WHAT IS MICHAEL STEELE GOING TO DO ABOUT SNOWE, COLLINS AND SPECTRE? (vanity)

vanity | 2/09/09 | Mamzelle

[Mamzelle]

I know he probably can't stop the two hens and the old coot from giving cover to the Porkulus.

[Mad Dawg]

I don't know what Steele can do, but the rest of the Senate Republicans could refuse to caucus with them and the Senate Republican Committee fundraisers could see that they get none of our dollars.

And that latter means that when the SRC calls you up a-begging, you say, "Not while Snowe, Collins, and Spectre has the elast chance of receiving a penny of my money."

[hoosiermama]

Be out there saying that these were BOUGHT Republicans.

May not be bought but threatened...I looked into the DFAS today....Notice they tried to eliminate the Maine program in the past. Have recently started a pilot program for transportation. And have awarded Evan Bayh for not turning against the party with these projects...It’s play to get pay the government way.

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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.

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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.

[Vendome]

Let's help. I am worn out from this. Let's re-energize on Wednesday and start lobbying Michael.

[Vendome]

You’re not Santa! Sniff, Sniff.

You stink! /s

[mnehring]

Good idea, different tactic.. we’ve been going after the RINOs, how about going after the party to push out RINOs.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Agreed 100%.

If Steele is going to signal a new game is in town, he needs to can these kneepadists. If he did that, he’d have conservative’s attention front and center. Make a few new changes that buck the old order and he’d have conservatives back on board spoiling for a fight in 2010. In fact, if he publically began grooming a new stable of solid conservative (hint, hint) and ash canning the old turds from selected positions, he’d unleash a flood of renewed support. Add a Palin ticket in 2012 and we’d burn this country down to put her there.

Keep up the same ol’ same ol’ and the pubbies will go nowhere. Leadership - genuine leadership - is all but missing in this nation.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I suspect is what Steele means by a "big tent." If you spend any time camping in a tent with others, you learn how to live with the smell of each others farts. Good tent mates don't comment.

What do you do when your tentmates begin sh*tting in the tent, too?

[lonestar]

Did you notice he specifically mentioned MAINE in his opening rearks!?

[billorites]

"What do you do when your tentmates begin sh*tting in the tent, too? "

Well, I suppose they're off my Christmas card list at that point.

I dunno. I think I move out and sleep in the woods. I'll have to think more about it.

I suppose what I would do depends to a great extent on what I might need or hope for from my poopy colleagues in order to help get me out of my tight spot.

[GreenLanternCorps]

There is nothing Michael Steele can do. US political parties have a very weak whip. In a Westminster style Parliament, they could have their whip pulled and be effectively driven from the party.

However, in the US system, people largely self select their party. All the Party Chairmen do is run the party apparatus, they don't set policy. About the worst that could be done is for The Republican Senatorial campaign committee to either be neutral in a primary fight or support a challenger ina primary.

Frankly with the Senate so tight, I doubt that Mitch McConnell would do anything to punish them. After all, he might need them in the future for another vote on another issue.

I can't think of anytime in US history where a legislator was "thrown out" of a party because of a vote he cast. The last situation I can think of (excepting Joe Liberman's unusual circumstances) was James Traficant over corruption charges.

[Secret Agent Man]

I sent him and a couple other RNC people that very message. They should be out. Because of what they did for the democrats and what they did against the rest of the republicans who voted no.

[ex91B10]

I disagree strongly MB.

[kalee]

I agree. I have the worst feeling that the Republicans are really for this bill and are using the 3 for cover. I have absolutely NO trust in them, any of them.