Collins The Hypocrite Complains When The Campaign Fiance System Her Supreme Court Majority Put In Place Is Used By Common People

Susan Collins and her fellow Republican Gilded Agers are whining that those nasty non-billionaries are using the system their appointees to the Supreme Court created.

On Monday, Sen. Susan Collins accused political opponents of Judge Brett Kavanaugh of attempted “bribery.” The charge itself is without any legal merit whatsoever. That complaints about the campaign finance effort came from Collins, Republican election lawyer Cleta Mitchell, and an aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell make the episode almost too rich to be believed. Their cries of bribery, illegality, and lack of principle lay bare the bankrupt campaign finance system that Mitchell and McConnell helped create and that Collins has contributed to with previous Supreme Court votes and will supersize with her likely vote to confirm Kavanaugh.

Collins labeled as a “bribe” a fundraising plan by two progressive Maine groups, aided by the company Crowdpac, to raise funds for Collins’ eventual opponent in 2020. People are pledging to give money via Crowdpac to that unknown future opponent, but donors will only be charged for the donation if Collins votes “yes” on Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. As of Tuesday night, the groups reported pledged donations of more than $1 million, with a $1.3 million goal. There were more than 39,000 individual pledges ranging from $1 to the maximum allowable donation to a candidate of $2,700.

If there's any comfort to be had in the impending disaster that having the likes of Kavanaugh making law from the bench it's in the exposure of the fraud that Susan Collins is and always has been that leaves her and her supporters in the media as naked as a naked emperor.  She voted to confirm all of the current servants of the billionaires on the court and now that We The People are using it to pressure her to not cement oligarchic depravity into place for decades, she's whining like a rusty hinge. 

It's more than likely that Susan Collins will use this as an excuse to do what she was planning on doing anyway, putting the purjurer, Republican-fascist hack and coat-hanger abortion revivalist on the court.  She will strike a pose of principled resistence to pressure, the kind of pressure she welcomes when it comes from the rich.  And the media will play it up for her.  She'll either strike that pose or in her other Susan The Sucker persona, she'll fall back on Kavanaugh's obviously phony assurances to her about Roe being settled.   She's always been the same old hypocrite, it's just that in this it's all coming back on her and she's got nowhere to run and hide. 

Anyone who had a shred of decency left the Republican Party a long time ago, no one who is part of it in 2018 has any excuse to remain in it.  Susan Collins has no shred of decency left.