Extra - American Spectator: "How Not to Impeach a President" - "Arrogance and incompetence were all the spiteful Dems had to offer."
Saturday, February 01, 2020
Get over it
Federalist: "Yes, Trump’s Acquittal Is Real, And It’s Spectacular" - "The most amazing thing about Democrats and their allies in the media is that they never actually lose. Any time it seems like they lose, it’s actually the result of cheating and chicanery."
Extra - American Spectator: "How Not to Impeach a President" - "Arrogance and incompetence were all the spiteful Dems had to offer."
Extra - American Spectator: "How Not to Impeach a President" - "Arrogance and incompetence were all the spiteful Dems had to offer."
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You might want to go lightly on the glorious total victory celebration until Wednesday, November 4. Why do you suppose Susan Collins needed that McConnell hall pass to painlessly "break with" Republicans?
Job well done! Three years, tens of millions of dollars spent on investigations, a show trial that may guarantee Trump's reelection...and you've succeeded in causing Susan Collins to "break with" Republicans in a vote on witnesses. How much more do you think you would have had to do, to get her to "break with" Republicans on this Wednesday's vote?
Susan Collins' break with the Republicans is the worst hypothetical thing to happen since CJ Roberts was overruled on witnesses.
The make-believe "break" is the point. Impeachment is very, very bad for Susan Collins. Collins needed that permission to cast her irrelevant sham vote because her polling within Maine has cratered, she's losing the money race, and worst of all, her once resilient political persona of "concern" has become an object of ridicule. Go ask Karl Rove about the effect of successfully attacking a candidate at their strongest point.
Unless Collins picks things up, she will be outraised by Democratic opponent Sara Gideon, despite Collins' four-term incumbency and lengthy head start in donations.
Gideon is on pace to raise nine times as much money than Susan Collins’ opponent did in 2013-14. Just Sara Gideon’s direct fundraising advantage over Collins, if it continues at the current rate, will amount to more than the total amount that Senator Collins’ entire 2014 campaign raised. (This doesn't include the additional crowdfunded $4 million that will be released in June to whichever Democrat wins the nomination.)
Sadly, Susan isn't as fortunate as you two. She can't just hand-wave her problems away on a message board. For once, her concerns are real. At last, her trademark furrowed brow is sincere.
And Collins isn't even the GOP Senator most likely to lose their upcoming election.
a show trial that may guarantee Trump's reelection
Oh no, "may guarantee"! That's the very scariest kind of guarantee!
"We may be going down for our inept, clownish impeachment of Trump, but we're bringing Susan Collins of Maine with us!"
Federalist: "Yes, Trump’s Acquittal Is Real, And It’s Spectacular"
The GOP's spines are thoroughly sponge-worthy. ("Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it.")
And have you seen Republican fundraising totals? There's shrinkage, Jerry! SHRINKAGE!
Then you have the generic ballot. No wonder two dozen more GOP minority Representatives have slammed the table and announced, "I'm out!"
Meanwhile on Twitter, the anguished squeal of Pigman cries out! Pigman makes all of his shirts (and pants) puffy, but at least he doesn't have man hands.
Senator Susan Collins:
"There's nothing holding me in place! I’m flippin’! I’m floppin’!"
Senator Lamar Alexander:
"The president asked a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent, and withheld United States aid to encourage that investigation. Not that there's anything wrong with that."
President Donald Trump:
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon..."
Mitch McConnell is master of his domain. But all indications are that Election Day may be a festivus for the rest of us.
Meaning of Life, then: 42
Meaning of Life, now: Susan Collins of Maine
"But all indications are that Election Day may be a festivus for the rest of us."
This must have been written before the Gallup poll today.
"Unless
She will be
If it continues"
As I like to say: all of the Democrats' victories are in the hypothetical future.
The 2018 midterms are not in the hypothetical future.
They're why your golden retard got impeached.
Oh, it's totally OK because the Republicans are going to take back the House in 2020 and expunge the impeachment.
Because *anything* can happen if you have imagination!
Well, it turns out Susan Collins of Maine lost her nerve in the end. But not Corpus Delecto!
Susan Collins Regrets Saying She Believed Trump Has Learned Lesson
On Wednesday, Collins told a reporter from Maine outlet WGME-TV that she used the wrong verb when discussing the potential impact of impeachment on the president. A better word, she decided, would have been “hopes.”
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If yesterday was like every other day, Susan Collins' campaign got outraised by Sara Gideon again.
The growing disparity in the two candidates' financial support might potentially guarantee a 100% possibility.
Susan Collins of Maine must have damaged Trump with that remark even more than she would have with a "guilty" vote.
She's damaging herself, nitwit. And it's not like she wasn't politically damaged going into the impeachment.
On the one hand, it's not entirely Senator Collins' fault because her multiple 2020 problems offer no good choices. But on the other hand, ha ha ha ha!
