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How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda(courtship)
time.com/ ^ | Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 | Karen Tumulty and Jay Newton-

Posted on 02/16/2009 10:23:44 AM PST by shielagolden

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To: Badeye

Obama’s concubines? More like the O-man’s Ho’s.

Regarding Snow having the Vice President’s phone number, I am sure that Benedict Arnold had no problem reaching British Major Andre prior to their little traitorus enterprise, too.


21 posted on 02/16/2009 11:01:12 AM PST by johnnycap
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To: shielagolden

And not one person or persons or group who actually caused this mess are even mentioned.

1. Government.

2. Congress, mainly.

3. Democrats, mostly. (Frank, Schumer plus others)


22 posted on 02/16/2009 11:04:36 AM PST by mulligan (A)
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To: shielagolden

“I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up,” says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when her party controlled the White House.

And I am sure not one of them was used.


23 posted on 02/16/2009 11:04:45 AM PST by PMAS
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To: txnativegop

Problem is, I don’t think real conservatives can win in Maine. I think the GOP is better off trying to pick up a couple seats in a state where there is a reasonable conservative base. I just don’t think Maine is the place.


24 posted on 02/16/2009 11:06:06 AM PST by karibdes (It's not a perfect world. Screws fall out.)
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To: shielagolden
I raised this before, I'll raise it again: Would it not be possible to flip a couple of Blue Dogs with the promise of coming into the GOP with some or all the perks of the Concubines' (or Spectral's) seniority and committee assignments? Of course, the Concs and Spectral would probably defect to the Democratic caucus. But what would that change? We didn't have those votes anyway.

I believe the states where the Blue Dogs come from would be unlikely to complain if their rep stopped voting with the Communists in the Senate.

Am I missing something here?

25 posted on 02/16/2009 11:06:06 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: shielagolden

“This is not the first time Collins and Snowe have broken ranks with their party. They have often found themselves at odds with the GOP leadership on taxes, budgets, the environment and social issues.”

What’s left? the naming of Post Offices?

Can we kick them out from the party for this treason? There has to be a limit.


26 posted on 02/16/2009 11:13:59 AM PST by WOSG (Oppose the bailouts, boondoggles, big Government)
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To: SamuraiScot

NO. There are no ‘blue dogs’ they are Pelosi’s poodles.

Don’t you get it? Democrats are the PARTY OF SOCIALISM NOW.
The idea that a single Democrat is worthy of anything other than election defeat is wrong.

They are all USELESS AND DANGEROUS to you.


27 posted on 02/16/2009 11:16:16 AM PST by WOSG (Oppose the bailouts, boondoggles, big Government)
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To: mulligan

+1


28 posted on 02/16/2009 11:26:28 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: WOSG

... paging Michael Steele


29 posted on 02/16/2009 11:27:56 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: karibdes

It’s another way of losing though if they vote like Democrats.

Frankly, they are beyond useless.


30 posted on 02/16/2009 11:28:06 AM PST by WOSG (Oppose the bailouts, boondoggles, big Government)
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To: WOSG

Agreed.


31 posted on 02/16/2009 11:46:35 AM PST by karibdes (It's not a perfect world. Screws fall out.)
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To: jamese777

MAINE SUCKS


32 posted on 02/16/2009 11:46:56 AM PST by mimaw
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33 posted on 02/16/2009 11:51:09 AM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: OnTheDress

The Ds throw out ‘McCarthy’ or ‘Nixon’ and assume that the reaction of the reader is “He was a bad guy” or “tsk, tsk, Nixon”.

Well, McCarthy was RIGHT. And Nixon was a problem - b/c he institutionalized Johnson’s coup.


34 posted on 02/16/2009 12:26:00 PM PST by sobieski
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To: shielagolden
"I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when her party controlled the White House.

Well HELLO. What does that tell you about your ideas? What a sickening dunce

35 posted on 02/16/2009 12:26:47 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget (July 4, 2009 see you there))
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To: jamese777

Is Snowe always drunk?


36 posted on 02/16/2009 12:27:25 PM PST by sobieski
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To: Badeye
Perhaps. But the fact is those three ensured we will never know...

Don't get me wrong. They are politicians of a very low order. No principal and no loyalty.

37 posted on 02/16/2009 12:30:11 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: shielagolden

According to the American Conservative Union’s rankings, Snowe voted the conservative position on major issues 49% of the time over her career and 28% of the time in 2007. Collins has voted conservative 52% of the time and 36% in 2007.
By way of contrast, Democratic Ben Nelson has voted conservative 52% of the time during his time in Congress and 32% conservative in 2007.


38 posted on 02/16/2009 1:31:31 PM PST by jamese777
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To: karibdes
I don’t think real conservatives can win in Maine.
I think the GOP is better off .....

But what do you KNOW? Have Mainer's ever been given a choice between the RINO and a Conserviative in the primary?

39 posted on 02/16/2009 2:16:46 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I *LOVE* my Attitude Problem - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: shielagolden
Just get rid of them.It will be a while before we will be near a majority.

Remember actions speak louder than words allways

40 posted on 02/16/2009 2:21:18 PM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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