Susan Collins Pops into Pennsylvania to Campaign with Dr. Oz

Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz will marketing campaign with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)—actually probably the most unpopular senator within the nation, in keeping with Morning Seek the advice of—in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, two days earlier than the election. Congratulations to these two strolling nightmares on discovering one another.

Collins, you’ll recall, has spent her whole profession claiming to assist abortion rights, after which delivered an important vote to substantiate Justice Brett Kavanaugh after claiming she took him at his phrase when he advised her he wouldn’t overturn Roe v. Wade. An ideal prank by him!

Collins mentioned after the Dobbs opinion leaked in Could that she was simply completely shocked that Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch had lied to her about their abortion positions, forcing her to assist them ship a crushing blow to these ladies’s rights she’d at all times mentioned she supported. “If this leaked draft opinion is the ultimate determination and this reporting is correct, it could be utterly inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh mentioned of their hearings and in our conferences in my workplace,” she mentioned. It’s so bizarre that the remainder of us knew precisely how Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would vote on Roe—because it was your entire purpose the Federalist Society had hand-picked them for Donald Trump to appoint—whereas an skilled, sitting senator simply had no thought. Completely no thought!

Anyway, these two are good for one another, as a result of Oz, too, claims to be “reasonable” whereas being a right-wing nut and is attempting to have it each methods on abortion. In 2019, he was defending abortion rights; now, as a senate candidate, he says abortion at any stage of being pregnant is “homicide” and that “native political leaders” ought to get a say in whether or not individuals can entry the process. John Fetterman, Oz’s Democratic opponent, raised $2 million in lower than 24 hours after that latter remark.

I don’t know if it’s a dumber transfer, politically, for Oz to tie himself to Collins two days earlier than an election or for Collins to tie herself in any respect to a snake-oil peddling quack TV physician. However this match made in hell might be talking collectively at an “occasion targeted on the economic system and bringing stability to Washington” at 1 pm EST.