Susan Collins "explodes" over broken promise

[avebury]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/10/1740368/-Politico-Susan-Collins-explodes-at-broken-promise-to-hold-vote-on-guaranteeing-health-insurer-pay??detail=emaildkre

According to Politico, Susan Collins is shocked to discover that the White House has broken a promise to her.

The White House had promised Collins, a moderate, that it would seek a vote before recess on guaranteeing payments to health insurers in order to stabilize Obamacare markets, a key issue for her. But under intense opposition from pro-life groups and from House conservatives, no such vote materialized.

Collins berated Short for reneging on the deal and then walked off after Short tried to explain, according to two people familiar with the exchange.

“I was disappointed the deadline slipped,” Collins told POLITICO in an interview.

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Collins is an absolute idiot.

[unblock]

1. i might believe her sincerity if she quits the republican party.

until then, i rather suspect theater.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. this

Time to fish or cut bait, Susan.

[calimary]

5. THIS.

It's gonna take more than empty words of alleged "indignation" (followed by near-certain capitulation), Senator.

[shanny]

18. Yup.

Prove you have actual integrity and grit, Senator: flip your Senate seat.

[Ligyron]

75. NO!

I think she is probably of more use as a foil to her more idiotic teabagger colleagues.

[shanny]

123. YES!

She's of no effing use at all, except as window dressing for the pukes. An enabler.

If she wants to be of actual by dawg use she can switch caucuses... Iirc that could change committee chairmanships, which would be helpful.

[samnsara]

26. at least she can become and Indy

[PatSeg]

40. That was my thought as well

I don't think that would harm her politically in her state and it would send a powerful message. Plus it is the right thing to do.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. This,,,,n/t

[IronLionZion]

41. Maine has another independent senator, it's time for her constituents to pressure her

[paulkienitz]

74. Nobody rises high in politics by being gullible.

Yeah, my bet is on theater.

[Iggo]

83. They rise high by counting on the gullible.

Which is what she's doing here.

Yep. Theater.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

99. Collins, Corker, Flake, McCain, Graham all talk and no action! Quit the republikklan party NOW!

...caucus with dems...they won't--they ARE the racists, bigoted republikkklans they're just nice at hiding their racism under "moderate" behind "christian values" they're hypocrites and liars!

Their voting record, policies against the poor, sick disenfranchised; immigrants and refugee, non white, non Christian, lgbt, and all women; as well as their complicitness towards the racist, sexual predator occupant in WH provides the rest of us of their true stance.

[ffr]

114. I think it's a RNC strategy to really fool everybody else. It's all planned this way.

And we're the ones who are the fools for thinking that conservatives are anything but crooks.

[tblue37]

107. This, exactly! nt

[uponit7771]

116. +1

[Hortensis]

124. Way past time to cut bait. She's corrupted and we knew it long ago.

Because she never did cut bait but sank lower and lower with the group. Remember, those who refused to abandon traditional conservative positions were purged over several elections some time ago, leaving those who went along to keep their cushy positions.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. If she is truly "shocked" that Shitler

broke a promise, then she is an idiot.

[brush]

39. Didn't we all ridicule her for believing that promise when it was made?

It's either "theater" or she's an idiot to believe repugs who are know to lie.

I tend to agree with you that it's the latter.

[tblue37]

108. I am sure it is the former. nt

[brush]

135. That's even worse then. Can't trust any of them.

[Iggo]

4. Is she shocked, SHOCKED?

[Stuart G]

113. Here is another person who clearly is "SHOCKED" !!!!!

[Iggo]

115. Yeah, buddy.

[SCVDem]

121. You are reading my mind! nt

[Lifelong Protester]

143. Beat me to it!!

[Hugin]

6. Does it count as an explosion if you knew all along it was going to happen?

I suppose so.

[jrthin]

7. She's just shocked for the cameras. n/t

[phleshdef]

8. Didn't she act all offended when people said she was being naive about that before?

I remember something along the lines of her actually saying it was sexist to doubt her confidence.

[liberalhistorian]

142. I'm sure that was all a part of the

scripted act, as well. At this point, the University of Maine should give her an honorary theater degree. She's earned it these past several performances.

[Chemisse]

9. The GOP broke a promise to her not too long ago as well.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/365922-broken-health-care-pledge-tests-collins-mcconnell-relationship

So yeah, she was dumb to trust any of her fellow Republicans, and certainly not the mercurial White House.

[BoneyardDem]

10. Pretty sure most on DU called it immediately upon hearing the "deal"

what a horrid lesson for all of us to live!!

[Phoenix61]

11. I'm calling BS on this

She knew damn well she was being lied to. It just gave her political cover so she can say she was trying to help.

