Who Does Susan Collins Think She's Fooling?

Susan Collins has apparently started building her excuse for voting against calling witnesses - I'd say she was building her excuse for voting to acquit Trump but I've never been in any doubt as to her ultimate vote on that.  And that's even before we found out that the Trump regime is openly intimidating the Republican-fascists on the "jury" that the Senate is pretended to be in this.  

Sen. Susan Collins was “stunned” by Rep. Jerry Nadler’s late-night diatribe this week against what he deemed a “cover-up” by Senate Republicans for President Donald Trump — so much so that she wrote a note to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. But the Maine Republican said it will not affect her votes during the Senate’s impeachment trial.

In an interview on Thursday, Collins confirmed that she had jotted down a note that eventually made its way to Roberts via Secretary for the Majority Laura Dove. Collins said she believed the back and forth between House Judiciary Chairman Nadler (D-N.Y.) and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone violated Senate rules and felt compelled to point that out, even though senators are required to stay at their desks and not speak during the trial.

“It reminded me that if we were in a normal debate in the Senate, that the rule would be invoked to strike the words of the senator for impugning another senator. So I did write a note raising the issue of whether there’d been a violation of the rules,” Collins said. “I gave that note to Laura Dove and shortly thereafter the chief justice did admonish both sides. And I was glad that he did.”

You'll note the skank made Jerry Nadler's calling out the bald-faced, outrageous lies told by Cipollone and his fellow liars the focus of her feigned outrage and not their lies.  This is a well rehearsed part of the Susan Collins two-faced-double-talking-two-step of hypocrisy and self-serving accommodation with Republican fascism.   The media will pretend they don't see it even as they've seen it hundreds of times from Susan Collins and a somewhat more skilled performance of the same dance step by Olympia Snowe in the past.  Everyone knows that the scumbag is going through the motions. Everyone in the Maine media knows it, probably better than any other part of the media.  But no one else can be fooled by it now. 

I was tempted, above, to call this week's exercise a farce because, as the second presidential impeachment many of us have seen, most of both productions have been farces.  But that's not exactly honest in this because the House Managers have raised this far higher than things generally get in the House and almost never do in the Senate, what Roberts farcically and, I'm guessing ironically, noted likes to consider itself the worlds greatest deliberative body.  I think the House part of this is the only part of it in which the great benefits of democratic government are on display.  And that is due, solely, to the people who are in charge there,  Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff,  Jerrold Nadler, Maxine Waters, etc.  The other, excellent members of the House Managers.  

Compared to them the Senate under Republican-fascism is an abomination, Susan Collins as much as Midnight-Mitch-Putin's Bitch and Lindsay Graham, Trump's Bitch, as all of the Republicans are about to prove themselves to be.