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 $780 billion."
In the weeks and months to come, Snowe and Collins can expect to be lavished with even more attention from the White House.
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Target one of the last few groups left in the state that works hard to make an honest living.
Jerk.
Fear produces change. Change is the objective
Then let's make it crystal clear. Boycott Maine. Don't go to Sunday River in the winter. If the sign says Maine lobster go elsewhere. Hunt for bear in New Hampshire. Stay away from Kittery. Is that better?
If you boycott Maine lobsters, all the welfare recipients and government parasites in the state will see the error of their ways and vote for conservatives.
Limited government is the only thing these parasites do fear.
“Maine girls are easy.” They gave it up for the Porkulus bill and didn’t even get invited to the conference committee. I wonder if they took the opportunity to get a tramp stamp in celebration.
The parasites are irrelevant.
Money talks. The moneyed job producers must apply the pressure. The collective lobster/fisheries/tourist industry is moneyed power. If their ox is gored, there might be change.
The parasites need to lose control.
The parasite population here has reached the tipping point.
The lobster and fishing industries are already being gored. Do you think these guys are voting for liberals.
The tourist industry is in the pocket of the enviroweenies.
Are you Fu$#%^g retarded? Or are you so GD slow that you do not get it? THERE IS NO DISEASE. YOU IDIOT.
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