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Being Susan Collins Means Never Saying "Sorry"

Collins Cast the Deciding Vote to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh and She's Only "Disappointed" That He Lied to Her

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Tara Devlin
Jun 21, 2026
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Susan Collins has spent decades cultivating her brand as the "reasonable" Republican — the moderate who occasionally furrowed her brow at her party's excesses before voting with them anyway. Her perpetual "concern" has long ago curdled into a punchline, but Collins kept performing it because the corporate media kept rewarding her for it.

It was clear tha…

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