DISQUS

Joneses · 10 months ago

GOP motto, party first, country last.

brb915 · 10 months ago

..............go to wvgazette.com and go to the opinion page............add one more, Capito, to that list.............

timncguy · 10 months ago

There's only 50,000 people in Maine??? They don't need two senators. Get rid of Susam Collins..

Steve_in_CNJ · 10 months ago

50,000 unemployed. 1 million total adults.

paulbot5 · 10 months ago

Theres no reason to believe the stimulus package will help america

nicho · 10 months ago

I believe.

Marnie · 10 months ago

There's no reason to believe it won't either. Doing nothing definitely will.

When sitting on a fire ant (that's pronounced far aint) mound you have one best choice. MOVE somewhere else, and quickly.

Greensburg · 10 months ago

The GOP always stick together, they are real good at that. They are also very good on blaming all of this mess on the dems and will continue to be seen as the heros in all of this as the country collapses because they are real good also at controlling the message. The dems of this country never learn....how many teeth do you think the Pres has to loose before he realizes that he is always getting kicked in the teeth by the GOP. He doesn't appear to be a quick learner and his talk of bipartisanship is really getting me sick of him.

brb915 · 10 months ago

Gb, you must have missed his announcement today concerning Executive pay in Bailout Corporations. He reminded the redundant Repubs that due to his MANDATE in November and the overwhelming public cry for change, he was either going to get it done with them, or he was gonna get it done after stepping over their twitching, dead political careers. They are good at sticking together....I'll give you that......but the message I hear is that they are running out of time, ideas, support, and days 'til Nov. '10.

JS · 10 months ago

Please read the article on Political Carnival and give it a wide circulation, it is regarding ABC channel and other networks trying to destroy Obama's credibility.

AdrianBrowne · 10 months ago

All this extreme rhetoric on part of Republicans and their pundits is aimed at cowing the other Republicans.

Jabez · 10 months ago

According to Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com they've Snowe and Collins have voted with Obama 91 and 72 percent of the time, respectively. I'd say they've been very "moderate". As for the stimulus bill it does have a good bit of unneccesary pork in it. To say it doesn't is to be willfully blind.

nicho · 10 months ago

What is pork? Please.

timncguy · 10 months ago

Just what percentage of the bill is PORK according to you? According to Obama, the "pork" that the repugs have complained about tallies up to 1% of the total.

I'm not saying those provisions should be in there, they shouldn't. But, to act like it is a HUGE amount, is what I would call being willfully blind.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 10 months ago

actually, I'd call the repugnican corporate tax cuts 'pork'... that eventually WE pay for.

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nicho · 10 months ago

What is pork? Is it public projects that will put people to work? Isn't that what the bill is supposed to do. People love to fling around words like "pork" giving the impression the money will just be put in a pile and burned.

All "pork" really means is that the new ship will be built in Mississippi instead of Maine. But as long as shipworkers somewhere are working, it's OK with me,

Verchiel · 10 months ago

"Lockstep" is what the GOP does.

They accomplish, in the minority, what the Dems cannot with the numbers on their side. It's disgusting and there's simply no reason to believe that will change anytime, soon.

A crap-free bill would've allowed us to expose them as Obstructionists they are, but there's enough easily digested good "wasteful provision" soundbites that will be dutifully repeated until the Dems are--again--hammered into submission.

AdrianBrowne · 10 months ago

The Republicans have to be united because they'll use the vote, either way, against their opponents in primaries.

It's not about the bill passing or not passing.

That's why they're using such extreme rhetoric -- it fires up the freepers.

James K. Sayre · 10 months ago

It is impossible for the Democrats to be "bipartisan" with the rabid Republicans, who have marched in lockstep with the Bush gangster regime. In the Senate, Obama needs to just peel off a couple of Republican Senators and then he can get his Reinvestment in America bil passed.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 10 months ago

ya know... the repugs are shooting themselves in the foot right now.

they want to cut costs?? WTF?!

