Impeachment lands Sen. Collins in familiar spot: crosshairs

By ALAN FRAM
an hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing perhaps her toughest reelection fight, veteran Sen. Susan Collins has parachuted into familiar terrain — the heart of a hot-button issue, this time President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

With Senate trial proceedings starting Tuesday, the moderate Maine Republican says she’ll probably support a motion to call witnesses, aligning herself with Democrats. But she says she’ll do that only after each side has argued its case and she says she’s not decided whether she’ll back seeking “any particular witness.”

It’s carefully parsed stances like that — and her track record of seeking bipartisan deals that sometimes fly and sometimes flounder on major issues such as immigration — that have won her respect and scorn.

Collins, 67, has embraced that approach for nearly 24 years in the Senate, even as compromise has grown increasingly scarce and politically perilous in the age of the retaliation-prone Trump. She did it again last week, saying she and three fellow Republicans had won a commitment from GOP leaders for a vote on whether to call witnesses.

https://apnews.com/353154c8b3e189a9e83b615bf59db1fa

No matter how this article tries to make her into a moderate........................she is not a moderate....................she has no principles.....................and yes I am bias..............and proud of it.....................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................