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Susan Collins was just on Tweety (Original Post) CatWoman Nov 2012 OP
I still don't know what Collins point was after all her rambling.... VespertineIconoclast Nov 2012 #1
she ... did ... ramble .... is ... it ... a .... maine ... thing? Agschmid Nov 2012 #16
Actually we get right to the point. MarianJack Nov 2012 #31
Well if she gets challenged by TP she is likely to loose. Agschmid Nov 2012 #32
No offense taken. MarianJack Nov 2012 #36
these people are out of their fucking minds. they are trying to poison her possible nomination. spanone Nov 2012 #2
In my view they are performing this dog and pony show to assure Obama chooses the hawkish Rice blm Nov 2012 #8
could be, seems she's never met a conflict she didn't like.... spanone Nov 2012 #13
or any of the other candidates who are qualified, there are a few. Agschmid Nov 2012 #17
+1. She is the perfect choice....for the GOP. Pro-Keystone Pipeline, pro-war. nt Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #34
And she's the "moderate" in the party. tridim Nov 2012 #3
Susan Collins doesn't even know what the fuck Susan Collins is talking about Cali_Democrat Nov 2012 #4
I don't think Sen. Collins' elevator even goes to the second floor tularetom Nov 2012 #5
I came here as soon as it was over DearAbby Nov 2012 #6
I think Tweety dennis4868 Nov 2012 #20
I dont believe tweety was agreeing DearAbby Nov 2012 #23
did you see afterwards with dennis4868 Nov 2012 #24
nawh he was taken aback by the ...I mean did Collins say "it was the wrong time of year?" DearAbby Nov 2012 #28
I was waiting for Collins to say Rice was responsible for asjr Nov 2012 #7
Turned the sound off & she still annoyed me. narnian60 Nov 2012 #9
This frustrating piece of work is supposed to be the elusive moderate Republican? gordianot Nov 2012 #10
Senators, specifically GOP Senators, are not that smart. maxsolomon Nov 2012 #11
Write a letter John2 Nov 2012 #12
Tweety loves to repeat... butterfly77 Nov 2012 #14
They are rudderless, going on campain mode...i DearAbby Nov 2012 #15
From Wikipedia: Robert Bork rgbecker Nov 2012 #30
republicans are unhinged. they have lost it. this is despicable. spanone Nov 2012 #18
I want Balducci to take that asshole out when she runs for re-election. nt bluestate10 Nov 2012 #19
i saw on her something else before and she brought up Rice and some 1998 attacks JI7 Nov 2012 #21
right... dennis4868 Nov 2012 #25
Some 1998 attacks? godai Nov 2012 #29
yes, i remember this and Republicans thought it was Clinton behind the attacks JI7 Nov 2012 #33
The Republican party Aerows Nov 2012 #22
I wrote: elleng Nov 2012 #26
Yeah good point blue_heron Nov 2012 #35
Do they not know how idiotic they sound?? CrazyOrangeCat Nov 2012 #27

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
16. she ... did ... ramble .... is ... it ... a .... maine ... thing?
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:20 PM
Nov 2012

Or just because she doesn't even get what she is talking about, and what she is troubled about at this point?

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
31. Actually we get right to the point.
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:52 PM
Nov 2012

collins talks, IMHO, like she's trying to squeeze out her constipation.

She's up again in 2014. I think she may be concerned about a teabagger primary challenger. Otherwise, I think that Rep. Chellie Pingree has a HUGE hard on for her. I have NO concrete evidence of this, but it's a feeling.

BTW, hello from Winthrop Maine!

PEACE!

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
32. Well if she gets challenged by TP she is likely to loose.
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:54 PM
Nov 2012

You all have amazing lobstah out there, thank god for Warren's! No offense with my previous comment to Down Easter's just Ms. Collins rambling.

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
36. No offense taken.
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 10:40 PM
Nov 2012

You know who makes the most fun of the way that people from Maine talk? People from Maine.

One way we can tell the difference between people from Maine and the tourists is that tourists say that they're ginf to Baaah Haaahhbah for laahbstah. People who live in Maine won't go to Bar Harbor for Lobster.

