Susan Collins is A Disgrace

Susan Collins deserves to be considered the most cynical and hypocritical of the Senate Republicans in her announcement that she will vote for the Billionaire Tax Bonanza.  She has traded on a phony image as a "moderate"  "principled" Republican for her entire political career while almost never, in her entire career having done anything good except when it was inevitable based on mostly Democratic support for bills or when her "no" vote would make no difference because Republicans could pass some atrocity or other.

Now it's only her dirty hands covering her shame, the hands in which she grasps and holds up the "promises" she got from those towers, no, sink holes of integrity,  Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.   And anyone who believes those are going to be made law is as stupid as she hopes her supporters are.

Susan Collins has finally, unmistakably, undeniably shown what she has always been, a right-wing Republican who needs to sometimes act as a "moderate" to have gulled enough Maine voters into putting and keeping her in office.   She has traded on the Maine tradition of treating women in politics well, and to be polite to them - that's something that if you don't live in Maine and follow Maine politics you might consider a sexist remark but this is political reality and that phenomenon is something she and Olympia Snowe used to gull voters in Maine with for decades.   She did it in a party which has consistently treated women and poor people, of whom Maine has a very large number, abominably,

Susan Collins has also benefitted from the effective one-party media in Maine - previously the print media but now mostly the media with a real political effect, the electronic media.   In Maine even the "public radio" has an obvious and strong pro-Republican bias.   It has always and still does treat Susan Collins like a queen about whom nothing bad is to be said.   Well, let's hope at least that much is over, though I doubt it as they're touting Paul LePage's wife and a proposed Constitutional Amendment she's pushing as I type this out.