The Senate, Task Two!

[jaF0]

Dead heat on who gets to take Mitch out. Errr, on ... on, that is.

 

[JackLuis]

Susan Collins triggers outrage by claiming Kavanaugh’s anti-abortion vote wasn’t a threat to abortion rights

On Monday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) insisted that, while she supported the Supreme Court’s decision to block abortion restrictions in Louisiana, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent didn’t mean he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade — even though his desired ruling would have rendered it all but useless.

The new remarks from Collins, who cast one of the deciding votes to put Kavanaugh on the bench after lecturing reproductive rights activists they were overreacting, drew a fresh wave of outrage on social media.



Justin Satzman @jsatz23
@SenSusanCollins believes that making it 99.9% impossible for a woman to get an abortion is not a threat to Roe? Gullible does not begin to describe this woman.

Niki Winters @nikiw
She’s not gullible. She’s lying.


Sue Collins @cta_oh

Look, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve been lying to Mainers since before I was even ELECTED! I pledged to serve only 2 terms. Now I’m running for a 5th! I’m confused as to why people are surprised the difference between what I say and what I do. Suckers!https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...pledged-to-only-serve-two-terms-1338131011750 …

 

[JackLuis]

Joni Ernst downplays slavery on CNN: ‘We do have blemishes’

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Sunday both acknowledged and downplayed America’s racist history by saying that the country had “blemishes” in its past.

During an interview on CNN, Ernst was asked if she was comfortable with President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on monuments that celebrate Confederate history and the legacy of slavery.

“I truly do believe that we live in the greatest nation on the face of the planet,” Ernst opined. “And we do have blemishes in our history. And we need to come together and have some hard discussions about our past.”

Okay, how about last week? Last Month, the last 100 fucking years?

 

[JackLuis]

‘They are failing’: Nationwide Day of Action to target GOP senators for going on vacation as pandemic surges

Moscow Mitch and the minions! No one else will fuck them so they just fuck America!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s unpopularity could lead to purge of almost half of GOP’s female senators: report

Of the nine female Republicans who hold seats in the U.S. Senate, four could be looking for new jobs after November’s election as their allegiance to Donald Trump has dragged down their approval ratings and imperiled their re-election prospects.

According to Politico, the Republican contingent in the Senate is in danger of becoming overwhelmingly male and white with female candidates up for election this year struggling to hold onto their seats due to a president who is not considered strong on women’s issues.

Those GOP senators are Martha McSally of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine, Joni Ernst of Iowa and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia who is also being dogged by accusations of insider trading during the coronavirus pandemic.

"Trump Chump Cunts?"

Susan Collins refuses to say if she’ll vote for Trump as his poll numbers tank: report

Susan Collins had a 67% approval rating when Trump first took office — it’s collapsed to just 36% today

Well I hope she's learned her lesson now!

 

[YDB95]

Trump’s unpopularity could lead to purge of almost half of GOP’s female senators: report

I hate to have to come to Trump's defence on anything, but I don't know that Kelly Loeffler's political woes can really be laid at his feet. Marie Antoinette never really said "Let 'em eat cake," but Kelly Loeffler is the kind of person who you could imagine actually saying that. She's trump without the lip service to the long-suffering white working class.

As for Collins, if she really were the moderate she has always pretended to be, she'd probably cruising to reelection as usual. It's not Trump's fault she felt the need to carry water for him.

 

[JackLuis]

Kelly Loeffler Wants Atlanta Dream WNBA Team To Shut Up, Dribble, Maybe Tap Dance A Little

Georgia Senator and insider-trading Disney villain Kelly Loeffler is also co-owner of the WNBA team the Atlanta Dream. Tuesday, Loeffler sent a message via flying monkey to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert demanding that the women's basketball league keep its players from wearing warmup jerseys that read “Black Lives Matter" and “Say Her Name" (the latter is a reference to Breonna Taylor, who the police killed in her sleep). Instead, she'd like to see an American flag on all team uniforms and apparel so she never forgets what country she's in.

Loeffler argued that “politics" have no place in sports, because she's 49 and somehow never heard the name Muhammad Ali.

 

[Ziggins]

And the local candidates. I tried to pick someone for state representative. I did not find much beyond name and address for any candidate in either party.

