Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins has been hoping that people would stop asking her about how she’s doing her job! Sen. Collins’ single redeeming quality has been her nominal pro-choice stance. Meaning that, for all of the humiliations someone like Collins must face being around rats like Mitch McConnell, she was willing to go against her political party’s belief that women-do-not-have-the-same-rights-to-their-own-bodies-that-men-do. With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by likely sexual assaulter Donald Trump, Sen. Collins has been doing a most untoward dance of hemming and hawing. Now, with allegations surfacing that Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape a fellow high school student back in the 1980s, Collins is under even more pressure to stop playing pretend with her decision and be a goddamn human being.
Back in November of 2017, Sen. Collins seemed to have no such ambivalence when it came to allegations that then Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) had forced himself on a fellow entertainer during a USO tour, and groped a woman during a photo op while campaigning in Minnesota.
The allegations against Sen. Al Franken are “credible, disgusting and appalling and degrading to women,” Sen. Susan Collins ... told host George Stephanopoulos.
Sen. Collins’ unwillingness to maintain a standard here cheapens the claim that she actually believed Franken’s actions were degrading to women. It makes it seem like her position was solely political in nature and had next to nothing to do with her moral or intellectual values. Her inability to show the same clear intentions around Brett Kavanaugh degrade the women who have voted for her in her state.
Pathetic.
Sen. Collins has received a package of 3,000 coat hangers in the mail as a tactic to try to get her to vote against confirmation of Kavanaugh, and with the victim of the nominee’s alleged sexual assault going public, the pressure continues. Republican men have rushed to protest too much about how any one of them could be accused of sexual misconduct. They’re right. Anyone can. But considering how clearly these Republicans were willing to throw Democratic officials out of office over accusations of sexual misconduct, it seems a bit peculiar that they wouldn’t want to do their due diligence when it comes to Kavanaugh. I mean, Sen. Al Franken resigned his temporary position as Senator. Brett Kavanaugh is potentially going to become a judge of all federal laws for the rest of his life.
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