#SidekickSue

[dajoki]

Collins earns a new nickname in Moscow Mitch's impeachment game: Sidekick Sue
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915478/-Collins-earns-a-new-nickname-in-Moscow-Mitch-s-impeachment-game-Sidekick-Sue

There's a new nickname for Maine Sen. Susan Collins floating around the internet: It’s #SidekickSue, in recognition that she's Moscow Mitch McConnell’s most valuable player when he's trying to fix a Senate vote. That the fix was in (and that she had a key role in it) was glaringly apparently Thursday night in the choreographed release of statements from Collins and Sen. Lamar Alexander regarding whether they wanted to compel additional witnesses and testimony in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. (Collins said yea, while Alexander said nay.)

The final cynical fillip came Friday morning from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the other reliable player in McConnell's game, with her duplicitous embrace of the cover-up with crocodile tears: "It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed." But she did her job for McConnell, and she's providing the cover Collins needs. It's not going to work this time.

The jig has been up for Collins since she betrayed every principle she previously touted and voted in favor of Brett Kavanaugh’s conformation to the Supreme Court. "Just as we've known she would, Collins announced her support for witnesses only when the votes were fixed to block witnesses and rig the trial to cover-up the corruption of Donald Trump," Marie Follayttar, co-director of Mainers for Accountable Leadership, told Common Dreams. "We see Collins for who she is—Sidekick Sue to Moscow Mitch and a corrupt and despotic Trump."

[NightWatcher]

1. Why not Comrade Collins?

[The Genealogist]

2. She's a crappy actor

I find her performances utterly unconvincing. Perhaps many in this country who are aware of her existence are won over by her ridiculous performances, but to me it is quite clear that she simply plays at being a moderate. With most Republicans, everyone knows you're going to get a hatemongering misanthrope, sponsored by the wealthy and the christofascists. What makes Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski for that matter, even more disgusting is the pretense of being something other than hatemongering misanthropes.