Senator Susan Collins: A Study in Disingenuousness

Senator Susan Collins - who like Obama must think everyone else is an idiot and can't discern events as the unfold in plain view - has a self-serving and disingenuous op-ed in today's Washington Post. To believe Collins, the bad behavior in Congress and in the Senate is all the fault of the Democrats. Yep, this bullshit is coming from Collins who just recently joined with the Christofascists in her party and threw LGBT American under the bus with her vote on the Defense Authorization Bill to which DADT repeal was attached. Collins conveniently ignores the fact that her party's announced goal is obstruction - plus the fact that her party has offered no real proposals for any legislation other than a reprise of the disastrous policies that took the country into two needless wars and led to a financial meltdown. Collins is clearly either on mind altering drugs or spinning PR are for the ignorant and uninformed who have been in a coma like state for the last 19 months. Her piece is a clear effort at fiction writing and deserves to be ignored. Here's a taste of the bullshit:
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I would suggest that a divided government and a more evenly split Senate are more conducive to bipartisanship than the super-majorities and one-party control of the White House and Congress that we see today. When one party has all the power, the temptation is to roll over the minority, leading to resentment and resistance because the minority has so few options.
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During the past two years, the minority party has been increasingly shut out of the discussion. Even in the Senate, which used to pride itself on being a bastion of free and open debate, procedural tactics are routinely used to prevent Republican amendments. That causes Republicans to overuse the filibuster, because our only option is to stop a bill to which we cannot offer amendments.
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This unfortunate phenomenon happened again with the recent consideration of the defense authorization bill, which included a repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. I have supported ending that policy and was the sole Republican on the Armed Services Committee to vote for repeal.
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I recognized, however, that many of my colleagues disagreed, and that they should have the right to express their views and offer their amendments on this controversial issue . . .
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I am all for the civility that Collins claims to want back in politics. However, she needs to start by being honest. Her colleagues' sole goal was to kill DADT repeal and the whining about offering amendments is purely a disingenuous smoke screen. Civility requires some measure of honesty and Collins fails the test herself.