Susan Collins apparently will be a YES vote!

[Zoonart]

Here we go folks... another "HERO" of the resistance caves. This is why we should never lavish praise on these people for "doing the right thing", because they are still Republicans and we can always count on them to do the WRONG thing when push comes to shove.

Susan] Collins, a key moderate holdout on the tax bill, said she received a personal assurance from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday that the cuts would be waived — one day after she threatened to oppose the bill over the severe reductions. She said House Speaker Paul Ryan had made the same promise.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/1/1720109/-Republican-tax-plan-still-on-track-to-trigger-150-billion-in-cuts-like-25-billion-from-Medicare#view-story

[Madam Mossfern]

1. Because of a *promise?*

Honestly?
Are these people as naive as a child.
Sometime I wonder.

Did she get it in writing?
Is there a date?

Holy cow - this is incredible.

[hatrack]

2. Of COURSE she did . . .

I sure hope no one was expecting something other than this foreordained outcome.`