How to win votes:
Collins admits comments about Trump learning a lesson are 'aspirational'
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Wednesday acknowledged that her stated belief that President Trump had learned a lesson from impeachment was "aspirational," saying that she "may not be correct on that."
..."I hoped that the president would’ve learned from the fact that he was impeached by the House," Collins said, adding that parts of Trump's July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were "wrong." ..."The president [asked a] federal government to investigate a political rival. And he should not have done that. And I would hope that he would not do it again," she said.
Asked if she received any assurances from Trump about his future conduct, Collins said that she had not spoken with Trump throughout the Senate trial. When pressed on why she believed he'd a learned a lesson then, Collins said, "Well, I may not be correct on that."
And again, Collins may not be among the top 3 Republican Senators most likely to lose reelection this year.
But she's a four-term Senator who had always gotten bipartisan support. She won her last election by a 37% margin.
Watching Susan Collins and the GOP have to spend at least 50 million dollars, just to have a 50/50 chance of retaining a Senate seat that has been Republican-held for 91 of the last 97 years? And which Susan Collins easily retained for just $5 million one cycle ago? Come on, that's FUNNY!
Unless you're a Republican candidate for the House who won't be getting that money. No wonder two dozen incumbent GOP Reps have quit already. Unlike Iowa, they can count.
Susan Collins of Maine ought to get some advice from Doug Jones of Alabama about handling a sticky situation like this.
"The growing disparity in the two candidates' financial support might potentially guarantee a 100% possibility."
Yes, it clearly worked out for Senator Beto O'Rourke.
Unlike Iowa, they can count.
You mean, "Unlike Iowa Democrats, they can count." You sound like Squaw Warren blaming America for her campaign's blatant racism.
You mean, "Unlike Iowa Democrats, they can count."
It took 16 days for the Republican Party to figure out that Rick Santorum had won the Iowa GOP caucus, and change its declaration.
Yes, [having the most money] clearly worked out for Senator Beto O'Rourke.
Was that the election where, in a zany non-Beto coincidence, O'Rourke received the highest percentage of the vote of any Democratic Senate candidate since 1988, and the Democratic field running for the U.S. House got their highest percentage of the state vote since 1992?
In the same state where six GOP Congressmen have quit in advance of the 2020 election? Following the six who'd quit during the 2018 cycle? That kind of turnover in a party stronghold is normal, yes?
Rome was not sacked in a day.
Of ¢our$e, ¢orrelation i$ not ¢au$ation.
Susan Collins of Maine ought to get some advice from Doug Jones of Alabama about handling a sticky situation like this.
OH DAMN SON, MIC DROP TO THE EXTREEEME.
Doug Jones is going to lose his seat. Susan Collins is now more likely to lose her seat than keep it.
Doug Jones has been a Senator for 2 years. Susan Collins has been a Senator for 23 years.
Doug Jones will get little support from the opposing party's voters. Susan Collins' entire political persona is predicated on receiving bipartisan support from voters.
The Alabama Senate seat was always a rental for Democrats, and that only because Alabama Republicans nominated a pedophile.
In case you missed the post you were replying to, the GOP has held Susan Collins' Senate seat for 41 years, and for 91 of the last 97 years.
But yeah, “cry about Doug Jones, boom.” I don’t know how I’ll recover.
If she wins, you may survive by reminding yourself that Susan Collins of Maine will at least not be serving as your President for another term. Donald Trump Sr. will be.
Fun Fact: The most recent day that Trump's average disapproval rating was below 50% was March 14, 2017.
We're coming up on an anniversary!
91 of the last 97 years, that's gonna be a tough one to swallow. But at least Suddenly Second Susan isn't feeling all alone.
Politico: House Democrats drowning GOP in money chase
House Democrats are clobbering their Republican challengers in the fundraising race, dramatically reducing the GOP’s chances of winning back the majority.
The roughly four dozen most endangered House Democratic incumbents raised a collective $28.5 million in the last three months of 2019, a staggering total that is nearly twice the sum of all of their Republican challengers combined, according to a POLITICO review of the fundraising filings.
This drastic disparity, which House GOP leaders have deemed an all-out crisis, throws the Democratic advantage into stark relief: 32 of the 42 swing-seat Democrats raised over $500,000 last quarter and 36 started the election year with at least $1 million in cash on hand. Of the over 120 Republicans who filed to run against the so-called frontliners, just six had cleared that fundraising threshold, and three had that much in the bank.
Before one of you find me out, I must shamefully confess that I've committed an inexcusable oversight.
A Republican has held Susan Collins' Senate seat for 155 of the past 163 years.
Fun Facts:
The most recent day that female unemployment was lower than now was sometime in 1954.
The most recent day that Hispanic unemployment was lower than now was...never.
The most recent day that black unemployment was lower than now was...never.
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