 

[JackLuis]

More Senate Republicans Looking Like They’ll Have To 'Find Something New' In 2021

Democrats need to flip just four seats in November if Biden wins, and that's accounting for Alabama Senator Doug Jones likely losing re-election. There are multiple paths right now to fumigating the Senate. Arguably the most vulnerable incumbent Republican is Martha McSally, who can enjoy three more months of losing to Democratic challenger Mark Kelly. The entire country has suffered from Donald Trump's jacklegged response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Arizona's pain is recent and acute. Cook has shifted the Arizona from an Everything's Coming Up Martha! “Toss-Up" to “Lean Democrat."

Joni Ernst's bid to hold onto her seat in Iowa is also looking shaky. Cook has moved her Senate race against Democrat Theresa Greenfield from “Lean Republican" to "Toss-up."

David Perdue's Senate race is now a “Toss-Up" in the purple state of ... Georgia? Womp. Womp. Perdue wants to get Georgians back to work in the salt mines (that are filled with COVID-19). The state deserves better, and Jon Ossoff is a much better choice.

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis is polling behind Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham. Trump carried the Tar Heel State in 2016, but Biden is beating him there, as well, so he's not much of a lifeboat for the incumbent. Tillis released a plan for combating COVID-19 last week that was heavy on science and even suggested that we listen to medical experts. But he couldn't avoid racial scapegoating.

TILLIS: Now I will tell you I'm not a scientist and I'm not a statistician, but one of the concerns that we've had more recently is that the Hispanic population now constitutes about 44% of the positive cases, and we do have some concerns that in the Hispanic population we've seen less consistent adherence to social distancing and wearing a mask.

Moscow Mitch is nervous too!

 

[jaF0]

The only poll that matters is November The Third, but I have yet to see anything regarding McGrath.

 

[kissedcherry]

Cleaning out a pig barn...

I wonder how many on Literotica have ever been down-wind of a pig barn when the pig crap is being cleaned out. Mmmmm nice. As it gets stirred around the fragrance is intoxicating. So that is what comes to mind when I think about the Senate. And really the whole political circus. What a collection of power-hunger ego maniacs that care about their own power and wealth more than anything else.

The more that anyone tries to drain the swamp or clean the pig barn the more stink is going to rise to the surface. What a clusterfuck.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Burn it all down’: Conservative calls for purge of every one of Trump’s Senate enablers

A must read.

In a call to arms to conservatives, Bulwark founder Charlie Sykes said that it is not enough for Republicans to reject Donald Trump in November and that the president’s enablers in the Senate need to be sent packing too.

Taking issue with fellow Never-Trumper Matt Lewis, who writes for the Daily Beast and pinned the blame for the state of the nation on Trump but warned against making wholesale changes by replacing GOP senators, Sykes wrote ousting Trump is not enough.

“Let’s leave aside the question of whether the deaths of nearly 150,000 Americans can be considered a ‘lethal’ consequence,” of back Trump,” Sykes wrote, “Lewis is among the anti-Trump critics now warning against punishing the GOP too severely for its cowardice, lack of character, and submission to Trumpism.”

Asking, “Can you defeat Trumpism by defeating Trump but leaving his bootlickers in power?” Sykes was blunt in answering his own question.

“If the GOP does not somehow renew itself—by purging the foul air of its current corruption—it will find itself in the wilderness for the next 40 years as it tries to explain its history of Vichy Trumpism,” he wrote before praising Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and “smart, principled, competent Republican governors like Larry Hogan (MD), Charlie Baker (MA) and Phil Scott (VT)” for being shining lights during the pandemic disaster under Donald Trump.

“As for the rest of them,” he wrote, “Burn it all down.”

 

[bhurry]

I wonder how many on Literotica have ever been down-wind of a pig barn when the pig crap is being cleaned out. Mmmmm nice. As it gets stirred around the fragrance is intoxicating. So that is what comes to mind when I think about the Senate. And really the whole political circus. What a collection of power-hunger ego maniacs that care about their own power and wealth more than anything else.

The more that anyone tries to drain the swamp or clean the pig barn the more stink is going to rise to the surface. What a clusterfuck.

down wind from a 1000 cow dairy farm. empty the pit smell pretty rotten also. Your right.

 

[jaF0]

The poll contained disappointing numbers for Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Poor showings by the three in November could help hand the Senate back to Democrats, who lost their majority there in 2014.

Collins, who is seeking a fifth term, is trailing her opponent, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, by 47% to 43% with 6% undecided.

The poll showed Graham, who is seeking a fourth term, tied with Jaime Harrison, a Black lawyer and associate chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at 44% apiece.

