A federal judge in Texas on Friday said Obamacare was invalid. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday she believed the decision would be overturned.
Collins: "No reason" that "all of the good provisions" of Obamacare can't exist without the individual mandate. pic.twitter.com/w1UHPMBLs2
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 16, 2018
It sure ought to be.
I suspect the judge may be a conservative person and has tried to follow trump’s dictum to destroy anything Obama related. But I don’t know that for sure.
A sign of how thoroughly corrupt and insular the Washington press establishment continues to be is the fact that anyone regards Susan Collins, who manages to be both mealy-mouthed and deeply duplicitous, as an expert whose opinion is worth the time it takes to pin a microphone to her lapel.
She’s a liar: she’s a tool of the McConnell machine: she serves the dark money interests at the expense of her own constituents, the suffering citizens of Maine. She betrayed the Affordable Care Act when instructed to do so by Mitch McConnell, and rationalized the betrayal with some vague blather that any decent journalist could have blown up with three or four pointed questions (only luckily for the Republicans, reporters have a kind of gentlemen’s agreement never to ask them those kinds of questions), exposing herself for the really scummy politician she has always been.
Yet the Beltway press respectfully solicits her opinion, on the topic of a piece of legislation that would have been in a considerably stronger position if she had not followed orders, and poisoned it for Mitch.
Gah.
Fuck Susan Collins.
So she’s hoping that legislation she could not support with her vote is upheld? My “Susan Collins RAGE meter” is going to explode.
I don’t like to begin my Sunday mornings with a volley of curses, but that’s what this article makes me feel like doing. Collins voted to kill the mandate when she went along with the GOP’s deficit-busting giveaway to their corporate overlords. She is utterly despicable.