PEACE!

blm

(113,071 posts)
8. In my view they are performing this dog and pony show to assure Obama chooses the hawkish Rice
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 06:44 PM
Nov 2012

over the noninterventionist Kerry.

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
17. or any of the other candidates who are qualified, there are a few.
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:20 PM
Nov 2012

are they boxing him in, or boxing him out? Good question.

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
6. I came here as soon as it was over
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 06:22 PM
Nov 2012

My head is spinning, I have never heard that much bullshit being whipped into a Dairy Queen swirl. I have no clue what she was saying...until Tweety penned her down.

They are accusing the President of covering up a terrorist attack...because he didnt name the attackers. SOME reason they believe a terrorist act from just a RUN OF A MILL terrorist group would have been better for OBAMA politically..than a BONA FIDE Terrorist attack by the Dreaded AL QUEADA....its not real unless its AL QUEADA....these people are FUCKING CRAZY.

dennis4868

(9,774 posts)
20. I think Tweety
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:21 PM
Nov 2012

went easy on Collins, at times even agreeing with her. WTF? Collins said that when Rice went on the sunday shows she acted with certainty when the opposite is true. THEY ARE MAKING SHIT UP. Even Tweety is believing this shit.

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
23. I dont believe tweety was agreeing
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:38 PM
Nov 2012

with her with those grunts he gives...its what he does to let the person know he is listening or "go on" not really saying Yeah I agree...they are just grunts. That is my feeling. Susan Collins really laid it bare..they are going with the "Concocted conspiracy theory" Faux created.


THEY BELIEVE THE HYPE AGAIN...like they did before the election, when our factcheckers were not good enough, our polls were skewed and America wants a Christian Taliban, the Election didnt happen, and they just have to get out the message clearer, THEY HAVEN'T STOPPED CAMPAIGNING. The denial is total. They need intervention, this shit is scaring the holy shit out of me.

dennis4868

(9,774 posts)
24. did you see afterwards with
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:44 PM
Nov 2012

David Corn? Tweety seemed to be upset that Rice would do the interview on MTP when she could not tell the entire truth and how the talking points were politicized...that's how I saw it on Hardball...clearly, Tweety does not have all the facts.

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
28. nawh he was taken aback by the ...I mean did Collins say "it was the wrong time of year?"
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:24 PM
Nov 2012

I did a double take and jaw on floor over that one. I did not have the same reaction as you regarding the Corn interview. Tweety was right on when he said this is because the GOP hates Obama got Bin Laden, its a grudge....re view the interview, He gets it.

asjr

(10,479 posts)
7. I was waiting for Collins to say Rice was responsible for
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 06:23 PM
Nov 2012

getting the Underground Railway going during the Civil War. How she has kept her seat all these years is a puzzle to me.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
11. Senators, specifically GOP Senators, are not that smart.
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:05 PM
Nov 2012

They are cunning and shameless, but that's not the same thing.

 

John2

(2,730 posts)
12. Write a letter
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:15 PM
Nov 2012

to Susan Collins and tell her she can't get her facts straight about the Libyan President. She needs to huddle with her pals and get her story right. Here is why:

September 12, 2012, The Guardian published a video interview, with emphasis, A local Libyan at the consulate compound right after the attack, emphasized that the attack was in response to the Anti-Islamic Film.

September 12 from the Dailey Star, Wanis al- sharif of the Libyan government ( Libyan Government with emphasis) told a news conference in Benghazi, that the attack was likely carried out by perpetrators of Gadaffi Loyalists.

NPR states that President Mohammed el Megaris said that foreigners infiltrated Libya over the past months, planned the attack and used Libyans to carry it out. He rejected that it was due to a spontaneous attack and the film but tied it to Al Qaeda. The only problem is in the same report ( he conflicts his statement), He said the attackers used the (emphasized) protesters outside the consulate as cover.

I suggest Senator Collins, along with the CIA, and Libyan government huddle with the GOP and get your stories straight! It is blowing up in your faces!

 

butterfly77

(17,609 posts)
14. Tweety loves to repeat...
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:17 PM
Nov 2012

she's a moderate,along with Olympia Snowe and McCain. Moderate because all in the media keep repeating it and then everyone picks it up but,every time there is something major going on they are right there with the right,right wing republiCONS.

