Monday, December 17, 2018

Susan Collins Is Mounting Her Rehabilitation Campaign She Shouldn't Get Away With It

Maine Public Broadcasting is pushing Susan Collins' new slogan that she's vindicated !!! in voting for the perjurer and credibly accused sexual assaulter and political ratfucker Brett Kavanaugh because Kavanaugh, knowing the first time he does it it will ignite a fire storm, didn't vote to take up a case against Planned Parenthood.   Of course her rehabilitation campaign will be pushed by the Maine media which, including "Public" Radio is a Republican propaganda machine.  It's been her most important tool in pulling the wool over the eyes of the center right and modestly leftish in the state. 

Kavanaugh knows that he will be vulnerable for as long as he sits on the Court because he so obviously did perjure himself and he did outrageously lie about his high school and college years as well as his time working for the Bush II regime.  He will lie low for as long as he figures he's in danger of becoming the first successfully impeached Supreme Court justice, that's about the only reason he might not be as bad as there is every reason to believe he wants to be.

Susan Collins and the media machine that covers up for her is desperate to save her from any possible sign that Kavanaugh will do what he was put on the court by Trump, Grassley, Graham and McConnell to do.   My guess is that he'll feel safest going after People of color because the massive racism of the population and the media will make that safest for him, that and anti-environmental rulings, rulings propping up Republican vote suppression, gerrymandering, etc. will be more than damaging enough to prove that Susan Collins voted for a hard right hack and tool with every reason for her to know that's who she was voting for.   She will use this one area to cover up what will probably be one of her most enduring betrayals of those who were chumped into voting for her on the basis of her phony moderation.

9 comments:

  1. "credibly accused sexual assaulter"

    Mr. Blair would be proud, or disappointed.

    "he did outrageously lie about his high school and college years"

    Prejudice is a not a synonym for knowledge.

    "My guess is that he'll feel safest going after People of color because the massive racism of the population"

    You really need to get out more. They're not showing 'Birth of a Nation' at movie theatres and haven't for quite a while.

    Also, considering you think Elizabeth Warren a member of the Cherokee Nation just because of the [D] after her name...

    There is so much wrong with Kavanaugh, but you seem to think him a racist, wanna-be rapist because, get this, he's a straight white male. And it appears you think we're all alike, and that we all follow Jordan Peterson.

    SMH

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    1. He is credibly accused, Christine Blasey Ford's testimony was credible in every way that his wasn't. He lied about his drinking, he lied about anal ingestion of alcohol, he lied about participating in a joke on one of the women stupid enough to have signed the letter of support - she certainly understood Brett and the boys were calling her a slut - he lied about his record, he refused to call for a real investigation into Blasey-Ford's and other women's accusations that he had assaulted them.

      You are verging on me excluding your comments with what you said about Elizabeth Warren WHO HAS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, SOMETHING WHICH I HAVE NEVER SAID SHE WAS BECAUSE SHE NEVER CLAIMED IT AND I KNEW SHE WASN'T. She has been totally honest about her family lore and that she has never, once, claimed to be a member of a minority in her educational or work history.

      Kavanaugh is credibly accused of being an attempted rapist, he is even more credibly accused as a sexual assaulter by more than one person. That won't change. Neither will the fact that he lied, under oath in two confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. If, in two years, Democrats control that committee and if Sheldon Whitehouse is still a member of it, perhaps, by that time, the leader of the Committee, I fully expect there will the the investigation that Grassley and Graham et al prevented and he will be highly indictable, a fact which I believe he probably realizes more than anyone. If he doesn't make the waves Trump and the racist, sexist criminals who chose him to be on the court hope he will, it will be because he knows he's liable at any time to be called on his lies. I hope that the House Judiciary Committee subpoenas the records that Grassley and McConnell suppressed. I'd love to have it exposed that the most degenerate and criminal president in American history put a criminal on the Supreme Court with the collusion of the entire Republican caucus of the Senate, minus one Senator. I hope Susan Collins is fired by the voters in my state just as Margaret Chase Smith was when we concluded she'd been in Washington way too long and was a Republican hack. Susan ain't no MCS, she doesn't have even the cred that that icon had.

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    2. Credible? To an extent. But we are dealing with memories decades after the event whose details are not collaborated. There are any number of studies from psychologists and psychiatrists regarding the malleability of our remembrances. Care must be taken when dealing with charges stemming solely from personal testimony, especially decades after the fact. And if you think otherwise, see: Duke Lacrosse (very credible), Jaqueline Coakley (again, super believable), Emma Sulkowicz (ditto), see a pattern and the problem here? You don’t like to mention those incidents because they don’t fit into your narrative.

