And Then There Were Two? (Collins wavering, Snowe & Specter still in) [Keep the pressure on!!]

Red State ^ | February 6th at 3:38PM EST | by Jeff Emanuel

[MaestroLC]

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) just said in a radio interview that only two “Republican” Senators are still actively attempting to provide the Democrats “bipartisan” cover for their nearly $1,000,000,000,000.00 borrow-and-spend bill.

Based on what I’ve been hearing from around the Hill, and Roll Call’s report that Sen. Collins (R-ME) was having misgivings about betraying her party and constituents, those two are (definitely) Arlen Specter (PA) and (most likely) Olympia Snowe (ME).

In the radio interview, Burr said nobody knows if the vote, initially planned for 7pm, will actually happen tonight (translation: despite his typically hotheaded rhetoric, Harry Reid lacks the votes to give himself “bipartisan” cover and therefore to make this bill’s passage politically worthwhile), and that ” out of every 10 calls coming in about the [so-called] stimulus, 9.9 of them are against the bill.”

Keep calling Senators Specter, Snowe, and Collins at 202-224-3121. Tell them that if this trillion dollar borrow-and-spend-on-pork plan is going to pass, it needs to do so as a Democrat-only measure.

The Democrats campaigned on a platform of unadulterated liberalism, which they pledged to implement if they gained enough seats in both houses to do so. They have the votes to pass this and other policies that are doomed to fail once implemented; the Republicans’ job is simply to propose principled alternatives, and to make Democrats own their own proposals on a party-line basis.

Call Senators Specter, Snowe, and Collins at 202-224-3121. Tell them not to help the Democrats drag this country’s economy into the gutter.

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To: MaestroLC

Call call call.

Get instate calls posted.

http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.DistrictOffices#Portland
Snowe
Auburn State Office:
Two Great Falls Plaza
Suite 7B
Auburn, ME 04210
Main: (207) 786-2451
Fax: (207) 782-1438

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Augusta State Office:
Edmund S. Muskie Federal Building
40 Western Avenue
Room 408C
Augusta, ME 04330
Main: (207) 622-8292
Fax: (207) 622-7295

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Bangor State Office:
One Cumberland Place
Suite 306
Bangor, ME 04401
Main: (207) 945-0432
Fax: (207) 941-9525

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Biddeford State Office:
227 Main Street
Biddeford, ME 04005
Main: (207) 282-4144
Fax: (207) 284-2358

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Portland State Office:
3 Canal Plaza
Suite 601
Portland, ME 04101
Main: (207) 874-0883
Fax: (207) 874-7631

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Presque Isle State Office:
169 Academy Street
Suite 3
Presque Isle, ME 04769
Main: (207) 764-5124
Fax: (207) 764-6420

Collins
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.USMail&CFID=5303344&CFTOKEN=96642836
DC Office:
413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main: (202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693

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Caribou State Office:
25 Sweden Street, Suite A
Caribou, ME 04736
Main: (207) 493-7873

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Bangor State Office:
P.O. Box 655
202 Harlow Street, Room 204
Bangor, ME 04402
Main: (207) 945-0417

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Augusta State Office:
68 Sewall Street, Room 507
Augusta, ME 04330
Main: (207) 622-8414

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Lewiston State Office:
11 Lisbon Street
Lewiston, ME 04240
Main: (207) 784-6969

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Biddeford State Office:
160 Main Street
Biddeford, ME 04005
Main: (207) 283-1101

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Portland State Office:
One City Center, Stop 23
Portland, ME 04101
Main: (207) 780-3575

7 posted on 02/06/2009 1:35:08 PM PST by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)

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To: Frantzie

Voinovich

http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.OfficeLocations

Washington, DC Office:
524 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main: (202) 224-3353

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Cleveland, OH Office:
1240 East 9th Street
Room 3061
Cleveland, OH 44199
Main: (216) 522-7095
Fax: (216) 522-7097

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Southeast, OH Office:
78 West Washington Street
P.O. Box 57
Nelsonville, OH 45764
Main: (740) 441-6410
Fax: (740) 753-3551

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Cincinnati, OH Office:
36 East 7th Street
Room 2615
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Main: (513) 684-3265
Fax: (513) 684-3269

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Northeast, OH Office:
1240 East 9th Street
Room 3061
Cleveland, OH 44199
Main: (216) 522-7095
Fax: (216) 522-7097

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Toledo, OH Office:
420 Madison Avenue
Room 1210
Toledo, OH 43604
Main: (419) 259-3895
Fax: (419) 259-3899

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Dayton, OH Office:
(Based out of Cincinnati)
36 East 7th Street, Room 2615
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Main: (513) 684-3265
Fax: (513) 684-3269

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Central, OH Office:
37 West Broad Street
Room 310
Columbus, OH 43215
Main: (614) 469-6697
Fax: (614) 469-7733

9 posted on 02/06/2009 1:37:03 PM PST by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)

[Badeye]

Voinovich said he wouldn’t block John Bolton from becoming UN Ambassador. John Voinovich said he would never vote for a tax increase, or against a tax cut. John Voinovich said he would only vote for strict constructionists on the Supreme Court.

