add to the list of collaborators. the regime will fall, and some of these dinosaurs will be still living. there must be a reckoning.
Where filibuster?
Anyways, this is only 20 minutes into the 2nd episode of the Season 2026 of House of Cards and the plot is already getting wilder and wilder. Can’t wait till what the writers come up with in Season 2028 Episode 11…
The Lafayette Square Coup?
“if it came to a vote” Filibuster still exists
Maine lugging around a record number of “Fell For It Again” awards with that POS senator.
But better still is anyone who believed the “You need 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate” line we’ve been swallowing since Clinton.
Maine lugging around a record number of “Fell For It Again” awards with that POS senator.
I’m not American so I’m probably missing something, but isn’t this a Republican who votes almost exclusively along party lines? So, a case of people getting exactly what they voted for?
I’m not saying she’s not a despicable arsehole, but it doesn’t seem like she hides it.
She’s one of a few the Republicans have had strategically vote against the party when her vote wasn’t needed to pass a bill. Basically her, Murkowski, and for a while McCain, until he really bucked the party with the ACA vote and became a pariah until his death.
The strategy being “pretend you’re not an evil fuckface to get more votes”, presumably?
Yes, in competitive states, they when by playing the reasonable centrist that swears they are willing to stand up to their party…
Never actually doing so when it could actually matter.
Partisanship is such a driving force in our politics that even someone who only bucks their party 4% of the time is considered “bipartisan”. I’ve seen reports in the media calling a vote “bipartisan” if it only gets two or three votes from the other side.
And yes, it depends on that person’s reputation. Since Collins is seen as a moderate, all it takes is her support on a bill to call it “bipartisan”. OTOH, Senator Rand Paul frequently votes against the Republican party line, but only because he is a batshit crazy libertarian. He can vote against a Republican bill, and nobody calls that “bipartisan”, I guess because both sides think he’s nuts.
So the news here is “Rebellious Republican didn’t rebel against Republican bill”?
Except “rebellious” means “still toes the line 96% of the time” and “Republican bill” means “whatever fucked up turd of an idea Trumps handlers have evacuated through that festering mouth-hole in his face”?
Yes, you understand that correctly. All I can say is that it wasn’t always this way.
I’m well aware - I have a pretty comprehensive understanding of American political history, albeit entirely gleaned from Day of the Tentacle, The Wire, and that Obama “HOPE” poster.
Collins regularly advertises herself as a moderate and makes a big show of complaining about the rest of the party to the media.
Even Mitch McConnell didn’t vote for this thing.
Collins is a sack of shit and must be another Russian asset.
She knows it gives her the best chance of being re-elected.
Do these people think they’re going live forever? Something twists the minds of everyone who gains power. They become absolutely incapable of giving it up voluntarily.
Truly - What do they care about what happens after they’re dead? … They’ll be dead.
They have no empathy towards anyone who will suffer the consequences because they won’t have to be the ones to deal with the fallout. “Fuck you, I got mine” is their entire strategy.
Fuck this old crone. Every one of these old establishment dems like schumer, pelosi and collins need to fucking die already. If you’re gonna sit in that seat and deny your constituents true representation until you die, then you might as well get it over with.
Thanks for literally nothing, you useless, feckless coward.
No argument about Schumer, et al. But Collins isn’t one of them. She’s, in fact, part of the actual pedocon party.
Bro I agree, and I say this with love, but Collins is a Republican
She’s a Repedolican, but I can see why you’re confused because everyone likes to pretend she’s somehow less extreme than the other ones. She’s not, just puts on a little show of “being concerned” about things, but always votes right along with the rest of them.
Pelosi retired
jfc she can fuck off and die already
This is why no Republican should be allowed into office, ever.
Even the “moderate” ones will betray America.
From the article.
According to a recent scorecard, Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time — the same rate as Mitch McConnell and two points above conservative Rand Paul.
She’s as moderate as Mitch McConnell
Both of our parties are unconstitutional private organizations, and both have been bought long before we were born
Democrats won’t save you
Meanwhile, Republicans are actively trying to kill you. Both sidesism only makes sense when both are equivalent threats, which is clearly not the fucking case.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck…
Perfect tombstone quote when this decrepit thing passes.
God I hate this broad
Of course she did…
A rotten cunt since the day she was born.
What this shit headline DOESN’T say is that this passing would require 60 votes, not a simple majority. Unless the GOP nukes the filibuster, which it doesn’t seem like many GOP-fuckwits like, they still won’t have the required votes to pass this.
Still, this is sobering that they have her 50th vote, and couch-fucker Vance’s “have you even said thank you once” 51st vote, if it were truly a tie breaker scenario.
What makes you think the Dems will filibuster? So far Schumer has capitulated every single time.
Not even Schumer is stupid enough to cave to “I lose my job forever.”
I think it’s more about calling her out.
Fair but it’s clickbait, which is shitty
How is it clickbait? It literally says the thing in the title
The implication is that it’s guaranteed to pass with her vote. That is the clickbait.
Writing “the 50th vote” instead of “another vote” or even “a 50th vote” implies that specific vote is more important, like reaching a threshold. At least that’s how I see it.
Correct.
A yes surely the rule of process that they can get rid of at any time will save us
