dicey for them. Like you, I will lose bowel control if they prove me wrong.
marmar
(77,097 posts)... voting yes makes her appear to be reasonable. She was, is and always will be a fraud.
DarthDem
(5,257 posts)Exactly.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Collins' vote is meaningless. If she's "yes" on witnesses, testimony and evidence, it's because her vote doesn't matter one way or the other.
Nailed it.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)It's truly wild as fuck that the Republican "victory" is about NOT calling witnesses to explain what happened!
Joinfortmill
(14,481 posts)woodsprite
(11,931 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Its easy to pretend to be brave.
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)Same with that Mormon bishop
58Sunliner
(4,419 posts)MontanaMama
(23,357 posts)From her handler.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)I have a feelin' in my bones it ain't gonna over till it's over...
I cannot readily explain.
Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)Do we not believe it possible for the scales to fall from one's eyes?
For the light of right to illuminate the lost?
Nah, I'm just kidding. They've all got together and worked this out. She was told what to do by the GOP. They want to save her seat, and they already have the votes they need.
DarthDem
(5,257 posts)At a certain point you just have to give up on someone who continuously insults your intelligence over and over again with the same play while expecting you to believe it. The media isn't quite there yet, but I hope Mainers are.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)She'll only commit to it if she knows her vote won't matter and it won't win.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,678 posts)we got a one week phony investigation wink wink !!!
The plan is still to steamroll the will of the voters, great job
Mission accomplished !!!
Ding dong, Dump is still impeached and he is guilty as sin. As soon as he is out in November, we should perp walk him in NYC, remember how nice the dems were to Nixon, we better not do that again.
Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)and she can look like she at least tried to her voters. If her vote mattered for the outcome, she would have voted no.
They're all a bunch of fucking crooked, money grubbing scumbags.
polichick
(37,152 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,734 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,973 posts)... for witnesses... then, she will vote to acquit Crooked Donald. She wants to look "fair and balanced" to her voters. I hope they see through the charade. She hopes he and she both win - and approve more Supreme Court Justices.
eShirl
(18,505 posts)Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)The whole fucking thing makes me sick.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)This show by collins is particularly egregious because it's meant to give people the impression senate republicans are reasonable and that there's a faction that's willing to buck trump, to lull people into believing that not all of them have gone full on authoritarian, when in fact they have done just that.