[eleny]

24. This rings true to me

Republicans make the right noises now and then and we give them the benefit of the doubt after that. But I think you're right about Collins. It's an act.

So unless she switches parties for the sake of the country she's just playing games with us. It's time for me to send her an email or call her office and tell her that.

Thanks for the nudge.

[smirkymonkey]

47. Exactly! Her little "shocked" act is insulting to anyone with half a brain.

She knew exactly what they would do. She isn't shocked, she's playing it up for political reasons.

[Pobeka]

151. Looky, she's another "victim" of trump too.

Now we can sympathize with her and support her more than ever.

[niyad]

12. this wasn't from the Onion?????

[malaise]

13. A promise from a ReTHUG is a comfort to a

FOOL.

She'll never learn.

[Faux pas]

14. Guess everyone

EXCEPT her saw that coming.

[Angry Dragon]

82. So True

[Orsino]

15. Our youngest serving senator was born yesterday, and she's already talking...

...out her ass.

Broken promises are the only kind of Trump promises.

[Codeine]

16. Oh please. Plausible deniabilty

so she can posture as a moderate. She’s no more trustworthy than the Tangerine Idi Amin in whom she’s supposedly so disappointed.

[spanone]

17. she's not that naive

[unblock]

19. in a related story, charlie brown "shocked" over lucy taking away football at last minute.

[femmedem]

134. Exactly! n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Surprise surprise

[riversedge]

21. Take care of the sick should be her motto (Not trust Trump)

[klook]

170. Republican motto is "Take care of

the sick fucks."

[edhopper]

22. BULLSHIT Ms Collins

You were told by pretty much everybody when you tried to get cover to vote for the Tax Cut that you knew was irresponsible.

Nice Claude Rains - Casablanca impression.

[Maven]

23. Not buying this little charade anymore Sen. Collins.

You're done in 2022.

[Ohiya]

25. But, maybe the next time, they won't lie!

[not fooled]

138. Here, Susan

[link:|]

[NCTraveler]

27. Worked out exactly as she had planned. nt.

[Ken Burch]

28. She needs to either quit the party or not run for re-election.

There's no way she can sustain her position within the GOP of today.

[Doodley]

29. She is shocked at what we all knew.

[Gothmog]

30. Collins was played for as a fool

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. What the hell did she think would happen?

Hasn't she figured out yet what she's dealing with?

[janterry]

32. So, what are you going to do, Susan

You've walked off. Now what??

[vi5]

34. Maybe we can "reach out to her" some more...

.....and I'm sure that will yield as many dividends and results as "reaching out" to Trump voters.

[LonePirate]

35. Unless she does something in response, her anger and bluster are all for show.

[Polly Hennessey]

36. Oh, my, little Susan.

You are shocked again (multiple agains) that your fellow liars lied to you. You have used up all of your “crying wolf” excuses and your moderate Republican cover. Tears of a fool.

[liberalhistorian]

144. Wake up, little Susie, wake up!

Wake up, little Susie, wake up!

The GOP wasn't so hot
They made up quite a little plot
They used you again
Leaving us to wonder when
You'll quit giving them a shot
Wake up, little Susie!
Wake up, little Susie!
It's time to get real

[atreides1]

37. "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

Susan Collins was shocked, much like Captain Renault was shocked that gambling was taking place at "Rick's Café Américain", while getting his winnings, in Casablanca!

Captain Renault won 20,000 francs...I wonder what Collins got???

[Stuart G]

112. Here is the 20 second clip.....enjoy. "Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here"

"Here is your winnings, sir"

[greymattermom]

38. She acts like an abused wife

coming back for more every time. Until finally, maybe, she gets it.

[DFW]

42. I think her explosion is being made to look a fool out in the open

She's a long-term Republican in the U.S. Senate. She knew perfectly well what was going on. She knows who those bills are screwing and who they aren't and she doesn't care. What she cares about is being made to look like a fool when she was perfectly willing to express "impatience and disappointment" later on down the line, when the storm had died down a little. Anyone, in Maine or beyond, who thinks she gives a damn about who gets health care coverage and who doesn't is not up on what it means to be a Republican these days.

[Vogon_Glory]

43. Susan Collins is either a chump or lying about those promises

Ample reason for her betrayed constituents to fire her at the next election.

(Now if Texas voters could see fit to use such reasoning regarding the Republican junior senator from Texas, who is standing for re-election this year...)

[elmac]

44. crocodile tears

all republicans are uncaring fascist pigs.

[Drahthaardogs]

45. Frog, meet Scorpion.

Didn't see that coming.

