A Political Career that Deserves the Same Fate as the Iowa Caucuses
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Welcome back to the Susan Collins comedy hour:
Republican Senator Susan Collins announced Tuesday she will vote to acquit President Trump in his Senate trial, telling CBS News she believes the president has learned a “pretty big lesson” from impeachment and will be “much more cautious” about seeking foreign assistance in the future.
“I believe that the president has learned from this case,” Collins said in an exclusive interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell on Tuesday, before a speech on the Senate floor about her decision. “The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Leaving aside the obvious fact that it’s hard to see how the Senate Republican conference making it plain that they’ll have his back no matter what he does creates any disincentive for future misconduct, the extortion scheme that got him impeached happened immediately after the Mueller Report refused to hold him accountable.
Thus concludes today’s installment of “Susan Collins is a shameless liar, not a total imbecile.”