Senator Susan Collins (R-ME): Suggest Keeping Your Mouth Closed Because When you Open It, You Insert Your Foot!
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is voting the low road to her defeat in her upcoming senate race next year. Because the Senator’s press person Blake is not answering email requests from the press, this blogger called her Washington, DC office. A senate staffer who answered the phone confirmed today that she has agreed to support Convicted Felon Trump’s nomination Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to run the Department of Health & Human Services.
The senate staffer said that the vote is expected to take place later today. Hours following her declaration, the vote on RFK, Jr. was changed to Thursday morning at 10:30 am.
In a long statement read in its entirety to this blogger by a staffer in her office this afternoon, the Senator never says that RFK, Jr. is qualified for the position. She never says that he is the right person for this position because of his scientific education, experience in the medical field, temperment or as an administrator of some major entity. Collins gives no reason for her support of RFK, Jr.; it’s clear the only reason is that Elon Musk demands it.
Rather, Colllins’ support for Kennedy is based exclusively on the promises he made to her in exchange for her vote of support. Anti-vaxxer Kennedy promised to support the development of a vaccine for Lyme disease. But this slimy lawyer didn’t promise to make enough for distribution to those who want it. (Remember how he petitioned the government to hold back on the production of the COVID vaccine?) Kennedy promised the lying Collins he’d support research for both chronic and infectious diseases in this statement.
His rewriting of his past included a statement according to Collins that he believes in the “efficiency of the polio vaccine.” Kennedy said that he would “help restore Americans’ confidence in vaccines and our health agencies.” Furthermore, Kennedy agreed to have “regular meetings” with the Chairman of the Health Committee, Bill Cassidy (R-LA) who supports Kennedy even though he is a retired medical physician. (That’s reassuring!) Suddenly, the senate staffer from Scarborough had to hang up because she had a long line of people calling the office she said.
Not that long ago, the lying Senator placed her confidence in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when she voted to support his appointment to be an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh assured senators at his confirmation hearing that Roe was “settled” law trying to suggest that he would not vote to dismantle this federal protection for women’s health care. Collins cried out oh so loud and in utter shock and disbelief – Kavanaugh LIED to her when he voted to revoke Roe’s protection for women’s health care. Imagine that! A lier on the Supreme Court. That lie of yours won’t work again Senator Collins. Unfortunately for the state of Mane and once again, Collins has succumbed to Elon Musk’s threats to primary her. (Please visit posts herein dated February 6, 2025, for piece on how Collins’ has “caved” to Elon Musk when she voted for Russell Vought, for White House budget czar and a post herein dated August 29, 2018 in which Maine lawyers urged Collins not to support Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court based on his record on women’s health issues).
RFK, Jr.’s cousin Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, called him a “predator who puts live animals in food blenders” to feed his birds of prey.
CF Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our democracy and Collins is complicit in that destruction. Her legacy as a coward is what she leaves to the voters of Maine. Collins doesn’t want much for Maine. The state of Maine needs a Democrat who thinks residents deserve better than Collins does. She’s so different from the late Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) who stood up to Senator Joe McCarthy.
If you want to call the Collins office to register your view, please call in DC: 202-224-2523. The Portland Office number is: 207 – 618-5560. But, that office is not accepting calls from the public – “But Have a Nice Day” is the message from the answering service. Collins press release contact in DC is Blake Kernen if you want to go right to the “horses mouth.”