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
15. They are rudderless, going on campain mode...i
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:19 PM
Nov 2012

Don't get me started on the Gramps McCain crap...he didnt get his questions answered at a QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Meeting specifically to answer ALL HIS QUESTIONS...what was he doing all that time? Couldn't he get his hands high enough in the air to ask his question? Is that why he was so troubled?

They dont care about Rice really, to them she is expendable. They dont care if they assassinate her character, they want that senate seat open in Mass....because as vile and vicious they are to Rice, they are falling over backwards complementing John Kerry....oh, believe me, if Ted Kennedy were still alive and younger, they would be woo'ing him too. Susan Rice means nothing, America means nothing, the election we had last month means nothing...they will have POWER..but not for country, no no no, for Party.

THEY ARE CRAZY or.......

Edit,,,someone said something today may be relevant. Said they are "BORKING" Rice...explain please?

rgbecker

(4,832 posts)
30. From Wikipedia: Robert Bork
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:38 PM
Nov 2012

Bork as verb

According to columnist William Safire, the first published use of bork as a verb was "possibly" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 20, 1987. Safire defines to bork by reference "to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan's nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork, the year before."[26] Perhaps the best known use of the verb to bork occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. She said, "We're going to bork him. We're going to kill him politically ... This little creep, where did he come from?"[27] Thomas was subsequently confirmed after one of the most divisive confirmation hearings in Supreme Court history.

In March 2002, the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for the verb Bork as U.S. political slang, with this definition: "To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way."[28]

JI7

(89,254 posts)
21. i saw on her something else before and she brought up Rice and some 1998 attacks
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:24 PM
Nov 2012

and i was thinking "how about 2001" ?

dennis4868

(9,774 posts)
25. right...
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:45 PM
Nov 2012

Susan Rice voted for Condi Rice to be SOS...the WMD lies and ignorning 911 warnings didn't bother her. SHE IS A FUCKING HYPOCRITE.

godai

(2,902 posts)
29. Some 1998 attacks?
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:32 PM
Nov 2012

The U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya & Tanzania

Fall 1998



On August 7, 1998, two car bombs exploded at the American Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people and wounding more than 5,000 others. Twelve Americans were killed in the Nairobi blast.

Unsubstantiated claims of responsibility for the bombings were received by several media outlets from an unknown group called the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places. Its communiqué called for "the withdrawal of U.S. and western forces from Moslem countries in general and from the Arabian Peninsula in particular."

http://www.adl.org/terror/focus/15_focus.asp

JI7

(89,254 posts)
33. yes, i remember this and Republicans thought it was Clinton behind the attacks
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:57 PM
Nov 2012

to distract from their all important ken starr investigations of Clinton.

but Collins seemed to be trying to blame Susan Rice.she just made no sense.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
22. The Republican party
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:31 PM
Nov 2012

is juggling this issue like they have their ass on fire, are on a unicycle poised over a 300 foot drop to a cliff. I wouldn't get too concerned over it.

They are trotting out everyone that could conceivably be construed as a moderate to keep their entire party from looking like dumbasses, which they do thanks to Graham and McCain, and the GOP can barely breathe from embarrassment. They have so much egg on their faces, the party looks like an omelet, and they were the ones breaking them.

President Obama is sitting back, letting them drop their balls one by one, because nobody with any sense thinks this is going anywhere. Even Republicans know it, but they are going forward with it because they were shocked that they lost. They are scrambling like buffoons to latch onto an issue that makes them look better.

It's actually pretty delicious, if you want my opinion .

elleng

(131,006 posts)
26. I wrote:
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:49 PM
Nov 2012

So S. Collins wanted Susan Rice to say "NO,'' when asked
by WH to respond to questions about Benghazi on Sunday talk shows?

blue_heron

(223 posts)
35. Yeah good point
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 10:22 PM
Nov 2012

Say no to your boss in the middle of his campaign.

And tell secrets to the whole world the intel world wanted to keep quiet about

CrazyOrangeCat

(6,112 posts)
27. Do they not know how idiotic they sound??
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:57 PM
Nov 2012

It really is madness. They are self-destructing, and seemingly determined to take us down with them.

Please pass the mercury and lead chips.

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