[Hulk]

46. Such a naive dolt.

Honest to God, this damned fool jackass needs to get the fook out of Congress. She is so damned naive and gullible to believe her gop is EVER going to keep a promise?

G'damned ignorant old fool. This is not Eisenhower's gop...and hasn't been since "I am not a crook" infected their party, and ronnie the b-rated actor transfixed them all into a never ending fog of stupidity.

Wake up Maine!

[Skittles]

48. she is either lying or dumber than all fuck

honestly, I believe she was complicit

[Cryptoad]

49. Surprise,,,,, Surprise,,,,, Surprise!!!!!!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

50. Why does the media continue to pretend this asshole is anything other than

what she is? Either she's in on it. Or she's as stupid as the average 'Puke voter.

[BlueDog22]

51. Collins

Collins was one of the few GOP members that I respected until the Trump administration. She takes known liars for their word. You should never do that.

[SamKnause]

52. EVIL FUCKING LIARS lying to one another !!!!!!!!!

That's rich.

[BlueDog22]

78. Surprised?

I'm not.

[maxrandb]

53. I'm Shocked....SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!!!!

That people still put "moderate" next to this POS' name.

Dear Susan, A message from those of us sick of your "Good Cop-Bad Cop" routine:

"Go Fuck Yourself sideways with a First Edition, hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit!"

Asshats like McConnell and Ryan are bad enough, but at least they have the decency to advertise their dickishness. With them, we know exactly what we're dealing with.

You, on the other hand, are a "special kind of evil". You've spent your entire life hood-winking people into thinking you're something you're not...

There is a special place in Hell, below the level that Ryan and McConnell and Trump will occupy, reserved especially for people like you.

[barbtries]

127. unfortunately i just spent my last heart

or i'd be giving it to you! i like your word choice.

[rlegro]

54. At this point in her career....

We should believe nothing that comes out of her mouth unless she delivers up front, which increasingly is going to mean a decision to shift over to being an independent or a Democrat. Nothing short of that could make up for the damage she's caused buying into Trump BS.

[Saviolo]

55. A verbal promise from Trump is worth the paper it's printed on.

Sorry, Susan. Did Trump make it look like you threw your constituents under the bus for a chance at a big tax break? Well, if the shoe fits...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

56. One word to describe Sen. Collins:

[eShirl]

57. Remember how mad she was when we told her she was being gullible?

It's all an act, or she really is that dumb.

[jalan48]

58. Either Collins is playing a game or she is really, really dumb.

[CrispyQ]

59. Her role, just like that of McCain, Graham, Flake & others who have spoken out against Trump,

is to reassure moderate republicans that their party has not gone completely off the rails & that this is just an aberration that will pass. And thanks to hate radio & Fox, most of these republicans would rather vote for Satan than a dem.

[dem4decades]

60. Such a phony.

[PatrickforO]

61. What the hell did she THINK was going to happen?

The corruption, hatred and utter lack of compassion of these people is just puke-inducing.

[AllyCat]

62. Senator Collins, there is this really funny and classic cartoon I think you might find humorous...

...or not:

[link:/revision/latest?cb=20100523172400|

[dalton99a]

63. What a load of crock

She knew

[Jakes Progress]

64. Another republican phony unless

she joins Angus King as an independent. That is how the mythical character (a principled republican) could actually do something meaningful to move the republican party away from its steady march toward total totalitarianism. If one vote away from losing chairmanships wouldn't shake up the trump butt kissers, they are truly as stupid as they seem.

[Atticus]

65. Water is wet; fire is hot; Dracula has an overbite; and Trump is a liar. IF she in fact believed

him, she is dumber than a box or rocks.

[awesomerwb1]

66. So she's a republican who

has seen her party LIE and LIE and LIE. Yet she expected them to keep a "promise" they made to her to get her vote?

Sucker.

Seriously??

[sprinkleeninow]

67. Hay Susan! Put your money where your mouth is!

Get outta that foolish repube branch.

[AtheistCrusader]

68. 'Pro-Life groups', if ever there was a violation of Truth In Advertising....

[BamaRefugee]

69. and she'll be saying "AYE" to every Rethuglican proposal as soon as she's back, fuck these people

[Vinca]

70. It's hard to imagine Collins is as gullible as it seems she's turned out to be.

You can't trust Trump on anything. If he says it's raining, don't open your umbrella until you stick your hand out the door.

[cstanleytech]

71. No, she is not an idiot rather she is trying to pretend she did not know all along that

they were going to not do anything and now she is trying to build a firewall between her and the voters that are going to want her head on a pike come election time.

