Actually Yeah, so that the Congress could finally get rid of such a lousy Senator. If there's ONE single Senator right now who is hindering radical and truely progressive change in the Senate/US for the better, that person is not Mark Pryor, that person is most definitely Susan Collins. For two very obvious reasons. 1) She is so much more of partisan than all of you figureheads try to claim. In more than 80% of all cases, she sides with the extremely conservative tea party members. 2) Because of her, we cannot have Shenna Bellows for Senate, who would make even Bernie Sanders blush for being way to centrist, coward and insipide. Bellows would for sure become the most European-like Senator the US had ever seen, and in comparison truely make Susan Collins seem like the Ted Cruz of Maine politics. To be quite frank, I'm quite disgusted by the Human Rights Campaign endorsing Collins instead of the most LGBTIQ friendly candidate the American election system has ever seen to date.
My logic was this:
- She would have no trouble getting confirmed, since all of the Democrats would back her and most of the Republicans.
- She wouldn't get Landrieu, Hagan, Pryor, etc., in any trouble with their voters.
- She still might inspire a sexist remark or otherwise stupid remark from a far-right Republican, hurting the entire Republican Party.
- Republican Senate candidates would have a tough time praising Obama's pick but not praising Obama himself, and one of them might screw that up. If they praise the pick too much, Tea Partiers may stay home.
- Obama and the Democrats would have a concrete example of "Look how bipartisan we are!" to attract Independent voters.
- Maine would probably replace her with a Democrat.
- Having her out of the Senate pulls the "average Republican Senator" in to more conservative, more hackish, less likable territory.
- She'd probably be fine at the job -- she's not bad for a Republican.
For these very reasons, she'd likely turn down an offer. Or so I would hope.
