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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Aggravating Susan Collins
The Hill reports that Susan Collins, who, along with her colleague Olympia Snowe, voted with the Democrats more than any other Republican senators, is aggravated with her Democratic colleagues who campaigned against her for reelection. And she's telling people that she still feels resentful that her Democratic senatorial colleagues came to Maine to criticize her as just a Bush clone.Collins told colleagues at a small Senate prayer breakfast meeting last week that she still felt lingering resentment toward Democratic senators who campaigned against her in Maine.Collins and Snowe always portray themselves as voting their beliefs rather than their party. It would be rather immature to change their votes just because they're angry about the way the campaign played out. Our representatives aren't supposed to vote their pique, though I suppose many do. It's rather like Newt Gingrich complaining about which exit he had to use on Air Force One.
She confessed that she had “trouble forgiving colleagues” who traveled to Maine and told voters she was “a Bush clone and called into question her ethics,” said a senator who attended the meeting.
Collins’s lingering resentment could emerge as a snag for Democratic leaders who expect her to side with them on many important votes.
Unless Democrats win a recount in Minnesota and a runoff in Georgia, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will need at least two Republicans to side with his conference on procedural votes next year to overcome GOP filibusters.
Collins’s spokesman, Kevin Kelley, said his boss does not hold a grudge.
“She has made clear that once the campaigns are over, politics needs to be set aside and Congress needs to get the job done,” Kelley said. “That’s something Sen. Collins has always done and something she’ll continue to.”
But other senators say that attacks on the campaign trail can have lasting repercussions in the clubby Senate, where one lawmaker’s objection can bring legislative progress to a halt.
Though it's rather notable that her Democratic colleagues would so strongly badmouth a mild and moderate senator like Collins, especially when it was never in doubt that she was cruising to victory. She won her reelection 61 to 39% with a bigger margin than even Barack Obama. So she has some room to vote her true beliefs, resentments aside. We'll see how that plays out.Labels: Senate
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The Hill reports that Susan Collins, who, along with her colleague Olympia Snowe, voted with the Democrats more than any other Republican senators, is aggravated with her Democratic colleagues who campaigned against her for reelection. And she's telling people that she still feels resentful that her Democratic senatorial colleagues came to Maine to criticize her as just a Bush clone.
Though it's rather notable that her Democratic colleagues would so strongly badmouth a mild and moderate senator like Collins, especially when it was never in doubt that she was cruising to victory. She won her reelection 61 to 39% with a bigger margin than even Barack Obama. So she has some room to vote her true beliefs, resentments aside. We'll see how that plays out.
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The Hill reports that Susan Collins, who, along with her colleague Olympia Snowe, voted with the Democrats more than any other Republican senators, is aggravated with her Democratic colleagues who campaigned against her for reelection. And she's telling people that she still feels resentful that her Democratic senatorial colleagues came to Maine to criticize her as just a Bush clone.
Collins told colleagues at a small Senate prayer breakfast meeting last week that she still felt lingering resentment toward Democratic senators who campaigned against her in Maine.Collins and Snowe always portray themselves as voting their beliefs rather than their party. It would be rather immature to change their votes just because they're angry about the way the campaign played out. Our representatives aren't supposed to vote their pique, though I suppose many do. It's rather like Newt Gingrich complaining about which exit he had to use on Air Force One.
She confessed that she had “trouble forgiving colleagues” who traveled to Maine and told voters she was “a Bush clone and called into question her ethics,” said a senator who attended the meeting.
Collins’s lingering resentment could emerge as a snag for Democratic leaders who expect her to side with them on many important votes.
Unless Democrats win a recount in Minnesota and a runoff in Georgia, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will need at least two Republicans to side with his conference on procedural votes next year to overcome GOP filibusters.
Collins’s spokesman, Kevin Kelley, said his boss does not hold a grudge.
“She has made clear that once the campaigns are over, politics needs to be set aside and Congress needs to get the job done,” Kelley said. “That’s something Sen. Collins has always done and something she’ll continue to.”
But other senators say that attacks on the campaign trail can have lasting repercussions in the clubby Senate, where one lawmaker’s objection can bring legislative progress to a halt.
Though it's rather notable that her Democratic colleagues would so strongly badmouth a mild and moderate senator like Collins, especially when it was never in doubt that she was cruising to victory. She won her reelection 61 to 39% with a bigger margin than even Barack Obama. So she has some room to vote her true beliefs, resentments aside. We'll see how that plays out.
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Sen. Collins discovered the same thing Sen. McCain discovered about "collegiality" in the U. S. Senate. It's a one-way street trod by naive idiots useful to the other side of the aisle. Sen. Collins has a 2007 ACU rating of 36%, but a 2007 ADA rating of 55%, yet the Democrats tried to paint her as a "Bush clone?" With "colleagues" like that, who needs enemies?
Oh, so there is a divide amongst the left-wing illuminati? Come on mainstream media, get on your job, you can't protect them always.
Bill Clinton discovered that after being given the title of the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, he wasn’t black enough when his wife ran against a real “black man” in the form of Barak Obama.
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