GOP's Susan Collins to back Tulsi Gabbard confirmation

[Efilroft Sul]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Monday that she will support Tulsi Gabbard to become director of national intelligence (DNI), giving her a key boost in her confirmation push.

Collins was considered a crucial swing vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is set to meet Tuesday afternoon to potentially advance Gabbard toward a floor vote. Last month, Collins had expressed reservations about Gabbard.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5124047-tulsi-gabbard-susan-collins-intelligence-committee-dni/

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Susan Effing Collins, everyone. Susan Effing Collins.

[D. Spaulding]

1. It's obvious now

The GOP in Congress are all cowed into submission. Expect no resistance at all from them.

[eShirl]

2. keeping in good with Trump

[Ocelot II]

3. Typical. She's "concerned," but once again she folds like a cheap lawn chair.

[AZ8theist]

17. Yes, but did she issue a WARNING???????

[GB_RN]

18. Pfft.

On behalf of cheap lawn chairs everywhere, I’m here to tell you that they resent the comparison: Cheap lawn chairs might fold, but they’ll at least do their job…if just for a little while. Susan “I’m concerned” Collins, on the other hand…

[spooky3]

4. Please, Maine, vote her out. Nt

[JBTaurus83]

5. I truly think Susan will lose

Her next election. We should be looking for a good candidate now. It’s probably one of our best opportunities for a pickup.

[walkingman]

14. You would think so wouldn't you? But in reality incumbents win about 95+ percent of the time.

Sadly there are a lot of voters who generally don’t know much about the candidates, so basic name recognition, incumbents typically have that advantage. Also, they have a financial advantage. Those seeking special favors and even just your everyday voters tend to vote for a proven winner.

IMO, she has been wishy-washy for a long time - lots of times she plays the game of voting against her party to gain favor from her constituents - all the while knowing that her vote will not determine the outcome anyway - pure politics.

I suspect that her position on the Senate Intelligence Committee meant that she would not dare to buck the Party.

Disappointing but the real world.

[benfranklin1776]

44. I absolutely agree.

She will be particularly vulnerable given her repeated willingness to betray the people of Maine in slavish devotion to the cult of the orange traitor.

[Jakes Progress]

65. That's why she sells out.

She gets a couple nice cushy corporate board seats to ease her retirement.

[madaboutharry]

6. Susan Collins is the punchline of her own joke.

Doesn't she know that her "reservations" and "concerns" that always turn into "falling into step with the party line" has gotten to the point where thinking people not only do not take her seriously, but laugh at her foolish antics.

[Autumn]

7. Anyone who bought her concern is a fucking fool. That shtick has gotten so

fucking old it's older than her ass.

[milestogo]

8. She's such a tease.

She acts all concerned but she usually votes with the good ol boys.

[Wiz Imp]

9. Gabbard being confirmed will bring about the greatest national security threat this country has ever faced

Hell, we will no longer have any national security. Voting to put a Russian asset in charge of the nation's secrets is treasonous. Every single person who votes for her should be arrested for treason.

[Seinan Sensei]

66. If I were a CIA deep-cover agent in a country overseas

I’d be hightailing my happy ass back home about now

[DSandra]

10. Remember everyone, what we are dealing with now is the end result of Social Media's psychological manipulation...

of the voting populous. Zuckerberg and others opened the floodgates for misinformation and disinformation to pollute the minds of voters in America, leading to them doing what was previously unthinkable.

[3catwoman3]

11. Was there ever any doubt?

Why does she even bother?

Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football, yet again.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. She is worthless.

True to form, she bends the knee for the RW extremists.

Sickening.

[samsingh]

13. i don't think susan collins has ever done the right, courageous thing

[Jit423]

15. And she thinks Snowden is a traitor??? nt

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Susan,

you ignorant slut............you can't possibly believe, along with several others that they will EVER allow you into the 1%, no matter what you do for them....... do you?????

[turbinetree]

19. To everyone in Maine ................she basically supports a traitor................are you "concerned"............

are you going to call this wretched person's office and ask her to resign.........are you going to show up at her senate office in Washington, or her offices in Maine ...............does she not know what it means to defend and protect the Constitution............apparently not............

[Vinca]

20. Can't she at least pretend to be "concerned?"

[republianmushroom]

21. She is and always has been a republican.

[Hugin]

22. Trump for sure learned his lesson this time!

Why doesn’t Collins just mail every last secret to Pootie herself?

[Tarc]

23. As she always does. Clutches the pearls, expresses "concern"

then licks the boot.

[HereForTheParty]

24. If she won't fold, I doubt any will

maybe Murkowski?

[SunSeeker]

25. Fuck you, Susan Collins, you pathetic traitor.

Hiw does she keep getting reelected??