[Solly Mack]

72. Does she really think we don't know she's full of shit?

[Demsrule86]

73. She is completely full of shit. Vote her out...liar is what she is.

[magicarpet]

76. Mainah here.... Collins is an idiot to believe Orange Skid Mark.

[Dave Starsky]

77. What an idiot.

Not that she was "fooled", but to think that anyone would believe her bullshit.

Even Dubya had Trump figured out.

[Upthevibe]

79. She's such a disappointment...

She needs to either switch parties and become a Democrat or an Independent...

[DemoTex]

80. Manufactured outrage ..

She talks the talk, but does not walk the walk.

[Raster]

81. Bullshit... kabuki theater... we can expect more of this...

...as more Rethug Senators and Reps have a full realization that they are going to have to answer to PISSED OFF constituents.

ANYONE that would trust ANYONE in this White House is a MORON.

[mvd]

84. Oh, she'll rant, but will it really lead to anything?

Visions of a giant tax cut for the rich clouded her judgment, and I feel it would happen again. She needs to prove she'll put country over party.

[Shrike47]

87. None of them will put country over party. She should be ashamed.

That outcome was widely predicted.

[mvd]

91. Yep

Nothing to indicate this is more than just bluster.

[uponit7771]

117. Not a damn thang, they'll lie again and she'll believe then again

[pamdb]

85. Susan Collins

Ha Ha Ha, how long has this woman been a senator?

[heaven05]

86. her "explosion" means shit

She has been around long enough to know the level of trust one must have with snakes. No pass on her TOTAL failure of LEADERSHP!!!!!! There that's my "explosion". And she attacked Franken. 0

[TCJ70]

88. "And many brows were furrowed that day"

That's the most outrage you'll get from the GOP these days.

[toddwv]

89. Susan Collins either knew exactly what was going to happen, or she is a dumbass.

[longship]

90. You fucked up; you trusted us!

[UpInArms]

92. Collins is such a tool

And, also, a fool.

[The Conductor]

93. Foolish...

Well, that was a mistake. Sen. Collins for got the Old Conductor's Law: the person who will lie "for you" will just as easily lie to you and about you.

[Stuart G]

94. As others have said..Collins, and one more, need to switch to the Democratic party..now!

Let's say in the next few days, Collins and Flake switch to the Democratic party. Today is Monday..so the switch is in the next 4 or 5 days. Schumer becomes the majority leader in the senate.


Revenge will be sweat if that is what she wants. Maybe some other moderate republicans will switch. If she wants to show them who the boss is, and that keeping your word is that important, that is what she needs to do. She has to get one more republican senator to switch. The two of switchers will kick Trump and McConnell in the balls, in ways that no one could have possibly imagined.

Then and only then, will they learn that you keep your word..If that is the real problem

If she is really mad, that is what is going to happen. This is about stabilizing Obamacare markets. And also keeping affordable health insurance available to all, and saving lives as a result

If Collins cares about "saving lives" she will switch, and she will switch with someone else. That is the only solution if she was promised, and they lied on that promise....Trump and McConnell will never forget this...never...McConnell being demoted would be incredible..!!!!!!!!! (and not next January, but NOW!!!)

[ashling]

95. Wake up Little Suzy

[BigDemVoter]

96. What a dumb ASS.

[ananda]

97. This is just CYA.

She knew all along.

[catbyte]

98. Oh, cry me a river. She's a Republican, she should know better.

Lying & breaking promises are what they do.

[beachbum bob]

100. so thats an explosion?...just PR, collins could care less

[regnaD kciN]

101. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell ya!

[TeamPooka]

102. The best lie in that article is that Colllins is a "moderate."

[kstewart33]

103. Oh, give me a break.

She's a smart woman. She had to know that the promise was worthless. It was her excuse to vote for the bill.

[zentrum]

104. Your sum up is

……perfect.

[tavernier]

105. Oh Susan...

I was born at night, but not Last night.
I’ve seen you play this game before. I don’t think that you are even embarrassed at the way they are insulting your gender, not to mention your position.

[Weed Man]

106. Uh-huh.

What else is new, Stupid Collins?

You fell for it, hook line and sinker.

You should stop being a Republican and announce your resignation and demand that LePage hold special elections instead of appointing himself (and eventually getting himself expulsed by the Ethics Committee)

[NRaleighLiberal]

109. I remember our unanimous reaction here at DU that day - what a sucker play.

[Martin Eden]

110. "opposition from pro-life groups"

We're through the looking glass when "pro life" groups want to strip people of health care.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

111. BS, if she is that fucking dumb, she needs to be removed from office and put in a nursing home.

[rainin]

118. So, she was more afraid of looking like a traitor than looking like a fool?

When her constituents can't go to the doctor, does she think they will let her off the hook? Who does she think she's fooling?

