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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen King suggests Collins "NO" vote on Big Bullshit Bill was for reasons OTHER THAN her trademarked CONCERN
Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Exactly. Few know Collins MO better.
Exactly. Few know Collinsâ MO better.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T23:31:38.908Z

pfitz59
(11,702 posts)always the safe 'no' vote.
Wounded Bear
(62,599 posts)czarjak
(13,043 posts)Who knew?
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)they have been doing this for decades, and other things like it.........
SeattleVet
(5,711 posts)Paraphrased:
I only vote the way they tell me. We look at the votes and I can sometimes vote the way my constituents actually want if my vote won't make a difference, but it makes me look like I'm following the voter's desires.
What he actually stated - not far from the paraphrase above! Yeah, he managed to say the quiet part out loud.
"Sometimes the leadership comes to me and says, Dave, we want you to vote a certain way. Now, they know I can do that over here, that I have to do that over here. In other districts, thats not a problem, but here I have to be able to be very flexible in where I place my votes. Because the big picture here is, keep this seat, keep the majority, keep the country moving forward with Republican ideals
. Not the vote I place on ANWAR that you may not agree with, or the vote that I place on protecting salmon.
stollen
(929 posts)They are prime reasons for congressional term limits.
murielm99
(32,175 posts)Let the voters decide who should be there.
atreides1
(16,799 posts)Term limits still allow the voters to decide...they can still vote for another brain dead drooling flat earther, if they want!
stollen
(929 posts)who was able to pump in the most $$ to a campaign. Musk helped get Trump in.
littlemissmartypants
(28,637 posts)No doubt that they count and decide in advance who's going to do what as is best for them. These phonies stay up on their high horses and couldn't care less about anyone else.
Their constituents are just an excuse. An afterthought.
Easterncedar
(4,759 posts)Rebl2
(16,749 posts)about right.
quakerboy
(14,466 posts)She has won election 5 times, and the last 4 she won with a majority not just a plurality. The most recent win was after her participation in supporting trump in the first time, If i have my dates correct.
Iamscrewed
(486 posts)Where are the Statesmen or"Statespeople"?
Politicians have repeatedly proven to be money grubbing crooked racist theives.
Who understands the difference?
patphil
(8,112 posts)JD Vance would definitely break the tie.
At least we can take heart in the fact that the Republican Senators can count.
hatrack
(63,138 posts)It appears they can't count the number of constituents who'll lose health care, or interest costs of trillions of Billionaire Bonus debt, or the hospitals that will close in their states.
Orrex
(65,660 posts)Romney was the same way, as was McCain before him. Make a big show of standing strong, but then vote exactly as instructed to benefit the party over the nation.
druidity33
(6,795 posts)Orrex
(65,660 posts)They're allowed to vote "NO" when their vote doesn't matter one way or the other, and they thereby puff up the illusion that they're anything other than wholly owned subsidiaries of the party of fascists.
druidity33
(6,795 posts)i'm talking about the John McCain "thumbs down fuck you i'm going to die soon" vote that kept the repeal of ACA from happening.
Orrex
(65,660 posts)hatrack
(63,138 posts).
druidity33
(6,795 posts)Marie Marie
(10,380 posts)I'm sure that DUers in Maine see right through her bullshit, but why do the other voters keep swallowing it?
Hekate
(98,691 posts)The 10 least populated states are: Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire. Their Senators and Governors can shake everybodys hand, drop in to coffee shops and barber shops, and in general get known on the basis of their winning personalities and concern for their constituents. If they work it right, they can hold that seat for life.
California, by contrast, has almost 40,000,000 as much as the country of Canada. No presidential candidate is ever going to drop into my coffee shop. They arent Huell Howser, glad-handing his way from one end of the state to the other for PBS. I get that, which is why I have lost patience with Democrats who whine that Hillary never visited them and thats why she lost.
Gimpyknee
(422 posts)Paladin
(31,127 posts)Brainfodder
(7,555 posts)Why is she winning in her state over and over, she is creepy AF!
Ray Bruns
(5,450 posts)She pulls this stunt all the time. If the GOP had needed her vote, she would have overridden her concerns and voted how they told her to vote.
But what makes me the most angriest is the press eats up her act all the time. Its getting old.
Norrrm
(2,548 posts)Susan Collins' integrity...
Susan Collins pledges to serve only two terms.
republianmushroom
(20,789 posts)Nothing more.
hay rick
(8,916 posts)It looks like democracy but it's not. The smell gives it away.
BaronChocula
(3,040 posts)Who was originally a No vote along with Paul, and Tillis. Paul and Tillis stuck to their guns. Though they both still suck.
happy feet
(1,224 posts)wolfie001
(5,759 posts)Same thing in West Va., same thing in North Carolina. Hateful tRUMPer racists.
Skittles
(166,344 posts)FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT