Posted on 02/12/2009 4:47:38 AM PST by rabscuttle385
The courtship of Senator Olympia Snowe started in December with a phone call from Joe Biden. The Vice President-elect made sure Snowe had his home telephone number in Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic stimulus package should work. "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. "Now somebody was listening."
Snowe isn't the only GOP Senator — or even the only one from Maine — who is getting room service from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After working around the clock for a week with 20 of her Senate colleagues on a compromise stimulus measure, Susan Collins had all but given up. But early on the evening of Feb. 6, Senate majority leader Harry Reid invited her to his office. "I debated whether it was worth going," Collins recalls. "I figured they were just going to put pressure on us to accept their previous offer," which didn't shrink the spending in the package as much as she had demanded. When she got there, however, she was surprised to discover White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who had come to make a deal. "It was as if all of a sudden they had decided to get serious with the negotiations," she says. "They agreed on the bottom line of our proposal, which was $780 billion."
In the weeks and months to come, Snowe and Collins can expect to be lavished with even more attention from the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Got to be the fact that Maine is frozen nine months out of the year....
[ I kid....kinda....]
Stupid women in need of their emotional fix. Pathetic!
I suggest that we send these 2 RINOS a set of Monica knee pads.
“I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up,” says Snowe
The nerve of these people! They think the taxes that we pay belongs to them to use as they see fit.
My children are going to be servents to this debt.
"I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe ...
Her having an infinite number of ideas stored up partially explains why she tends to be incoherent.
Maybe Obama could sell California to the Chinese and raise another 32 billion dollars?
Did you hear them speak. Got to have a combined IQ of 100.
You’re being generous
Obama didn’t need two (D)’s to get a filibuster proof majority...he already has these two “C”’s.
(Sorry.)
You must have heard them too.
They should be kicked out of the party for substandard intelligence.
Maine is out as a vacation destination. The lobsters are said to be diseased with Abelaria and will make you very sick, even when well cooked.
This message should be delivered widely and known and understood by every American
Ah yes, the birth of the “No Child, or Grandchild, Left With a Dime” act.
Lets see if the RNC is serious about getting back control of the Congress and takes action against these three Senate traitors.
So, essentially, she’s a democrat...
Newsmax.com
Specter, Snowe, Collins Are Benedict Arnolds
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:49 PM
By: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Because of the concentrated efforts of millions of Republicans all over America, Susan Collins (Maine) was reelected to the Senate, surviving a challenge once thought to be serious. She won, in large part, because she was able to drown her Democratic adversary in a sea of campaign spending made possible by donations from Republicans throughout the nation. As a result of their efforts, the GOP preserved its 40th vote in the Senate. Excerpt
“It was as if all of a sudden they had decided to get serious with the negotiations,” she says. “They agreed on the bottom line of our proposal, which was $780 billion.”
Great. This idiot thniks 780 Billion of wasted tax dollars is a better plan the 900 Billion wsted tax dollars. I’ll bet she actually thinks she won something here.
(The lobsters are said to be diseased with Abelaria ..)
Don’t spread bullshit on fr. I live here. My next brother-in-law is a lobsterman. These guys get paid crap for risking their lives out there, and here you are spreading fertilizer.
If only someone in her own party had been as engaged as Biden. Perhaps she had a sense of what we thought of her.
>> Don’t spread bullshit on fr.
Ayuh!
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