'What an embarrassment': Critics pile on Susan Collins after her Capitol riot committee comments
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) came under withering attack on Twitter Sunday morning after she tried to undermine the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan 6th that sent her and her colleagues fleeing for their lives.
During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" with host Jake Tapper, Collins -- as she is known to do -- expressed concern with the make-up of the committee and skipped over the fact the Republican leadership has opposed it at every chance and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to put at least one possibly complicit Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) on it.
Speaking with Tapper, the Maine Republican stated, "I think it would have had far more credibility than Speaker Pelosi's partisan committee that she has set up but we should have had a 9/11 style commission to fully look at what happened."
According to one Collins critic, she is still an embarrassment to her state.
You can see some comments below:
So Susan Collins, like always, says a whole bunch of nothing.— A Hopeful Citizen (@A Hopeful Citizen) 1627824671
Not the first time Susan Collins has been wrong.— Paul (@Paul) 1627824362
There truly is no bottom with republicans. There no low too low.— Undisillusioned (@Undisillusioned) 1627824344
Just stop the shit already.— Sha Sha (@Sha Sha) 1627824305
Susan Collins has dropped her paper-thin mask entirely. She\u2019s in favor of putting insurrectionist treason co-conspirator Jim Jordan on the Jan. 6 commission.https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1421826901681872898\u00a0\u2026— Eric Garland (@Eric Garland) 1627825210
Susan Collins is very disappointed.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1421824054944833538\u00a0\u2026— Jo (@Jo) 1627825284
What planet is she living on? It isn't this one.— Mara McGuire stands with the Capitol Police (@Mara McGuire stands with the Capitol Police) 1627826067
They declined a bipartisan committee.\n\nNow they complain there should be a bipartisan committee.\n\nThe gaslighting never ends with the GOP.— Danno (@Danno) 1627825945
Who cares what Susan Collins thinks...wasn't she the one that thought Trump had learned his lesson after the first Impeachment...— Dufus Rigamaroll (@Dufus Rigamaroll) 1627826776
Can we stop asking her opinion on anything? She has been on the wrong side of history for each event. Move on.— Will (@Will) 1627827816
She\u2019s very disappointed that Gym the Jacketless Screamer wasn\u2019t on the committee!\n\nI mean, he\u2019s only a material witness in the case, but she\u2019s sure that Gym has learned his lesson\u2026 \n\nI just can\u2019t imagine Susan being disappointed.\n\nJust shocking.https://youtu.be/QryuTpPh5Yk— Jo (@Jo) 1627824615
What an embarrassment.\n\nPeople of Maine, you should be mortified by your representative.— Gary Haase (@Gary Haase) 1627825956
How the hell did Susan Collins get re-elected??— Erie Siobhan is Vaxxed to the Max \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Erie Siobhan is Vaxxed to the Max \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1627827736