And today I can tell you he did each of these things during his time in office, some very publicly, like Bolton and tax cuts, some less memorable like voting for Gingsberg to USSC.

Put him on the list, if only because Georgie would like the idea of being THE ONE.

[jennyjenny]

I keep trying to call but am getting busy signals. I’m hoping that’s a good thing. I did send another email to all of them.

[KarlInOhio]

Is Franken seated?

No. Right now it is 56 Democrats - 2 Indenpendent (voting with the Dems) - 41 Republicans and 1 empty seat. The Dems need 60 votes to break a filibusters, so if Kennedy doesn't vote they need 3 Republicans to break.

[mmichaels1970]

I just read that Voinovich is NOT going to cave.

I think I read the same thing. The article is currently just below this one in the "breaking" bar.

[eeevil conservative]

WOOOOOOOOOOT!!

[Badeye]

As of this day, Minnesota has ONE Senator, till the litigation between Coleman and Franken is completed. The MN Supremes have not ruled on Franken’s request to be seated ‘temporarily’.

[StAnDeliver]

What about also calling Bayh's (In.) new Blue Dog Senate Caucus: Bayh, Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Jim Webb (Va.), and Sen.-elect Mark Warner (Va.). One peel-away and the bill is toast.

[Badeye]

Yep.

And I”m telling you it isn’t a sure thing with Crying George Voinovich.

Ya’ll gotta trust this life long Ohio boy on this one, folks. Keep calling crying Georgie’s office til this thing is over.

[SuziQ]

"the Republicans’ job is simply to propose principled alternatives, and to make Democrats own their own proposals on a party-line basis."

Yep, that about nails it!

[romanesq]

Got through on the 207 number for Snowe.
Asked the Senator’s position and was told “compromise” and said that many of us feel there is nothing to compromise and the bill needs to be scrapped and then a real stimulus bill worked out in the “normal legislative” process.

Girl was polite and said she pass it along. Who knows?

Still it has to be done.

[MaestroLC]

Update (Ed Morrissey, Hot Air): Duane Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show tells me that the Democrats have to get 60 votes by rule for cloture, not just 3/5ths of the quorum. Ted Kennedy is too ill to attend, which means Reid needs three Republican votes — and it looks like he might not get them.

[italianquaker]

It sounds like Ben Nelson is voting no.

[PEACE ENFORCER]

" Tell them not to help the Democrats drag this country’s economy into the gutter."

With all due respect I watched Obama Talk out of BOTH sides of his mouth and hear with my own two ears (no pun intended) on Fox last night say

"Since when has congress ever passed a bill with no pork in it?"

This is an insult to the people who are paying taxes, and paying for their own destruction. 5 BILLION FOR ACORN !!!!!!!

This farce / fleece is going to pass.... The enemy of the American People is The Tyrannical Federal Government

[mmichaels1970]

Ya’ll gotta trust this life long Ohio boy on this one, folks. Keep calling crying Georgie’s office til this thing is over.

As a life long Ohio boy myself, I do certainly agree with you on that.

Completely unrelated: Back when Sen. Voinovich was the mayor of Cleveland, my dad and I had seats right next to him at Municipal Stadium for the Browns games. Used to get his "Pruitts" mixed up.

[Badeye]

‘Used to get his “Pruitts” mixed up. ‘

did he burst into uncontrollable tears?

(chuckle)

[OKSooner]

Email doesn't help one little bit.

Call on the telephone, and be polite about it.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I emailed Sen. Collins before I took my nap. I just emailed Sen. Snowe and Sen. Specter AND Sen. McCain.

What I’m telling them is that when the Bill fails, which it will, it will be a Republican who is Scapegoated. And once Scapegoated, it will be difficult to be a leader in the Republican Party.

They need to vote NO or at least Present, if they can’t vote NO.

I sent them the website http://www.stimuluswatch.org/home which REALLY shows how FEW jobs and how MUCH money is in the Stimulus Bill.

I do think Traditionally Conservative Republicans are winning here. There’s no reason to hurry up a vote. Not when this Bill needs to be studied, line by line.

[MaestroLC]

Stimulus Status [Mark Hemingway, NRO, The Corner, 4:50 PM]

Update from another Senate GOP source:

as you reported, voinivich is out. its now specter, snowe, collins and about a dozen democrats. Feinstein coming out attacking the bill seems to have rattled the Dems and its not clear now whats going to happen, but finishing tonight looks impossible...?

[rwfromkansas]

On events as controversial as this, it is not unheard of for a few Dems to vote against the party line, though typically not as much as the GOP has.

Typically Dems will lose two and the GOP loses 4 or 5.

I have to say though, I think being a bigger minority may really put the pressure on enough GOPs that we could lose just 2 this time. That would be enough for victory sans Kennedy.

[milwguy]

Call Ben Nelson’s office too. Being from Nebraska, he has to be feeling some serious heat from his citizens as well. Ditto the North Dakota and Montana dems.