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  3. 3.

    alikins

    Her quote sounds like it was lifted directly from the National Enquirer.

    “I already have a list of questions in the margin of the extensive notepad that I’ve been filling up every day of questions that I’d like to know the answers to. Now, maybe they’ll all be answered,” she said. “But I would doubt that.”

  4. 4.

    cmorenc

    Susan Collins is the ultimate concern-troll.  The media has let her get away with her faux-moderate schtick for years.

  5. 5.

    dww44

    Wonder what she said in that tweet to get Roberts to react so quickly!  What else did Nadler say other than the fact that Trump is a liar who lies every day and lies all the time that would have precipitated her writing that note.

    She really revels in all the attention she gets, doesn’t she?  I’ve been very tired of her schtick for a very long time. I certainly hope the voters of Maine are and will show her the door next November.

  13. 13.

    MobiusKlein

    @alikins:

    I already have a list of questions in the margin.

    Perhaps there are some witnesses the Senate would like to hear from to answer those questions.

  17. 17.

    Cacti

    It really doesn’t speak well for Maine that they’ve been fooled for so many years by this preening phony.

  18. 18.

    hitchhiker

    What’s infuriating is that those comments from Nadler are being routinely reported as a “misstep” by the House managers.

    The House managers were given about 10 minutes’ notice as to how much time they’d have, when it would happen, and on which days. They sat there listening while trump’s lawyer lied repeatedly to the faces of the Senate about what happened during the House investigation.

    Then one of them gently suggested that this lawyer was “mistaken,” and he has as of tonight neither apologized nor admitted his “mistake.”

    Then the Republicans chose to refuse to consider the question of whether the managers would be permitted to bring witnesses and documents to make clear to the public that their case was even stronger than it appeared. That there was no room at all for doubt that trump did it, knew it was wrong, and tried his best to keep the public from finding out.

    They’ve made this case brilliantly, clearly, and with appropriate deference and rigorous attention to the facts and evidence for the last three days.

    But, oh gosh! There was a “misstep!” Oh, NO! SUSAN COLLINS IS OFFENDED because someone noticed that Republicans are engaged in a coverup, and so she wrote a note to the Chief Justice, who indulged her.

    If I didn’t already hate her, this would be enough. These people have their heads so far up their own heinies that they’ve lost all sense of how they come across to normal Americans.

  20. 20.

    James E Powell

    @Cacti:

    It really doesn’t speak well for Maine that they’ve been fooled for so many years by this preening phony.

    Are they fooled? Or is Collins doing exactly what they want a senator to do? That is, vote just like all the other Republicans, but be nice about it.

  24. 24.

    piratedan

    In previous threads i have earnestly suggested that we round up this crew and shoot them into the sun… in light of their behavoir over the last week… i think a desolate ice flow in the arctic is a more effective solution… perhaps they could talk about the climate change hoax as a way to pass the time

  28. 28.

    JWR

    How about this. during the Republican response, a note from one of the Dems, reading:

    “Dear Chief Justice Roberts, in this great hall of the Worlds Most Deliberative Body, could you please tell the Republicans to stop lying their asses off? Thx.”

    That oughta do it.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    @SFAW:

    As if that hasn’t been obvious for years now.

    She said she is still going to vote even though the “trial” is a scam. OK that’s my description not hers but still that’s the gist of her comment. She knows it’s a scam, she knows it’s bullshit but she’s going to vote anyway. She could abstain if it was truly against her principles. But then she’d have to have principles in the first place and we know how that adds up. Zero.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Would that we could. But not paying attention to her hasn’t cost her anything, she managed to keep getting elected. I’d bet that is going to be more difficult this time around. Because she’s being noticed, not being allowed to hide.

  36. 36.

    Martin

    @piratedan: I would just like to point out the difficulty of shooting anything into the sun. The amount of delta v needed just isn’t worth it.

    Might I suggest a nice domestic volcano. Surely there’s a pagan god in need of some sacrifices.

  37. 37.

    Mary G

    She’s just doing her usual pretense of being reasonable and moderate before voting in lock step with Moscow Mitch. So happy to see that approval rating in the toilet.

  38. 38.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @Mr. Kite: Obligatory Latin pedantry: If you start a sentence with “Ceterum censeo”, you’re going to want to follow it up with the accusative, because you’ve already got your subject with “censeo”, which is in the nominative and translates as “I opine”. So you’ll want either “Ceterum censeo ZergNet esse delendam” (“Furthermore, I opine that ZergNet must be destroyed”) or just “ZergNet delenda est” (“ZergNet must be destroyed.” I’m sidestepping the issue of the declension of “ZergNet” because it’s not actually a Latin noun, so it’s utterly beyond me how to handle that… and I’m also treating it as a feminine noun, as “Carthago” and “factio Republicana” are).

    Alternately, you can just copy what I’ve written at the end of all of my comments for the last six months or so (short version “factio Republicana delenda est”… although “Ceterum censeo partes Republicanas esse delendas” – short version “Partes Republicanae delendae sunt” – might actually be a better word choice. “Partes” is plural of “pars”, but I’m informed that as a plural, it corresponded roughly to our current meaning of “party”, while “factio” only came to mean “party” later. This makes sense from an etymological standpoint – it’s clear that “pars” is the linguistic ancestor of “party”, while “factio” is the ancestor of “faction” – but is mildly confusing from a grammar one. Latin is just a confounding language in general).

    In any case, I’m not exaggerating with the Cato paraphrase. The whole Republican Party apparatus needs to be completely destroyed, the crops burned, the fields salted, the ashes scattered to the four winds. Nothing must remain.

    Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.

  42. 42.

    Soprano2

    @hitchhiker: It really, really, really, really pissed me off that the press gave so much attention to this “incident”.  They acted like nothing else happened for the whole day.  They all led with it as the story of that day of the trial.  I think it soothed their “both sides” tic; after a whole day of listening to the House managers set out how Trump had violated his oath of office, it must have made them feel really good to be able to soothe it.

  43. 43.

    low-tech cyclist

    After Collins’ performance before the Kavanaugh vote, where she sacrificed whatever shreds of integrity she had left at that point, anyone who held out any hopes that she’d be any sort of honest juror now had to be fooling themselves.

    That speech was her coming-out as a Trump wraith.  She doesn’t have the strength of character to de-wraith.

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