Susan The Sucker

Susan Collins is going into her repeat ritual dance of indecision on voting to put the purjurer and partisan thug, Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court where she knows, as everyone knows, he will be a vote for a whole program of extreme right-wing things she has to pretend to not favor in order to gull the voters of Maine to, again, return her to the Senate.  She gets some of her best national media from that dance performance, she'll do it whatever.

The fact that after Democratic Senators have released the suppressed documents proving it, she can not pretend to not know that Brett Kavanaugh's assurance to her on Roe v. Wade was the lie that she and he and everyone else knew it was is any kind of an assurance she won't calculate that she gets more from voting for him than against putting him on the court to overturn Roe.  I'll talk more about that kind of ritual open lie later

As with her last noted suckering, in her vote for the American Care Act damaging billionaire tax bonanza on the assurance of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump that she'd get a vote to correct that (a vote which was certain to fail even if Paul Ryan let it come to the floor in the house, it was that big a fraud), only for them to immediately say, forget about it, punk, she knows damn well that Brett Kavanaugh's assurance to her on Roe is the same thing.

She knows this dance backwards and forwards she's the Ginger Rogers of this dance step, she's danced it her entire political career running as a "moderate" in a state which would never have voted for someone who openly voted for what she has, in fact, supported in her votes.  She has voted for almost the entire line of anti-woman, anti-choice, anti-decency judges that any Republican has put up.   Her "moderation" even in scare quotes is a total fraud, a line to be piously repeated for and by the media, in Maine but also the national media.

Susan is a professional sucker, Susan the Sucker.  That is the name of any honest biograpy of her that gets written, though the text of the book, if it is honest, will have to point out that she knew her ritual suckering is an act.  At this point it's happened so often that the media and voters know their role in the act.  I'm not writing this expecting that Susan or the Republican media in Maine will give it up, I'm writing it because there is a chance that the voters in Maine might realize they don't have to buy that tired old, too often played act anymore.