“Maybe they thought they’d be long gone from public life by the time Roe fell. “The fox promised it would not eat any of the chickens if given access to the henhouse!” doesn’t work as an excuse when the coop is spatter painted with blood and feathers. If they’re telling the truth now, they are the people that necessitate stickers on irons that read “WARNING: DO NOT IRON CLOTHES WHILE WEARING THEM.” If they are telling the truth now and were that easily misled and simultaneously incapable of listening to all of the people who were telling them that they were being misled, they are dumber than a bag of hair. If Manchin and Collins were telling the truth now and they really had no idea this would happen, then they’re morons who should not be trusted to operate a manual stapler without eye protection, much less write laws. senators did not believe that two men who are on the cusp of getting a lifetime appointment to their dream job wouldn’t lie during the job interview as a means to an end. ![]() If Senators Collins and Manchin are telling the truth now (they’re not, but let’s pretend they are, for a second, as a treat), it means that they sincerely did not suspect that two Federalist Society-vetted judges who were nominated by a president who had once mused during a debate that it may be time to dole out punishment for women who have abortions would, when given the opportunity, vote to overturn the legal precedent guaranteeing a right to abortion. ![]() I might be an outlier here, but I believe them. Collins says that she, too, was lied to, and that the court’s abandoning of a 50-year precedent was “ill-considered action that will further divide” the country during an already fraught time. Manchin released a statement declaring that he was “alarmed” and “deeply disappointed” that he was lied to by both judges. ![]() Whoopsie!īoth senators have come out with statements declaring themselves shocked- shocked-that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch would do such a thing-what naughty justices! This is especially sad-making to the senators because both of them met with both judges during their respective confirmation processes, and both judges assured both senators that they would triple-dog promise to not undo Roe v. They did so because, at the time, they were assured that both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would uphold precedent. Are Senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin stupid, or do they just think we are?īoth self-identified centrist, pro-choice senators voted to confirm Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, two of the six jurists responsible for curb-stomping American women’s rights back into the 1960s with today’s ruling on Dobbs vs.
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