One of the lawmakers on the hot seat ahead of the vote is Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who recently received a particularly unusual gift in an effort to sway her opinion.

A package of 3,000 coat hangers arrived at Collins’ office in Washington, D.C. -- symbolizing back-alley abortions that took place before they became legal with the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling -- in the hopes of convincing the pro-choice senator to vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.

sick bassards...[-(

DrafterX wrote:

that is very ugly.
She may be pro choice but seems to be leaning toward confirming him...from what I've heard.

frankj1 wrote:

BUT seems to be leaning toward confirming him??

Are you suggesting that you can't confirm unless the candidate is in lockstep with every issue?



Kavanaugh gets appointed, guess what happens?
Abortion remains a legal option.

You heard it hear first.

tailgater wrote:

Can't walk back the wishes of 63 million Americans. Can't walk back the results so far either despite the Kenyan King's latest lies he's telling.

People were fed up with career politicians lying to their faces. They elected Trump. Look at what he campaigned on. He's crossing them off one by one. Keeping promises he made on the trail. You can hate him or love him, but to feign that he's not living up to what he said he was going to do is just downright the wrong discernment he deserves.

I didn't vote for him the 1st time. I will the 2nd though. I don't know a single person that regrets their vote for him. I've heard from some on the Left that wished they had've.


https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-trumps-record-trumps-medias-spin-30757 

DrMaddVibe wrote:

I think people voted for Trump mostly because he wasn't Hillary.

rfenst wrote:

the key to winning modern elections is to get previously uninvolved voters to get off the couch and vote. Obama was successful with minorities twice. Hillary could not sustain that momentum.

She got many more votes than Trump overall, but did not work the geography intelligently.

A yuuuge part of Trump's win, considering electoral votes, was from the rust belt types (and pockets elsewhere in the same boat) who normally don't vote but were now stirred by enough passion and anger from the ongoing recovery bypassing them. Yeah, some got insurance, but few got jobs, or at least jobs worth having.

Things may revert however. Many of them have the same poor or non employment issues, and less have insurance...the question will be if they are still directing their anger where they did 2 years ago, or will they sit back on the couch?

frankj1 wrote:

I'm disappointed in this post.

First paragraph is fine.
Second is your way of saying "see! she got more votes!" You're better than that.
Third belittles American voters. Yes. It does.
And the last is twisting the facts. Americans are working like never before. There are half million open jobs and nobody to fill them. If people aren't working, they're either tied to young children or they aren't trying.

You might be right. They might be on the couch at the mid terms.
But I'm disappointed at your cynicism.

tailgater wrote: