Swears, "This one is different! I can just feel it!".
But this one wasn't different.
From The Rolling Stone:
How Trump’s Team Conned Susan Collins Into Dooming Roe v. Wade
Trump officials privately mocked the Maine Republican in the run-up to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, predicting it’d be easy to get the pro-choice senator to vote for a seemingly anti-choice nominee...
Except she wasn't "conned".
At all.
She was given whatever minimal fig-leaf she needed so she could vote to end Roe forever and then collapse on her fainting couch and pretend that the Bad Man had robbed her of her virtue with his corn liquor and his city slicker blandishments.
I Am The Liberal Media
2 comments:
Susan Collins is, and has been, a two-faced bad-faith partisan hack for her entire befouled career. The MSM's constant cover fire for her moderate pretensions is one of the reasons I've grown to despise mainstream outlets so much.
It's not even mummery any more. It's not a clown show. Please pardon the self-quote; I recently posted the following as a comment here:
Whatever America might have become, whatever worth and goodness we have previously brought into the world and might yet bring, had we but the courage - we sold it all, gave it away, laughed it into the void. We empowered "leaders" and politicians who prioritized frozen peaches and corporate profits over human rights and a caring society. We tolerated the intolerant; we handed them the keys to the kingdom, placed their hands on the levers of government.
And now the saboteurs and liars and seditious insurrectionists are gleefully smashing everything they can touch - and the institution with a Constitutionally-enshrined duty to call out such things isn't even asleep at the wheel; it's actively cooperating with the people who are destroying the US.
And I believe that. Astonishing as this might seem, I think you (DG and BG) give the US mass media more more credit than I do. I don't think they're cowed by a heavily armed GOP voter base. I think they're actively complicit.
I think Chuck Todd - and the people who pay Chuck Todd - see Mitch McConnell, Louie Gohmert, Susan Collins, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Jim Jordan, Chuck Grassley, and all the rest of the assholes actively smashing US democracy, and... they're handing out baseball bats and crowbars. They're not just standing aside and letting it happen. They're providing cover fire. They're supporting the destruction.
They're complicit.
Susan Collins is a goddamn Republican like all of the other goddamn Republicans, no more no less. Her attempts to socially weasel out of the consequences of being a goddamn Republican are just that.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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