McConnell was clinging to a 5 percentage point lead over Amy McGrath, the first female Marine to fly a combat mission. In his last election, McConnell cruised to victory with a 16-point margin.

https://www.courthousenews.com/incumbent-gop-senators-face-tight-races-that-could-reshape-senate/

 

[jaF0]

Will Putin's Bitch Mitch be Ditched?

Mitch McConnell

Favorable 25.6
Unfavorable 51.8 -

Down by -26.2

 

[JackLuis]

Will Putin's Bitch Mitch be Ditched?

Mitch McConnell

Favorable 25.6
Unfavorable 51.8 -

Down by -26.2

40 Million Cheer!

 

[YDB95]

Will Putin's Bitch Mitch be Ditched?

Mitch McConnell

Favorable 25.6
Unfavorable 51.8 -

Down by -26.2

They hate him in Kentucky, but I think they hate liberals, gays and feminists more, and after all, he does bring home the bacon. I certainly HOPE he loses, but I'll be very surprised.

 

[JackLuis]

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s seat moves further within Democratic rival Jaime Harrison’s reach: analysis

Ms Lindsey's sucking wind now!

“While there are still large hurdles that remain for Harrison to become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from South Carolina since 1998, it’s clear this race is becoming more competitive, and Graham faces an incredibly strong challenge,” Cook political analyst Jessica Taylor wrote Monday. “In the races in our Likely Republican column, this is also the one some national Republicans view as the more competitive. We are moving South Carolina from Likely to Lean Republican.”[

Graham, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, still holds an edge in Taylor’s estimation. But polls are consistently falling in favor of the underdog. She highlights a recent Quinnipiac University poll conducted July 30 through Aug. 3, which pegged the race at a statistical tie. Perhaps equally troubling for Graham, his approval rating was in the red, with 47% disapproving of his job performance and 43% approving of it./QUOTE]

 

[JackLuis]

How Susan Collins engineered the postal service disaster she’s now protesting

At this point, it should come as no surprise that the vast majority of Congressional Republicans have responded to the Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Postal Service with near silence.

The president openly admitted last week that he is blocking additional funding to the USPS to undermine its ability to handle the coming surge of mail-in votes this fall. U.S. mail delivery has also slowed down dramatically nationwide since his handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor who has been in frequent communication with the Republican National Committee, began instituting a raft of new policies for reasons of “efficiency.” These have included cutting overtime pay for postal workers, removing sorting machines from postal facilities, and eliminating mail boxes.

As it turns out, Collins is actually one of the members of Congress most responsible for the Postal Service’s devastation. Long before DeJoy started manipulating the USPS, Collins was at the forefront of a bill that crippled the agency’s finances.

In 2005, she sponsored and introduced legislation, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), that required the USPS to pre-pay the next 50 years worth of health and retirement benefits for all of its employees—a rule that no other federal agency must follow. As chair of the Senate oversight panel at the time, she shepherded the bill’s passage, along with her House GOP counterpart Tom Davis, during a lame-duck session of Congress. It passed by a voice vote without any objections—a maneuver that gave members little time to consider what they were doing.

Collins 5% behind her opponent now, so long Susan!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Arizonans are fed up’ with Trump and McSally — and Republicans fear they’ll cost the GOP the state

Arizona has been on the verge of turning into a blue state for years. Now even some Republicans believe that President Trump’s sagging popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a lifetime could flip the state to the Democrats.

Arizona has long been to Democrats what “Lucy’s football was to Charlie Brown,” wrote FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich. The party has spent millions trying to win the state and media outlets have argued that “this year” would be the year Democrats finally flip Arizona since at least 2004. It hasn’t happened. Democratic nominee Joe Biden would become just the second Democrat to carry the state since 1948 if he can pull off a win, and Arizona would have two Democratic senators for the first time since 1953 if Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican appointed to her seat by Gov. Doug Ducey, loses her race to retired astronaut Mark Kelly.

As Dem's organize the grass roots their chances improve.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Desperate’ GOP senator panned for stunt — race may now be ‘in the bag’ for Democratic challenger

On Tuesday, writing for The Arizona Republic, columnist Laurie Roberts slammed Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) for her “desperate” attempts to get voters’ attention as polls continue to show grim prospects for her.

