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Senate Jobs Bill Clears Key Hurdle (Maine Witches Alert)
Chron ^ | 08/04/10 | A Taylor

Posted on 08/04/2010 8:21:31 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

President Barack Obama and his allies in the Senate have won a key vote to advance a bill to help states and local school boards with their severe budget problems...Moderate Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins cast the key votes to break the GOP filibuster.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: maine; olympiasnowe; rinos; school; spending; susancollins; taxes
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Really, are these two worth the trouble????
1 posted on 08/04/2010 8:21:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

This bill raises taxes on businesses operating overseas.

Nice job, Maine.


2 posted on 08/04/2010 8:23:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Moderate” - code name for RINOs and commie-enablers


3 posted on 08/04/2010 8:24:07 AM PDT by Paratesties
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To: SoFloFreeper
Teachers' unions all over the country thank you.

You two are utterly worthless, even by senate standards.

4 posted on 08/04/2010 8:24:10 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SoFloFreeper
"President Barack Obama and his allies in the Senate have won a key vote to advance a bill to help UNIONS states and local school boards with their severe budget..."
5 posted on 08/04/2010 8:31:46 AM PDT by avacado
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To: skeeter

Keep local governments big and bloated that’ll help jump start the economy!


6 posted on 08/04/2010 8:44:55 AM PDT by Mr. Right Now
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To: SoFloFreeper

"Isn't it exciting! I just got a call...from Chrissy Matthews!"
"O.M.G.!"


7 posted on 08/04/2010 8:46:47 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I look forward to the day where a Tea Party-ized GOP not only refuses to tolerate this, but is willing to hold a high-profile televised ceremony officially drumming them out of the party.


8 posted on 08/04/2010 8:50:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: COBOL2Java

When do these RINOs terms expire?


9 posted on 08/04/2010 8:50:35 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (He promised hope; he gave us hype. He promised change; he gave us chains!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"Really, are these two worth the trouble???? "

You can't answer that question without knowing what the balance of power count is in the Senate. If they are the 61st and 62nd Republican vote, respectively, then no, they aren't worth the trouble.

But, when you're already spotting the opposition 10-seats to parity, then YES, they're worth the trouble.

10 posted on 08/04/2010 8:53:30 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: SoFloFreeper

Please Lord, allow us to vote in some more Republican U.S. senators in November 2010 and 2012 so we are not at the mercy of the ladies from Main.


11 posted on 08/04/2010 9:04:59 AM PDT by RicocheT
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To: SoFloFreeper

the Senate have won a key vote to advance a bill to help states and local school boards with their severe budget problems

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The Senate is 1/3 of what is ruining States and Local economies, as they taker more money from the private sector, states and local school boards continue to have severe budget problems.


12 posted on 08/04/2010 9:10:58 AM PDT by Son House (No Scammers or Spammers CASH ONLY SALE! No coupons, IOU's, Foodstamps, Checks, etc THIS IS CASH ONLY)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Worthless whores.


13 posted on 08/04/2010 9:16:14 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Moderate Republicans? There are DEMOCRATS who are more conservative than those to. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again—these two are nothing more than Obama’s Comfort Girls.


14 posted on 08/04/2010 9:16:26 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

(Maine Witches Alert)

you misspelled the middle word....there is suppose to be a ‘B’ in there somewhere, I believe???


15 posted on 08/04/2010 9:24:30 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Paratesties

These two hens are worse than Rino’s, they’re just moonbats who happen to have an “R” next to their name.


16 posted on 08/04/2010 9:41:55 AM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: SoFloFreeper

From the Hill website:

“...For liberals, the offsets came at a price: Almost $12 billion of the $26.1 billion tab is covered by cutting food stamp benefits to low-income Americans beginning in 2014.”

So it looks like the poor will be taking another one on the chin to pay for the Libs greedy union interests. Funny how things like this rarely get mentioned...


17 posted on 08/04/2010 9:43:07 AM PDT by Qbert
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To: SoFloFreeper
Really, are these two worth the trouble????

The only time these two seem to count is when adding up the numbers for majority control of the chamber - they seem to always vote with the RAT pack, with very few exceptions like Obamacare. Remember when the count was close (little tommy daschle days) and the pubbies said "well let's share leadership roles"? Can you ever imagine the RATS agreeing to such nonsense - the GOP is it's worse enemy.
18 posted on 08/04/2010 9:53:51 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: eCSMaster

Snowe is up in 2012, Collins in 2014.

They will both be re-elected, since the democrats always run ultra-left moonbats against them....Ted Kennedy and Cindy Sheehan types. Snowe and Collins end up looking good to the voters of Maine when compared to their democrat moonbat opponents.

The solution: elect a number or true conservatives from the South and West. If the GOP has sufficient numbers in the Senate, the votes of Snowe and Collins won’t matter any longer.....they’ll be neutered and rendered irrevelant.


19 posted on 08/04/2010 10:40:25 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The rallying cry of American patriots.....REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
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To: skeeter

“Teachers’ unions all over the country thank you.”

This is a 100% union payback. And the worst part is the dims push it through without losing any political capital. The one thing the minority Republicans could do is prove it is totally political and embarrass them. Just have a Republican on the senate floor read off a list of gym teachers & drivers ed teachers making $100,000 a year. These districts can afford that but are broke? Come on. That would REALLY resonate with a lot of people in this economy.


20 posted on 08/04/2010 10:52:08 AM PDT by lodi90
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