[mcar]

119. She cannot possibly be that stupid

[JHB]

120. Lawmaker explodes that 1-way Street is 1-way...

“It used to be two-way! I clearly remember driving down it in the other direction.”

DOT records indicate the street was changed to 1-way in 1978.

[Hekate]

122. Encourage her to register as an Independent

[budkin]

125. Screw her

What the hell did she expect would happen?

[barbtries]

126. i had to laugh.

give me a break you wretched republican you. aargh

this somehow reminds me of gw's war in Iraq. I knew it was bullshit before it began. I'm just a normal everyday person who pays attention. those people in congress HAD to know as well. their "surprise" was disgusting. so is hers.

[lark]

128. Collins, lots more words than actions.

When it's really real, she always totally folds.

[RhodeIslandOne]

129. Wasn't she the one whining about people thinking she was stupid and it was sexist to criticize her?

Well, Susan, dinner is served.

[Takket]

130. i think at the time i read at least 1000 posts on DU saying she was an absolute idiot

for believing she would ever get her vote.

[DallasNE]

131. Who Didn't See This Coming

I mean, except for Susan Collins. I mean I safely predicted at the time that this would never come up for a vote.

[DoctorJoJo]

132. Thankfully, Mainers Are Going To Ride Her Out Of Town On A Rail!

Collins is as gullible a dimwit that has ever served in Congress!

[doc03]

161. Mainers? aren't they called Mainiacs

[Honeycombe8]

133. She's too trusting. Now she knows. (If she didn't already.)

It's possible she knew, because of past behavior, that she was just being promised something that wouldn't materialize, so she grabbed that excuse, knowing (wink wink) that it wouldn't materialize. So she can say she was duped.

[kairos12]

136. Shocking. What a dupe!

[Jim Lane]

137. Gene McCarthy had her type pegged half a century ago.

"The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle."

[tavernier]

167. Brilliant

I have to remember that.

[jimlup]

139. Gee Susan, yah think?

She is sad in her nativity.

[Orangepeel]

140. Idiot, sure. Poser, definitely.

[trueblue2007]

141. she needs to LEAVE the Gop and urge other repub women to leave also ... and join the Democratic par

[fishwax]

145. gee, who could have seen that coming?

[McCamy Taylor]

146. Did her organs hit the ceiling? Was there blood everywhere?

Did she throw furniture? Pull out her hair? Dudes, don't get my hopes up. It sounds to me like she was mildly annoyed at worst.

[xxqqqzme]

147. A lie on top of a lie.

She knew she was lying when she spoke of the promise 'lie'. Seems the only ones who don't know rethuglicans lie are rethuglicans!

[Ferrets are Cool]

148. After all this time and she still believes the chit fed to her???????

[LenaBaby61]

149. "Susan Collins "explodes" over broken promise."

[NoMoreRepugs]

150. Shocking news..."Collins is an absolute idiot"

[Puzzler]

152. Quell surprise

-Puzzler

[tclambert]

153. "You fucked up. You trusted us."

[The empressof all]

154. She keeps playing this game...

It's getting old and people aren't falling for it anymore. She isn't a stupid woman. She is playing both sides and Mitch and the party are willing accomplices. Her willful ignorance is shameful and I hope the folks in Maine vote her out.....But look at the criminal they voted in for Governor...

[johnnyrocket]

155. Haha, what a sucker.

[democratisphere]

156. Susan Collins first mistake was trusting anything a redumbliCON promised!

Never, ever trust a redumbliCON!

[doc03]

157. Is she so damn stupid to belive a promise made by Trump? nt

[dawg]

158. "My friends promised me there would be NO strippers at the party ..."

"I'm so mad at them, honey!"

"I'll make them pinky-swear next time!"

[doc03]

159. On another promise Did McTurtle have that vote on the Dreamers

February 8th as promised?

[Blue Owl]

160. Oh Susan... sweet, stupid Susan...

[Beartracks]

162. C'mon Susan, you knew theirs and Trump's nature when...

.. you decided to carry their (treasonous butts across the) water.



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[hotrod0808]

163. Shouldn't this read:

"Complete idiot surprised that most dishonest President ever lied to her"?

[Hassler]

164. Collin's "Revenge"

She'll threaten to withhold a vote on some as of yet undetermined future bill. Reid on Collins: she's always there for a vote you don't need.

[world wide wally]

165. She's about 79 short of an M-80

[area51]

166. Really, Susie?

[Bradical79]

168. Idiot -nt

[efhmc]

169. Shocking if you are without any sensory abilities.