“With the clock ticking and desperation growing, Sen. Martha McSally is now challenging Mark Kelly to debate her before a national audience,” wrote Roberts. “‘Mark is hiding from his record and radical positions because he knows how far out of step he is with Arizonans,’ McSally said, in a release. ‘I’m starting to think he might be scared of debating a girl.’ And I’m starting to think this race is in the bag. For Kelly, that is.”

In fact, Kelly has agreed to two debates already, wrote Roberts — but McSally’s demand for more isn’t surprising.
“McSally is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Kelly in an effort to avoid losing yet another Senate seat to Democrats,” continued Roberts. “The race has tightened in the last few weeks. But that’s because Kelly’s poll numbers have dipped, not because McSally’s have improved. And with early voting starting in just five weeks, McSally still hasn’t figured out a way to win back those moderate Republican and independent women who sent Sinema to the Senate in 2018.”

Now we just need Kentucky and South Carolina to go Blue!

 

[JackLuis]

Diane Does Good!

Senators call on Pentagon to reinstate funding for Stars and Stripes newspaper

Senators call on Pentagon to reinstate funding for Stars and Stripes newspaper
© Greg Nash

A coalition of Republican and Democratic senators are calling on the Defense Department to reinstate funding for Stars and Stripes, the editorially independent military newspaper whose future was put in doubt earlier this year after the Pentagon proposed shifting money away from the outlet.

In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Wednesday, the senators argued that funding for the newspaper represented a tiny fraction of the department's annual budget and that cutting it could have a "significantly negative impact on military families."

"We understand that DoD plans to cease publication of Stars and Stripes on September 30, 2020 and completely dissolve the organization by January 31, 2021 as a result of the proposed termination of funding in the fiscal year 2021 President's budget," states the letter, which was spearheaded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Signatories included Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a veteran, Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).

$15.5 Million ain't much anyway.

 

[JackLuis]

Senate GOP campaign arm invokes law-and-order message in new ad

The campaign arm for Senate Republicans is invoking a law-and-order message in a new ad released exclusively to The Hill as part of the GOP's effort to defend its majority in the upper chamber this fall.

The more than 2-minute ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), dubbed “Say No to the Mob,” comes amid nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality. The ad shows riots and protests in cities alongside clips of high-ranking Democrats, including presidential nominee Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.), encouraging demonstrations.

"While the Republican Majority is working to ensure law and order in our communities, Democrats are paying the bail of criminals and calling on supporters to create unrest in the streets,” NRSC spokesman Jesse Hunt said in a statement. “Democrat elected officials live in fear of their base, and their Senate candidates’ mere presence in the Senate would give the angry mob more control. The juxtaposition between parties could not be more clear - in November, a vote for Democrats is a vote for the mob."

"Vigilantes by Morning? " would make a nice C&W song title.

Stay home people, it'll be safer.

 

[JackLuis]

It’s time for voters to clean out the entire GOP: conservative

Conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has concluded that it isn’t just the president who needs to go, it’s all of his Republican enablers.

Rubin specifically cited Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who possesses a number of “disqualifying characteristics” like being a “congenital lying, racism, constitutional illiteracy, [and] conspiracy-mongering.”

“Ernst used to be considered a middle-of-the-road Republican — before she exonerated Trump for plainly impeachable conduct,” Rubin wrote. “Now, she sounds just like him. Iowa Starting Line reports that Ernst now seems to embrace ‘a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported.'”

“What may have started as a debunked conspiracy theory — that doctors are conniving to over-count patients — is now seriously propounded by a U.S. senator,” said Rubin.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, at the National Institute of Health, has said that if anything, it’s that COVID-19 deaths are being undercounted.

See Johns Hopkins# vs Worldmeter's #s.

World Meter 9-3-20 AM
Box Score
United States
Coronavirus Cases: 6,297,847

Deaths: 190,196

Recovered: 3,547,979

 

[JackLuis]

GOPer Cory Gardner put his party before the country — and now his career is ‘toast’: Conservative

On Saturday, writing for The Bulwark, conservative columnist Jonathan Last excoriated Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) for advancing the Republican Party over the interests of the country — and outlining how it will cost him his job in November.

“There’s new polling out today which suggests that Gardner isn’t just toast: The toast is on fire, the fire has turned the toast to charred carbon, and the remains of the toast have been shot into the sun and reduced to their component atoms,” wrote Last. According to the latest Morning Consult survey, Gardner is pulling only 39 percent of likely voters, and even doing worse than President Donald Trump — ironically, since, as Last noted, Gardner has staked his whole career on his loyalty to the president.

Good thing he's got that sweet government pension plan!