She’s been around too long to have just fallen off the turnip truck.
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I take back ANYTHING I may have said in the past about Susan Collins being reasonable. This latest statement is absolute confirmation that she is just playing a game to gain (she hopes) some public cover.
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And he also told her he loved her and the check is in the mail…
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Susan the Gullible (aka Susan the Predictable)
Believes McConnell promise about Medicare. Yeah, right.
Believes Trump promise about ACA supports. Yeah, right.
Believes people won’t blame her if she pretends to be concerned and votes for the bill anyway. Bingo.
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Sounds like I need more eggs and tomatoes plus the middle toes too.
Fuck that woman. There is no “moderate” in the GOP anymore. None.
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She already has that in hand. DT promised her that he would back bills stabilizing the health care law if the tax bill passes.
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Sorry BUT you’ve been had. If it’s not in this bill, it won’t happen. I thought most Senators were lawyers. Always get it in writing!!!
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Sorry, Susan. You don’t have any control over that. If Medicare is cut, everyone will lose money.
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Sucker.
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Seriously? She trusts McConnell?
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So did he pinky swear to that
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Excerpt:
More broadly, stepping back from things, if Congress passed a corporate tax reform that slashed the statutory rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, that would be a big deal. Nobody would be saying, “Those clowns haven’t accomplished anything”; they’d be saying, “Those guys achieved once-in-a-generation tax reform,” which is exactly what they hope we’ll say if they pass their cut to 20 percent. Except at a 25 percent rate, you could get the job done without including toxically unpopular provisions, and since it wouldn’t be toxically unpopular, you’d probably get some Democratic votes too.
The crazy thing is, even at this late hour it’s not too late to change this. Forget the unworkable trigger idea. Replace the 20 percent rate with a 25 percent rate. Plow the extra revenue into a mix of smaller deficits and more generous treatment of the middle class. Remind corporate America that a 25 percent rate is literally what they were asking for two years ago. And remind everyone that if Republicans cut all the way down to 20 percent and then lose power because only a crazy person elects a Republican Congress in order to see middle-class taxes go up, Democrats are going to pay for the next round of welfare state expansion by partially repealing the Trump tax cuts anyway.
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Lame attempt to deflect the blame for this travesty of a bill.
“It’s not MY FAULT I voted for it!” “McConnell LIED TO ME!!!”
Right.
Unfortunately, her voters are stupid enough to buy it, she hopes.
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What does it have to do with being reasonable. She’s been bought. They all have. Sometimes they’ll make noise about not wanting to go upstairs with their John, but there is no question as to how the day will end.
Why our credulous press gives airtime to the likes of Johnson, who does the same thing but isn’t even a little bit convincing, I’ll never know.
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What reason does she have to take McConnell at his word? And what reason does McConnell have to keep his word?
And even if McConnell does keep his word for now, the bigger problems comes a few years from now, when the federal deficit and debt get to the point where Congress either has to undo the tax cuts (and get accused of “raising taxes”) or cut Medicare and other social programs (since we know that cutting defense spending is also a political nonstarter). By then, though, McConnell may very well have left the Senate while Collins (who is 10 years younger) could still be there.
Nailed it. She is just playing a triangle defense so she can keep her donors happy and simultaneously say she is making sure her voters are being protected. People keep mistaking venal and craven for stupid - she isn’t stupid.
And by the way, why would the Republicans risk voting for such an unpopular bill that cuts taxes dramatically on corporations and the wealthiest people in our society- gee let me think, the pundits say. Why would they do this? Hmmmm. I just can’t imagine why they would do this. It is so unpopular. Good grief - I have heard more intelligent commentary coming from hogs staring at a wrist watch than I have been hearing from most of the pundits about the Donor Relief Act of 2017.
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Trump’s delusions are rubbing off. Also, Senator, you bill and Alexander-Murray don’t do what you think they do in terms of keeping healthcare affordable and available if you cut the individual mandate.
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I don’t know what the vote count is currently, but I know enough about ol’ Sue to know that she ain’t going to be the only one sticking her neck out. If there’s a small group of a few to sink it she’ll get on board, but she isn’t going to be a one-lady torpedo. She’s never had that in her.
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And we all know how honest Mitch is … If she falls for his lies…
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This person has proven herself to be even more stupid than I have been saying she is for years.
Ah, it is so nice to be proven right sometimes, even for a radical left-wing libtard ignoramus like me!
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