Sustainability and Politics: February 2020: Senator Susan Collin’s Faux Moderate Schtick Exposed

Sunday, February 9, 2020

February 2020: Senator Susan Collin’s Faux Moderate Schtick Exposed

What a week for Maine Sen. Susan Collins, huh? National laughingstock video here National laughingstock commentary here

Collins' colleague, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, provided a master class in political principle, courage, and independence—you know, all those qualities Collins has pretended to possess during her too-long Senate career.

Collins looked particularly gutless after the cringe-inducing interview she gave CBS to explain her vote to acquit impeached president Donald Trump, in which she said "I believe that the president has learned from this case."

How much has Trump learned? Trump said he disagreed with Collins when asked about her comment by reporters. He said "It was a perfect call."

Collins, made to look like a fool by the president she'd just voted to acquit, walked back her previous statement and said she "hopes" Trump learned his lesson.

But fat chance of that! Just hours after Collins declared that Trump seeking political retribution against government officials who testified against him would be inappropriate, he axed Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council.

Now she's a national laughing stock, and the target of Saturday Night Live skits and Stephen Colbert monologues.

But wait! The week wasn't over yet for Clown Collins! She had one last chance to save face, and bravely told local Maine media that she was "not going to discuss presidential politics at a time like this"—you know,presidential election year.

Susan Collins has skated by in election after election with her faux moderate schtick. But now, after votes to pass Trump's tax scam in 2017, confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, and acquit Donald Trump this week, she can't hide from the fact that she's a right-wing hack.

Chip in now to beat Collins and break Moscow Mitch McConnell's majority.

Keep fighting,
Joan McCarter, Daily Kos

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.