Republican Defectors Facing Backlash For Stimulus Support [Defeat Porkulus!!}

The three Republican senators supporting President Barack Obama’s $827 billion stimulus bill are drawing the wrath of many conservatives who say the massive spending in the plan could tip the country into depression.

Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter were lambasted on conservative Web sites throughout the weekend, and were the subjects of angry calls by many of their constituents, according to reports.

“Arlen Specter is DONE,” wrote a blogger named steelfish on the FreeRepublic Web site. “He won his last primary by less than 1 percent against a real conservative of Pat Toomey. And only because the President Bush came to PA and campaigned for him.He is DONE.”

“They are frauds. RINOS (Republicans in Name Only),’’ wrote a blogger named Croupier101 on the Fox News blog site.

On TV news shows Sunday, their Republican colleagues distanced themselves and downplayed their significance as Republicans in helping the president pass his package.

"This agreement is not bipartisan," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told CBS' "Face the Nation."

"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," McCain said.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the trio’s support must have been disappointing to Obama, who has staked much on his ostensible ability to transcend the partisan divide.

"Having three Republicans, potentially, support it in the Senate out of 535 members of Congress is hardly a bipartisan effort. I think it's a disappointment -- surely must be for President Obama," Cornyn told "FOX News Sunday."

Information regarding DFAS Bayh/Indiana:

Capitol Hill Press Releases
12-15-2005
For Immediate Release Bayh Announces 800 Jobs Coming to Indy DFAS Center
Contact: Dan Pfeiffer (202) 224-6807 / (202) 224-4598 December 15, 2005
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Evan Bayh today announced that the Defense
Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) has decided to send 800 jobs to the
Indianapolis DFAS Center as part of the on- going Base Re-Alignment and
Closure (BRAC) process, the most jobs any center will receive nationwide
through this process.

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Corporate Communications has embarked on a treasure hunt of sorts – rummaging through warehouses, attics, and other imaginable and unimaginable places in search of artifacts to be put on display in a new Defense Finance and Accounting Service museum that will be created in Indianapolis Maj. Gen. Emmett J. Bean Federal Center.

With the closing and consolidation of numerous DFAS sites under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act, former DFAS Director Zack Gaddy asked Corporate Communications to develop a plan for a museum. The intent is to preserve the history of DFAS before it is lost.

The new museum will house memorabilia, photographs and documents from Army, Navy and Air Force finance commands whose functions have since been assumed by various DFAS sites, as well as the agency that was created in 1991. It is tentatively planned to open in late spring 2009.

Jobs are already sparce in Maine. Several articles on Collins struggle to keep DFAS open (2005) THreatened closure...still in question in some arenas.

DFAS/Maine
Limestone, Maine. Total Population: 2374. Median Income: $35313

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http://www.dfaslimestone.org/

Maine Career Center - Presque Isle
NorthernMaineJobs.com
USAJOBS- Current Employment Opportunities at DFAS
USAJOBS is the Federal Government’s official one-stop source for Federal jobs and employment information.
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November17, 2008TO:DFAS CommutersFROM:GO MAINERE:Express commuter bus service from Presque Isle to DFAS – LimestoneGO MAINE is pleased to announce the start of new express commuter bus service fromPresque Isle to DFAS– Limestone.The Aroostook Express is a cooperative project between GO MAINE, Maine DOT andAroostook Regional Transportation, and supported by our partners DFAS, Loring CommerceCentre and Northern Maine Development Commission.

The Aroostook Express is a pilot project serving only DFAS commuters at this time.

Weexpect to expand service to other LCC commuters in the near future.Service will begin on Monday, December 1, 2008.

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