Never Forget That Susan Collins Is A Partisan Hack, Always Has, Always Will Be

If anyone still has any doubt that Susan Collins is just another Republican partisan hack, take a look at her interview on CNN on Friday. She concocts amazing excuses for Trump’s behavior and manages to blame Comey for the fact that Trump kept meeting with Comey in private in order to encourage him to shut down his investigation.

In the interview, she said, “The first interaction that the President had with Mr. Comey back in early January at Trump Tower, it was the FBI Director who cleared the room…I wonder if perhaps that made the President think that whenever there is some conversation to be had with the FBI director that it should be one-on-one because he had two subsequent one-on-one meetings as well as other phone calls with the FBI director. That doesn’t make it right, but ironically perhaps the FBI’s actions in that first meeting sent a signal to the President that this is how their interactions should take place.”

Please! Considering how many times he’s been sued, that proposition is taking Trump’s proven incredible ignorance to a level that simply is not possible. And I love the nice twist of blaming Comey for Trump’s actions. Partisan hackery at its best!

But since this is Susan Collins, “MODERATE!”, she has to make sure she at least rhetorically gets on both sides of the fence. She earlier stated, “This reflects the fact that this is the first President in our history who has had neither a military nor a political background, and I think he just does not fully understand or appreciate the boundaries and that it is totally wrong — I’ll go beyond inappropriate. It is wrong for the President of the United States to tell or imply to an FBI director that an investigation should not go forward.”

Gee, let’s throw a few more excuses for Trump out there before finally understating the obvious, that Trump’s actions were “wrong”. And she even went beyond Republicans’ favorite word these days, “inappropriate”.

So, having basically admitted in the weakest language possible that the President has obstructed justice, you would think that Collins might feel a need to outline what the next steps should be concerning that crime, but, of course, we heard nothing on that score.

If you believe Susan Collins is going to stop the Senate from taking health care from millions in order to give tax cuts to the top 1%, I’m afraid you will be sadly disappointed. If Mitch McConnell has the 50 votes he needs, we may get Collins’ vote. But if McConnell needs her vote, she will provide it. She always has and always will. Because Collins is just another partisan hack. She only plays a “MODERATE!” on TV.