Fair but it's clickbait, which is shitty

Not even Schumer is stupid enough to cave to "I lose my job forever."

That's not how the filibuster works. It only takes one person to do it. It's take 60 to vote against it to stop it from being done by that one person. Even Schumer isn't dumb enough to call the dems to vote against them doing their own thing.

What does someone in Maine get out of this? Maybe Collins is getting shit for it but the average person is getting fucked.

So bribery. Maine residents are okay with immoral national politics, as long as they get their kickbacks for making it happen.

I'm thinking concessions for being the deciding vote should not be a thing.

Not sure I’d give much credit to susie on this one. It’s more than likely filling her pockets.

This was why I was fucking bummed when Biden got into the Democratic primary in '19. Name recognition >>> Younger, better options.

Meanwhile, Republicans are actively trying to kill you. Both sidesism only makes sense when both are equivalent threats, which is clearly not the fucking case.

She's one of a few the Republicans have had strategically vote against the party when her vote wasn't needed to pass a bill. Basically her, Murkowski, and for a while McCain, until he really bucked the party with the ACA vote and became a pariah until his death.

Partisanship is such a driving force in our politics that even someone who only bucks their party 4% of the time is considered "bipartisan". I've seen reports in the media calling a vote "bipartisan" if it only gets two or three votes from the other side.

And yes, it depends on that person's reputation. Since Collins is seen as a moderate, all it takes is her support on a bill to call it "bipartisan". OTOH, Senator Rand Paul frequently votes against the Republican party line, but only because he is a batshit crazy libertarian. He can vote against a Republican bill, and nobody calls that "bipartisan", I guess because both sides think he's nuts.

Collins regularly advertises herself as a moderate and makes a big show of complaining about the rest of the party to the media.

Literally never. For some reason she has a reputation as being the left leaning Nazi tho

I know it was a joke, they always vote as a block because they have no independent thoughts.

So last November the republicans ran a 'fair voting' law in Maine and it got voted down by 65% of the state. Susan collins seat is at risk indeed. I see a lot of Graham Planter signs in the place of the old Trump signs. I think they are shitting a brick about midterms and this law is a political calculation to do what ever they need to do to skew the election in her favor. At this point I think she might just do it for the head lines. She's always contemplating until last minute when she always votes with her voting block.

She was re elected even after the "He learned his lesson." ridiculousness. Americans are the problem.

nothings certain. Im hoping mills and collins flop and the young populist dude sweeps it. I would not be surprised at all to see Susan win a fair election or a rigged election. I would be pleased if she didn't.

Not learning lessons has kinda been his thing. She goes in the ditch next to the rest of them.