Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Senator Breaks With Republicans Will Vote Yes On Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court Nomination" video.

"There's no such thing as a moderate Republican in Congress. They might say that they only vote with the President seventy percent of the time, but they vote with the President one hundred percent of the time when he needs their vote." Barney Frank, 2005
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True, but my dollar says that Romney already told her that he'd vote Yes, but was doing her a solid and waited for her announcement.
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Not the same thing. If she was truly applying the same standard in 2020, she would have made the announcement the instant the vacancy took place.
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@DireAvenger001 And when did she actually confirm that she would vote No?
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@DireAvenger001 On October 1st, she said that she would meet with Amy Coney Barrett. (Thus, after she said that the nomination shouldn't go forward.) She did no such thing when Merrick Garland was the nominee. If McConnell would have needed her vote, she would have given it. Other than the vote to repeal the ACA, how many other times has she cast a vote in a way that defied party leadership and made sure that it didn't get what it wanted? The second impeachment doesn't count, because it still fell ten votes short.
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@DireAvenger001 She violated the "principle" because the instant she refused to meet with Garland, she showed that she was not even going to give him a chance. When she offered to meet with Barrett, she proved that she was open to voting Yes. So, other than repealing the ACA, when did she vote against leadership in a way that they didn't get what they wanted? Barney Frank was right that moderate Republicans are an illusion.
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@Kefka. Do you honestly think that she would have "upheld the standard" if she was the 50th vote? It's the same reason why she waited on Murkowski to make her decision before she said she would vote for Kavanaugh. Tom DeLay was a pioneer of the tactic which he called catch and release that basically allowed the "moderates" to rotate while giving leadership everything they wanted.
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