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BREAKING: Susan Collins will vote to confirm extremist John Ratcliffe as Trumps National Intelligence Director who is known for pushing far-right conspiracy theories.
RETWEET if you support Democrat Sara Gideon as she runs to beat this Trump puppet and flip the U.S. Senate!
Susan Collins Needs to be GONE in 2021!
marble falls
(57,427 posts)texasleo
(11,298 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)exponentially Better!
Mahalo, marble falls~
Bettie
(16,144 posts)Even for a millisecond? Susan always does what the turtle tells her to.
Celerity
(43,693 posts)Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Wednesday that she will support Rep. John Ratcliffe's (R-Texas) nomination to be the next director of national intelligence.
Collins's support all but guarantees Ratcliffe will have the votes necessary to advance out of the Intelligence Committee with a favorable recommendation.
"I interviewed him at great length over the phone when we were out of Washington," Collins told The Hill. "I asked him then and again yesterday a series of tough questions about whether he would be independent, present unvarnished analysis to the president and Congress, and he said he would."
Asked if she was supporting Ratcliffe's nomination, she replied, "I am."
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Cha
(297,935 posts)and I SO hope Collins goes DOWN in November, I have given money to the Dem frontrunners in most of 13 flippable Senate seat races.
I am still beside myself that the following flat out refused to run, especially Tim McGraw and Sibelius as those are two open Rethug seats and they were probably the one Dems who could have won.
TN (Tim McGraw)
KS (Sebelius)
GA (Special election) (Yates) Abrams as well, but I guess she is dead set on either VP or a 2022 Gubernatorial rematch with Kemp. We have 3 decent candidate all going for the same (the Regular election against Perdue) seat, so one of them should have slid over and tried to knock out that fuckstick Doug Collins.
Right now I think we lose Doug Jones BUT we flip SIX seats
CO
AZ
MT
NC
ME
IA
Which gives us a 52-46 majority.
If Sibelius and McGraw had run, I would say we flip 8, and Yates maybe 9.
The regular GA seat could also go our way, as one of Jon Ossoff, or Teresa Tomlinson, or Sarah Riggs Amico could possibly beat Perdue (he is weak, and Yates or Abrams would have smashed him IMHO), but they are starting to go a bit negative on each other now in the primary. I can hope the party can unite around the winner.
Top Democrats in Perdue race face sharp criticism in debate
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/top-democrats-perdue-race-face-sharp-criticism-debate/VJ0YRpiABSwuzzbGJRKqtJ/
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)rules from the bench in exactly the way his previous statements would suggest.
So there's that.
DFW
(54,480 posts)He rules from a nicely appointed office. In Ratcliffe's case, he won't rule much at all, being, as the Russians say, "stupid as a cork." He'll learn his scripts and do as he is told, or he will have a shorter term at this post than Scaramucci did as communications director.
Actually the biggest irony of all is giving the title of Director of National Intelligence to someone who has none.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)is trying to pack our courts with.
You're right of course. Thanks.