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Snowe to McCain: Bipartisan this! [RINO fight]
Politico ^ | 2009-02-09 | Daniel Libit

Posted on 02/09/2009 3:38:48 PM PST by rabscuttle385

Not bipartisan? Try telling that to Sen. Olympia Snowe.

On CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Sen. John McCain scoffed at the notion that the support President Barack Obama’s stimulus proposal has received from Snowe, Sen. Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, constituted bipartisanship.

“[T]his agreement is not bipartisan,” McCain told moderator Bob Schieffer. “I've been in bipartisan agreements, many. This is three Republican senators. Every Republican congressman voted against it in the House, plus Democrats. And all but three Republicans stayed together on this. That's not bipartisanship. That's just picking off a couple of senators.”

On Monday, Snowe took issue with that view.

In a statement to Politico, she said the package “represents a compromise that was established through true consensus building. As a member of the Senate Finance Committee, I worked with leadership and the Obama Administration to include key job-igniting provisions in the package, such as small business expensing and a boost in the New Markets Tax Credit.

“I can attest that this was certainly a give-and-take process. Our country is facing the worst economic conditions since World War II and we must not squander this opportunity to develop and enact a stimulus plan that will create jobs and help the displaced.”

By focusing on the work that led to the stimulus deal, Snowe seemed to adopt the process-oriented definition of “bipartisanship” William Safire provides in the latest version of his political dictionary.

“Bipartisanship,” Safire says, is when “politicians set aside differences to work together on political matters.”

But can a bill be called “bipartisan” – regardless of the process by which it came about – if only three members of the opposing party support it?

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 111th; bailout; betrayal; bho2009; bho44; bhostimulus; bipartisan; democrats; economy; goodbyeamerica; justice; mcbama; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; owned; pork; porkulus; pwned; rino; rinofight; senate; snowe; socialism; socialistagenda; stimuluswatch; traitors; ussenate; waronpork
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To: roses of sharon

WOW! ZERO doesn’t even own his own home according to records out of Chicago. ZERO cannot help himself but to make classless comments. They are going to come back to bite big. Dr. Coburn took Obama under his wing when he got to the Senate, but in his speech Saturday you could tell he was disgusted with ZERO and the way he treated the GOP ideas.

Pissing off McCain and Coburn are not smart moves. ZERO is probably the biggest arrogant jerk to occupy the WH which says a lot in such a short time.


41 posted on 02/09/2009 3:59:34 PM PST by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER! Sam Bradford Heisman! LetsGetThisRight.com RED STATE Oklahoma Republican)
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To: rabscuttle385

**Sen. John McCain scoffed at the notion that the support President Barack Obama’s stimulus proposal has received from Snowe, Sen. Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, constituted bipartisanship.**

Way to go, Senator McCain.


42 posted on 02/09/2009 4:00:17 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: karibdes
Agreed. He’s like the guy that acts like he’s going to fight because he knows his buddies will hold him back and not let any real fight happen.

Kinda reminds me of this episode of Southpark:

McCain just had his political ass kicked by a fellow RINO. Yep, there's some conservative toughness right there. /s/

43 posted on 02/09/2009 4:00:21 PM PST by TADSLOS (McCain always has a job as Obama's Butt Boy when he loses his seat in 2010)
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To: rabscuttle385
The Gang of 18, 15 Dems and 3 ‘Pubbies’, tried to make it look like the Gang of 14, 7 Dems and 7 Pubbies from the USSC voting. Not even close on this one. The 3 ‘Pubbies’ are interested is making nice with those who would plummet our country into a debt so massive that we will never recover. All in the name of going along to get along. What useless idiots. No consciences at all. Wonder how they sleep at night.
44 posted on 02/09/2009 4:00:25 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: rabscuttle385

We’ve all heard of The Three Sisters...Now, we have the Three Whores.


45 posted on 02/09/2009 4:01:10 PM PST by DGHoodini (Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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To: rabscuttle385
Tomorrow's headline today:

RINO Cat Fight!


