Will Collins and Murkowski vote for Kavanaugh?

[Cyrano]

Both Susan Collins, Republican Senator from Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, Republican Senator from Alaska, have expressed reservations about voting for Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh.

If only one of them does, he'll be confirmed. But don't buy the bullshit. One of them might take the risk while the other skates free and looks "good" to her voters. Either way, Kavanaugh will be approved. That's a foregone conclusion given today's Republican insanity.

The Collins/Murkowski hemming and hawing is just a bit of Kabuki theater.

[Vinca]

1. Collins will fold. She always does. Slight chance Murkowski votes against.

[CanonRay]

2. I agree, Colins is an empty suit

no principals, no spine, just a jellyfish.

[RainCaster]

5. The tribes are giving Murkowski a reminder of who put her in office

If she caves, its game over for her political career.

[Cyrano]

7. They should feed her to a polar bear

[kimbutgar]

3. Both are party over country POS's

Wow all of the repukes are being balckmailed into submission.

[Hortensis]

4. If one of them folds, the other will almost certainly follow.

The plausible deniability about Kavanaugh they both desperately need would be blasted.

Both ME and AK are strongly pro-abortion states. Elevating Kavanaugh followed by replacement of Roe with authoritarian restrictions would mark the end of either's career and beginning of living her new identity as the woman who criminalized abortion. She'd be named until she died in coverage of teens and women sentenced to prison, dying for lack of medical care, and being forced to carry even doomed pregnancies to term.

Of course, these days one has to consider the chance that one or both are compromised in some way.

[budkin]

6. Absolutely

No chance they don't.

[Cyrano]

8. WTF is Wrong with them??

[sellitman]

9. I'll be shocked if they fold

They are going to both vote for him if you ask me.

[bunny planet]

10. I wish all Democratic Senators would vote NO

they would then expose Murkowski and especially Collins as the faux moderates that they are.....Collins will only vote no if she's sure a Democrat crossing the aisle will give her cover to do so....let's not give her that camouflage. 70% of the American people, Democrats and Republicans and Independents do not want Roe overturned....and even more don't want to lose their healthcare coverage. I just don't see the risks, even for red state Democrats to vote NO together in unity and expose the partisanship and lack of regard for women and the middle class and the poor by those Republicans who falsely represent themselves as moderates.

[Cyrano]

11. Don't underestimate the power of the "Kool-Aid"

Murkowski and Collins have been drinking it for years.