[Blue Owl]

26. Spineless fuck

[Skittles]

27. fucking disgusting

[Orrex]

28. Well no shit

The only time she ever takes a "principled stand" is when the vote will be won or lost regardless of her stance. She risks nothing, and she falls in line like all the others every time.

Fuck her.

[Freethinker65]

29. When National Security secrets get sold by Trump and America's weaknesses get exposed

Trump will point the finger at Gabbard. He will say he never should have trusted a Democrat.

Trump walks away with the money, Gabbard and the U.S. take the fall.

[dem4decades]

30. Maybe it's time to admit this country sucks, and Maine too.

How many elections are we going to think Maine and this country are going to do the right thing? They elect Collins in Maine, Cruz in Texas, every asshole in Florida, and fuck the fly over country. We're not the best country on earth, I don't know who is but it's not us.

[LoisB]

31. Of course but is she backing her with concern?

[surfered]

32. Why not just make Putin DNI?

[johnnyfins]

33. Can I call her the "word"?

Because that's what she is.

[johnnyfins]

34. Im off this forum for a while...

See you next Tuesday...

[Seinan Sensei]

48. I see what you did there

Well-played !

[pfitz59]

35. Will the people of Maine never tire of this worthless woman?

She is so weak and wobbly.

[patphil]

36. Was there ever any doubt?

[FBaggins]

39. Yes... as recently as a few days ago

Her odds of confirmation had fallen to almost 50/50 on some sites - with Collins at the front of the list.

Now she’s a near certainty

[patphil]

60. I was referring to Senator Collins aupport. She does this all the time; feigns concerns and then folds.

The one thing you can rely on is her changing positions at the last minute.

[FBaggins]

63. I was too

I week or so ago the betting odds implied a greater than 50% chance that her nomination would fail... which necessarily means that they expected four or more republicans to vote against her... and a greater than 90% of losing at least one republican.

Any list of likely defections had to include Collins at or near the top. So yes - it was not expected just a few days ago. Which is why her “concerned” falling in line so dramatically changed the odds to a near-certainty

[czarjak]

37. Falling in line is what they do.

[DFB]

38. But her concerns

please think about her concerns

[GoYouPackersGo]

40. I think she might have even been troubled.

But she always falls in line. Always.

[kellytore]

41. Susan reminds me of a person that spends one hour looking

over a menu in a restaurant and ends up ordering the same thing she always orders.

[Montauk6]

42. Maybe we should just start calling her "Lindsey Collins," smdh...

[Ray Bruns]

57. I call her "Windsock Suzy". Whichever the way the wind is blowing, that's the direction she is pointing to.

[Firestorm49]

43. Collins - a standing joke.Supporting the "dog snuffer".

[ancianita]

45. The whole Republican caucus is Susan Collins -- lights are on, nobody's home.

[travelingthrulife]

46. why is this news? she always caves.

[Sober Retiree]

47. Babylon Sister

I thought she was nodding no, she was really saying yes. Shake it baby.

[Pris]

49. Call her office tomorrow and pass this on

https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact

Portland

One Canal Plaza Suite 802
Portland, ME 04101
[phone]
GET DIRECTIONS
Washington, D.C.

413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
[phone]

[bmichaelh]

50. Past is Prologue

From Shakespeare:
Past is prologue.

Don't want to hear from her later that she was misled.

[dchill]

51. Susan is ALL THE WAY out of the closet, now.

I'M concerned!

[AZJonnie]

52. I literally would've bet $1000 to win $1 that if Gabbard's nomination came down to Collins' vote

She would vote for Gabbard.

[Walleye]

53. I sure hope the Republicans don't go around bragging about how they won the Cold War

Because they just surrendered to Putin. The United States has lost Cold War two

[PuraVidaDreamin]

54. He's got something on her.

No other explanation.

[GreenWave]

55. Remember when Joe Mansion campaigned FOR her?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/11/joe-manchin-endorses-susan-collins-1271151

[Paladin]

56. Why would we expect anything better from Susan Collins? (nt)

[Best_man23]

58. Someone made this comment about Collins back during the Justice Beer Pong hearings

They said Susan Collins is like that friend you meet for lunch who always orders the Club Sandwich, commenting that she should really order something else next time. Then, the next time the two of you meet for lunch, she orders the Club Sandwich.

Frankly, I expect nothing from her but blind compliance to her cult, eh...party.

[lark]

59. She is a disgusting pretend human being.

Only the alien R fascist inside her always wins out and she approves of whatever stupidity tsf promotes.

[Quanto Magnus]

61. Of course she is....

This shtick is getting old.

Declare that you have concerns, or are disappointed.... then you vote for said shitty person anyway. Quite frankly she is worse than MAGAts who are out with their MAGAt-ness....

[AdamGG]

62. She's running for re-election in 2026

Ads should start running in Maine NOW to tie her to this.

[NH Ethylene]

64. Some things never change. n/t