46 posted on 02/09/2009 4:01:39 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Salvation

I agree. However a few around here are barking up the wrong tree.


47 posted on 02/09/2009 4:01:42 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Tarpon
It’s the only way to get them inline — Take away their committee assignments. Then make them sit in the back. Then no RNC money or support. Purify. There needs be a price.

The problems with Senators is that they are usually filthy rich even before entering office. If they come in with modest means they're usually filthy rich by the end of their first term.

You can't threaten Arlen Spector. What does he care, he's been in the Senate for how long plus he has questionable health.

Snowe and Collins have been around long enough to move to the French countryside if they get tossed out of office. What do they care?

48 posted on 02/09/2009 4:01:53 PM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: Tarpon

I am with you — throw them to the RATs — we don’t have the 60 anyway and at least the RATs own all the bills. The arrogance out of the three make me want to hurl.

At least Sen Cornyn is at RNC who has been part of the 20 fighting pork/earmarks for a long time and chances of Specter getting any money from the NRSC are slim to none. If I was Cornyn, I would ask for donations based on the fact that no money would go to any Senator voting for the stimulus. Bet he would bring in a lot of money. Know I would donate.


49 posted on 02/09/2009 4:02:20 PM PST by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER! Sam Bradford Heisman! LetsGetThisRight.com RED STATE Oklahoma Republican)
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To: Norman Bates; Salvation; TADSLOS
However a few around here are barking up the wrong tree.

I'll always bark up McCain's tree. McCain is a bad man.

50 posted on 02/09/2009 4:02:48 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385
Thanks Congressperson Snowe, if a year from now, we have fewer than 4 million new jobs, will you resign as evidence of your incompetence? If, in a year from now, the number of employed is actually lower than it is today, will you agree to reimburse the taxpayers for your folly (up to and including your last personal dollar)?
51 posted on 02/09/2009 4:02:53 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: rabscuttle385

so what do the dems have on these rhinos?

what are the rumors about these three?


52 posted on 02/09/2009 4:04:14 PM PST by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: rabscuttle385

As long as McCain wears the stench of a liberal, he’ll be hounded.


53 posted on 02/09/2009 4:04:54 PM PST by TADSLOS (McCain always has a job as Obama's Butt Boy when he loses his seat in 2010)
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To: PhiKapMom
As an aside, I heard recently that Zero resigned his Senate seat so early after the election because it made the Senate Ethics Committee investigation into him go away. They're not investigating because he's no longer a Senator. The ethics complaint was about his shady/illegal dealings with Rezko. Now he's President and his own people aren't going to be investigating him at all.
54 posted on 02/09/2009 4:05:05 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: DGHoodini

The Three Slit Nose, Always Ready to Sleep With The Enemy, Betraying Whores.


55 posted on 02/09/2009 4:05:11 PM PST by DGHoodini (Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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To: TADSLOS
As long as McCain wears the stench of a liberal, he’ll be hounded.

Well, seeing as he's one helluva skunk...

56 posted on 02/09/2009 4:05:44 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385
“I can attest that this was certainly a give-and-take process..."

From the standpoint of the taxpayer (Remember us, Olympia?) this is all take. We're all out of "give". Well, most of us anyway. There's a few (3 that I know of) that absolutely don't understand that people do NOT want this debacle.

57 posted on 02/09/2009 4:05:56 PM PST by meyer (The left is flooding the ship - let's quit bailing water. We are all John Galt.)
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To: rabscuttle385

The funny thing is these 3 think we are going to forget.


58 posted on 02/09/2009 4:06:05 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: rabscuttle385

It would be nice to trade Maine to Canada for British Coumbia or Alberta.


59 posted on 02/09/2009 4:07:48 PM PST by stop_fascism
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To: rabscuttle385

You waste a lot of energy. No matter what you think of McCain he is not wrong on opposing this bill - while the three RINO amigos are and you barely have a word for them.


60 posted on 02/09/2009 4:09:54 PM PST by Norman Bates
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