The Fraudulence Of Susan Collins

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Robert Kuttner - HuffPost

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The Maine senator has reduced the choreography of legislative head-fakes to a sublime art, in order to preserve her bogus reputation as an independent-minded centrist. When a contentious issue arises, Collins will elaborately explain that she hasn’t made up her mind yet. She needs to give the issue careful study. And then, wondrously, after very careful and well-advertised study, she almost always votes with Mitch McConnell. Funny how her research invariably leads to that conclusion.

She is especially loyal to her party when her vote is pivotal on important legislation or nominations. She has voted to confirm virtually all of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Collins also voted for the Trump tax bill (which passed 51-49) and for the confirmation last year of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

In the most drama in which she played a critical role, Collins joined two other Republicans in calling for what turned out to be a rigged FBI inquiry. She then voted to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court ― not with ambivalence but almost giddy enthusiasm. In her floor speech on Friday announcing the decision, she did not present her conclusion as a close or difficult question. To hear Collins tell it, Kavanaugh’s record on a federal appeals court shows that he’s the most even-handed and brilliant jurist since King Solomon.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-susan-collins-kavanaugh_us_5bba611ee4b028e1fe3e99e4

[calimary]

1. Yep.

[dalton99a]

2. Susan Collins has always been a fraud.

[Zambero]

3. Susan Con-lins

Talks from the center, votes from the right.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Careful study means the checks haven't cleared yet.

[PandoraAwakened]

5. Agreed

Guess I was one of thousands who ended up crashing that website in a mad dash to donate hard-earned cash to whoever runs against this Aunt Lydia wanna-be in 2020. When the site was back up and running, doing my civic duty with that donation ended up providing hubby and I with the only feel-good moment we've had through this whole Kava-shitbag debacle. You can even donate as little as $5. Trust me, the stick-it-in-Collins-eye feeling you'll get from doing that is better and longer-lasting than any caffeine high you might enjoy temporarily from a similarly priced cup of joe from your local Starbucks.

[Midnight Writer]

6. It's not fraud. She has an "R" after her name. That should make it clear to anyone.

[Scarsdale]

7. For some reason, she

gets herself on TV almost every Sunday. Is this why the gop supports her, as though she is an icon of some sort? She is willing to get on TV, lie like a rug and smile the whole time. The gop uses her as cover for their dirty deeds, and she goes along with it. WHY? Her pretense of measured, thoughtful consideration of any pending vote is fake as her dear leader tRump. The people who cheered her on at the airport a few weeks ago must feel like fools today.