I mean, dragging this out when people are losing jobs faster each day... and the economy is awful... dragging it out proves how out of touch they are with what's happening.

they don't have to worry about their jobs right now... some of them don't have to worry until 2012...

so they're acting like, "its imperitive that we do something now... but first, let's haggle a bit."

again, WTF?!?!

you ask the average guy who just lost his job or will be losing his house in the next month or so whether or not he cares whether the bill is for $950 billion, $600 billion or $45 trillion dollars... chances are he'll say "I don't give a shit, I need a job... YESTERDAY!"

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Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 10 months ago

the one constant in this whole thing...

the republicans are showing their lack of compassion for the average person in America.

truely, they don't give a shit.

3rd rodeo · 10 months ago

Nobody gives a shit about average americans. That's your answer, butthead!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 10 months ago

Thanks for the clarification, asshole.

phillydem · 10 months ago

If you live in Pennsylvania, you should be putting the heat on Arlen Specter, too. Specter loves to revel in his reputation as a "moderate", but when the chips are down he toes the GOP line.

Let Specter know you'll be watching how he votes. He's running for reelection right now and you can tell him his vote on whether or not to help the unemployed right here in the Keystone State will determine how you vote in next November.

Older_Wiser · 10 months ago

Perhaps Rethugs should be schooled in which presidents created the most US debt in modern times, the top 5 being:

Bush II
Bush I
Reagan
Ford
Nixon

http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm

Chris From Maine · 10 months ago

The people of Maine deserve better, yet continue to support these horrible Senators.

Naja pallida · 10 months ago

All we can hope for is that they represent the people and State that they were elected to represent, not just represent the Republican party. If Reid would actually grow a spine force a vote and make these people truly make a choice, he might be surprised with the outcome.

newsbum · 10 months ago

Yeah, its like the Dems don't get it. I mean, how can we let the politicians keep the bailout away from us?

I saw this and it really riled me up:
http://tv1.com/playlists/225

3rd rodeo · 10 months ago

I got bailed out. Didn't ask for it; didn't expect it. Talk about unintended consequences!

Marnie · 10 months ago

As a non native of Maine who has just recently moved from Maine, I know that Maine is in a world of hurt financially. It was one of the poorest states, with some of the hightst un and under empolyment in the nation preBushies, now it is in even worse straights.
I suspect that many congress persons from poor and needy states and districts will have to decide to support their President sooner or later.

Hopefully it will be sooner. As later will only heighten the destruction that the Repocons have left as thier legacy.

No one knows at what moment "too late" might be. Too late for Maine or too late for the United States

MNPundit · 10 months ago

Perhaps you should tell your comments to the people of Maine who re-elect both women in landslides each time.

Milli · 10 months ago

I work at the University of Maine and things are a mess. Yesterday our chancellor said the entire system is on a "razor's edge" unless some drastic changes are made (and they will be made). Unions are now voting on whether to accept a pay cut to merely postpone job layoffs until June. And the thing that pisses me off the most is that the lowest-paid workers are willing to go with the cut if it mean everyone can keep their jobs, but the high-paid, useless administrators are balking at sacrificing any part of their $100,000+ salaries.

JohnRJ08 · 10 months ago

The GOP is playing a frightening game of chicken with the Obama White House in meddling with the stimulus package. Not that it was a perfect package, but the risk of this politicking is that it will unspool the momentum necessary to get anything done at all. Many Republicans are betting on the failure of the stimulus package and are now posturing for the day that they can say "I told you so" to a country that will, by then, be in a deep depression.

lamo · 10 months ago

I am from Maine and am proud of my senators I do not agree with the bill as it stands today money for hollywood producers etc give me a break. I do not mind stimulas for the economy but some of the items are not ecnomic stimulas in my mind and I am not a republican.

Nemesis · 1 month ago

All you have to do is look up the pacs that support these Bimbi. All Snowe and Collins have done is pander to the likes of Lieberman and Spincter. Thier main constituency has been themselves and they have both helped themselves gratuitously to the public trough Snowes worth about 9.5 Million of which over 1.5 million has been showered on her from the insurance companies locally and nationally. The other one belongs to General Dynamics and I.P. Maine needs to rid itself of these "Old Bags". Thier attempts to emulate Billy Cohen have been successful in the abscence of any real integraty. Margaret Chase Smith must be rolling in her grave at the antics of these two products of mediocrity.