October surprise?
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Reading through the posts I sure see how us democratic voters have a lock on unity. Calls for an under 35 party, lots of Old bashing, lots of splitting about which generation group is best or worst. The notion of an inclusive party sort of implies including people. I’d love to see and read constructive ideas as opposed to being lumped into the Old category or whatever division people create. We’re in this together folks. Don’t dismiss me because I’m too old or too young or too straight or too queer. The splitting is what destroys us as a party. The republicans have just demonstrated a shit ton of division…Nazi’s, tea party, ultra rabid conservatives and whatever else but those bastards suck it up and vote in unison for the lowest common denominator every time. We might want to wise up and learn a lesson from them.
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I was thinking of Flake, Manchin, etc. as well, but Collins’ support hinged, publicly anyways, on assurances that Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be overturned. But those “assurances” were transparently bullshit, which she never called out, making it clear which way she was going. The Republicans are for party over country - and even survival - right now. Being self-destructive doesn’t surprise me. They’re obviously counting on dark money, gerrymandering and voter suppression to stay in power - even if only the first of those apply to her. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had been privately reassured by conservative money-men that her reelection funds were secured (and she’s probably hoping the abortion issue won’t come before the courts before her reelection, until such time she can rely on plausible deniability).
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Patrice Onwuka, a senior policy analyst with the conservative nonprofit Independent Women’s Forum in Washington, said conservatives see the Kavanaugh battle “as a fairness issue.”
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women's_Forum
Aha, the usual fine people:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women's_Forum#Funding
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I see a lot of back and forth here about who the “real” surge in voter enthusiasm belongs to.
Assume nothing. One of the reasons people don’t vote is they assume that their candidate is “safe”, so they don’t need to.
Don’t assume that enthusiasm before the actual vote will translate. Don’t assume that the other side will play fair, if it’s close. Get out and contribute to the landslide, if you think it’s coming. Don’t trust in apparent chaos, and just because the news that blatantly favours the opposition comes from the opposition, doesn’t mean it’s just propaganda.
Don’t lose hope, but don’t lose that sense that things could go catastrophically wrong, either. Do everything you can to prevent it, but be prepared if it doesn’t.
I know it’s a lot of pressure, but everybody who can’t vote is counting on those who can.
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Now that the votes are in the bag, nice tone policing in the Senate.
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It’s okay folks, the good people of Maine will vote her in again for another term. Women hating on women. I don’t get it.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FreedomWorks#Funding
The same fine people, once again.
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You have hit the nail on the head on Susan Collins. I have thought the exact same thing regarding her confirmation. As far as I know, it has not happened yet, but from what I read last night she’s going to confirm.
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Of course, after watching Kavanaugh’s reprehensible behavior in the hearings, why wouldn’t the immoral and unethical conservatives’ spirits be heightened. He’s their man and he represents everything they want. Sadly, the trump admin and everything that has come of it was my dad’s dream. I suppose ironically, he died before trump was elected so he never got to see the hatred and racism that he helped create.
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it occurs to me there will be speeches like this in congress justifying their behavior when in a few years it becomes illegal or completely unaccessable to terminate a pregnancy in this country - over a dozen state legislatures have “trigger laws” in place the moment they feel the court has given them permission
the hard right is truly insidious, think about how long they have been hammering away at this and all the lawmakers who have lined up with a smile to take away rights from people
marriage equality, lgbt-rights in schools, workplace, dark money in politics, even scary levels presidential power, all going to become nightmare problems
feels like the darkness clearly got a “win” this week, and it all started when your neighbors and relatives voted for Trump, knowing this would happen, they wanted this - don’t know how we solve that level of spite in our society
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There’s plenty of solutions, just none that are “legal”.
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It’s a fucked-up day here in the U.S.!
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Anti-Collins site is up to $3.6 million.
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I’ve been taking advantage of being in Maine and calling Collins’ DC office from the 207 area code. Fat lot of good it did. 
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Collins will get your call in November, bet on it.
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Its not going to get better, and frankly I think it needs to get worse, much worse before it gets better. Democrats have to go on a full out attack mode, even more partisan than the GOP.
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Gerrymandering at the state level must be undone, and anti-democratic GOP advantages at the state level undone, so a representative congress can be re-established.
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Trump must be pursued like a rabid dog and put down. Landmark Nullification of all Trumps acts must be pursued as only remedy to conspiracy with Russia. Election nullified, and special election called.
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All senior GOP elected officials must be taken down with any even casual connection to Trumps conspiracy. Pence, McConnell, Ryan, and all their seconds and thirds, including both the appointment to SC.
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Kavanaugh must still be pursued vigorously and impeached to keep him from any court seat, and his law license revoked. Maybe he can get a job bartending somewhere.
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Any GOP connection to the Trump debacle must be pursued, with the sole remedy the break-up/de-chartering of the GOP for conspiracy with Russia must be pursued at any cost of partisanship.
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NRA must be prosecuted for role in funneling russian money to Trump campaign, and the organization dissolved, and all future organizations around guns highly regulated, and sensible gun controls put in place.
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With the GOP gone, the players will be allowed to reorganize into interest groups - two minor parties - the Tea Party, and traditional economically conservative republicans. Both parties will be barred from taking any religious interests.
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Campaign finance and donations will be completely redone with fairness and exclusion of corporate interests. Money is not speech.
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Now with the GOP gone the Democrats can then be forced to hone over to progressive positions, or the Centrists will be ejected into a splinter party leaving the Progressive to Moderate Democratic party with the clear majority in the resultant government.
Then we’ll have some democracy again.
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And learn to play hardball while we’re at it.
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