GOP Sen. Collins says she'll back resolution to block Trump's emergency declaration
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 02/20/19 05:20 PM EST
GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) on Wednesday said she would support a resolution to block President Trump's emergency declaration to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Collins, speaking to reporters in Maine, said she would support a resolution of disapproval that was focused on the emergency declaration, which she has described as being of "dubious constitutionality."
If its a clean disapproval resolution, I will support it, she told reporters, according to The Associated Press.
Collins's comments make her the first Republican senator to say they will back legislation to block Trump's executive action. A spokeswoman for Collins didn't immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.
Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/430849-collins-says-shell-vote-for-resolution-blocking-trumps-emergency
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,281 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)It seems to me we have heard this song before.
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)vote on the side of right and been betrayed at the last minute.
To my mind, she's worse than someone like McConnell - at least with the Turtle you know he's just going to say 'f u' and move on with his right wing destruction of all we hold dear.
Collins just wiggles in the wind, kind of like a sock.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)IF IF IF IF
Ah HAA!! There's her out.
ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)...she gets to define "clean"!
How convenient.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)But, funny post!
MurrayDelph
(5,281 posts)Jim Jordan.
kysrsoze
(6,010 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)...what Susan Collins says?
Seems like what she says doesn't really matter.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)The only one.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Hoping voters in her state are indeed collecting funds for her future opponent, whoever that may be.
dalton99a
(81,091 posts)Anything to get her face on TV
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)You are one of the sweetest persons here, so to respond with "shove them up your ass" just made me laugh out loud.
How do you really feel?!
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)How I really feel is much worse.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)in2herbs
(2,942 posts)Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)After the Kavanaugh bullshit, shes no longer worth trying to woo over to our side.
BlueMTexpat
(15,350 posts)football again!
George II
(67,782 posts)Yosemito
(648 posts)That's why.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 21, 2019, 06:11 AM - Edit history (1)
duforsure
(11,882 posts)If he gets to falsely declare an emergency to pick and choose funding from where he wants to rob it from , he'll start doing this on many issues he wants to promote without any Congressional approval from them at all. And maybe she's scared he'll claim next martial law next whenever he wants to bypass all of Congress to then get absolute power of OUR government , and eliminating them . She should be scared of this, because that's exactly how he operates finding loopholes to get an advantage over them with to do as he pleases with no oversite, or Congress to worry about.
no_hypocrisy
(45,786 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)maxrandb
(15,193 posts)She can vote against this because she knows that Squi's drinking buddy "Boof", that she helped shepherd onto the Supreme Court, will rule in the orange piece of shits favor.
Dear Susan, with all due respect, "go fuck yourself sideways with a hard-cover, First Edition copy of Atlas Shrugged, you worthless piece of amphibian shit"
maxrandb
(15,193 posts)She's like that little fucking paper-clip dude that used to pop-up when you were using Microsoft Outlook.
Dude was always popping up, but you really just wanted the fucking thing to go away.
watoos
(7,142 posts)who publicly stated they were against Trump declaring a national emergency. Collins is now on record. Why don't we go after the other 4 or 5? How about Marco Rubio? He was against it, how is he going to vote?
How are we ever going to get enough Republicans to override a Trump veto?
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)veto the budget and do another Repugnant owned shutdown that would force the turtle into hiding again.
However he will be working behind the scenes to get enough Repugnants on board like Collins to kill it because if it stands the next Democrat in office can then declare national emergencies on a host of things from healthcare to guns.
watoos
(7,142 posts)can get enough votes to override a Trump veto?
What about the House, can it override a Trump veto? The Freedumb caucus always votes the opposite way of Democrats.
I'm all for getting Republicans on record but there is a bad side to this. There are a bunch of law suits out there opposing Trump's emergency declaration and they are expected to reach the Supreme Court. What if the SC decides not to hear the case but to leave the decision up to Congress?
cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)4 to 5 years away from having to face a challenger or those that are vulnerable to a Democratic challenger such as Collins.
shanny
(6,709 posts)for it to pass in the Senate so she is free to take a Bold, Principled Stand...it is theater and that's all.
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)Does this really count? Did you use your safe word?
Javaman
(62,444 posts)hatrack
(59,446 posts)Who. Gives. A. Fuck. What. She. Says.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)a word she says. Very disappointed in her since Kavanaugh
smb
(3,453 posts)Firestorm49
(4,004 posts)MiniMe
(21,677 posts)"If it's a 'clean' disapproval resolution"
Anything Collins says has an "if" in it.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)Under very rare circumstances she does. Wasn't she one of the Republicans (with McCain casting the deciding vote) who kept all of Obamacare from being repealed?
Mostly though I think she may vote to disapprove because she may already know that there are more than enough votes for the Senate to do so, but not enough to over ride a Trump veto. That's her style.