HRH Susan Collins is not amused that people don't trust her after so soon flipping on what is certainly one of the worst bills not dealing directly with war making to come out of Congress in decades, possibly the worst tax bill in modern history, which is designed to destroy the very American Care Act which she and two other Republican flippers made such a show of saving mere weeks ago. She had no problem basking in the praise she got then, now she's royally pissed that people are asking what she got for what she did.
Her phony fig-leaves, her alleged promises from Trump and McConnell to allow her to make a show of mitigating the damage to the healthcare of 13 million immediately and, as the market blows up, to many tens of millions more, are dead before arrival - the House will certainly never vote for them, Trump whose attention span often left him contradicting himself within the same tweet BEFORE THE CHARACTER LIMIT WAS DOUBLED - well, that part of her song and dance of distraction was never credible for a second.
She got something for herself, the quid for the quo. Some have speculated it's a promise of a position in the administration, some have speculated it was other things, I wouldn't be surprised at anything, including a money payment. Why should anyone be with what they did to get Bob Corker to flip when they introduced measures that would make him a bundle?
Susan Collins will not handle this well, she isn't used to critical attention and it's going to be interesting to see how she takes it. Her tactic of calling sexism is extremely rich, considering who the President of her party is, who the Congressional leadership of it is, who her colleagues are, who the Republican governor of her state WHO SHE ENDORSED is. Her party is the locus of sexism even as it is the locus of racism in American politics.
I hope this means that her reign as the Queen of Maine is over and now we can treat her as the politician from a totally corrupt party that she is.
The selling out of America proceeds apace. They're cashing in as fast as they can before they have to leave town.....
ReplyDeleteIt was one of the big mistakes they made in Athens, after the defeat of that first putsch, to not make them give back what they'd stolen. I'm sure it contributed to the motivation for them to try again. I think I.F. Stone's theory that it was Socrates connection to the putschists that led to them deciding to get rid of him is believable.
DeleteI hope the whole thing blows before the next election because it's going to take something really huge to educate enough of the bemused, beguiled, re-gulled.