      Lying about anal ingestion of alcohol? Yeah, I gotta be honest but I don’t think that’s something he dwells on and considers every day of his life.

      As I said before, Ford’s accusations are frustratingly inconclusive. I feel she is telling the truth. But feelings aren’t important. It is too bad, but hopefully her testimony encouraged women who are abused to come forward. Also, you’re neglecting to mention the proven false allegations against Kavanaugh that the press sold like gospel because, again, narrative.

      Warren allowed, nay, requested, herself listed as “Cherokee” in the directory at both the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. She also contributed to a book called ‘Pow Wow Chow,’ and her recipes were authored by Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee. This despite the fact that, phenotypically, she is whiter than Trump and has no identifiable Native American ancestor, no clan affiliation, and no meaningful connection to Cherokee language, customs or culture. That she disrespected the customs and traditions of the Native Peoples by using a DNA test and presenting it as “proof” that Trump owes her “one million bucks”* (to quote you) shows she is digging a hole and refuses to put down the shovel.

      If she were a Republican you would be holding her up as a paradigm for their cultural insensitivity.
      I agree with her political positions, in general. Would vote for her in an eye blink. But, here, she’s wandered off the rez. Far, far off.

      I don’t think you understand what the word “massive” means when you write about the “massive racism of the population.” Maybe if you weren’t so concerned about a century-old movie and a rock song from the 70s you’d see that some of us, most of us, massive amounts of people in fact, have moved on to the present.

      *My mother, who is actually paler than Warren, has more “African” blood in her than Warren has “Native American.” It means…nothing. My mom is white and would never dream of claiming otherwise. Just as Warren using 23andMe means nothing to the Cherokee Nation. To deny her actions as being disrespectful is dishonest. To deny that it actually made Trump look good is delusional.

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    3. I think I've had about enough of this. You seem to love to conflate entirely different incidents which have nothing to do with each other. Christine Blasey-Ford is not responsible for false accusations made against Lacrosse players which she was not associated with, your bringing that up to try to discredit her is a widely used dishonest tactic by someone who has nothing but the prejudice of his intended audience to use. It's the same thing the Republican-fascists on the Judiciary Committee relied on when the skirt they hired to hide behind wasn't getting the job done for them.

      I am including this mostly because it's an indication of the Republican-fascist talking points that will be used and are already being used against Elizabeth Warren if she runs for president. That list of lies is the only value this has.

      I'm not going to post any more of your comments.

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  2. Do I understand from thes4 comments that racism in America is a thing of the past? That everyone, like Liam, has "moved on"?

    That ignorance disqualifies all of Liam's comments. It's not even worthy if debate.

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  3. Oh, and Warren listed herself as a "minority" in the Association of American Law Schools faculty directory in 1986, before joining UPenn, and removed the designation before teaching at Harvard.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy-over-elizabeth-warrens-claimed-native-american-heritage/2012/09/27/d0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.66c541e368d4

    Just to clarify.

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    1. But that listing wasn't a. claiming she was a member of the Cherokee Nation (which has a real, legal meaning) and b. it wasn't using that in professional advancement.

      I'm not going to be publishing Liam's comments, anymore. This morning's were the limit, for me.

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    2. Warren's story is she was told her parents eloped because of family prejudice based on her mother being part Cherokee and part Delaware. A sort of "one drop" problem that still bedevils American culture. So do appeals to phenotype, for that matter.

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    3. I could believe it, my maternal grandparents eloped because her parents didn't want her to marry an Irish Catholic, my great-grandmother held it against my lovely grandmother till shortly before she died. It didn't, though, keep her from visiting, especially when she and my great-grandfather got into fights.

      Every family has its internal lore. My grandmother, by the way, had a grandmother who was, in fact, Penobscot, which means I have exactly the same percentage of Native American ancestry as Elizabeth Warren, like her the records don't exist because in the 1840s they were kind of lax about documenting the births of people born in the rural wilds of Maine. I've got two pictures of Grammy S. some vague census records from after her marriage (it would certainly NOT have been in the interest of the family to play up her ancestry) her second marriage after my G-G Grandfather died and the newspaper notice of her death, all of them quite vague about her ancestry.

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