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.
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Is there no possibility of primary challenges to either of them?
Is there a thriving Teat Party movement in Maine?
OOPS! I meant Tea Party!
Libtard Dems disguised as (R)’s.................. =.=
Can we just give Maine to Canada and be rid of them?
Yah know... I have visited every state in the nation, at some point in my life, except Maine. I've never found any compelling reason to visit. If we give away Maine, I could actually say I've visited every state in the nation, solving that dilema.
They both have faces that would make a train take a dirt road.
Now that’s an amusing typo....Teat Party! LOL!
If there was a thriving Teat Party in Maine, I would attend every meeting.
All kidding aside, yes, there have been a number of TEA party rallies and meetings here in Maine. In fact, last June, we had the Republican and Democrat primaries for governor. The commercials on TV and Radio were enough to make you dizzy, because the GOP had seven candidates ruuning in the primaries and the democrats had four.
The TEA Party choice, Waterville, Maine mayor Paul LePage, won the GOP nomination. LePage did much better than expected. I hope he wins this Fall.
There are two independents, both liberals, running for governor in the Fall, so their presence in the race should siphon votes away from Libby Mitchell, the democrat’s candidate.
Also, Glenn Beck’s 9/12 movement meets in a local schoolhouse not far from where I live.
Primary challenges against Snowe and/or Collins are unlikely. Both of these stimulus sisters have the support of the Maine Republican party, and they both receive votes from democrats and independents in the general election.
Snowe won re-election in 2006 with 71% of the vote (she ran against an unknown democrat, a Cindy Sheehan type).
Collins won re-election in 2008 with 68% of the vote, running against former 1st district congressman Tom Allen, an ultra-lib.
There are Maine conservatives, but unfortunately none of them have the statewide name recognition or the money to successfully challenge either Snowe or Collins. The best way to rein in Snowe and Collins would be to dilute their influence by electing conservatives from the South and West, and hopefully several from the Mid West.
We’re not all moonbats here in Maine.....there are alot of conservatives.
I have no desire to be part of Canada. I love the Second Amendment, and I hate curling. The stars and stripes is my flag, not the Canadian maple leaf. No offense intended towards Canadian freepers.
Maine has, per capita, one of the highest percentages of National Guard troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whenever a soldier from Maine gets killed in combat, the local television and newspaper media reports the story in depth, and with respect. Our democrat governor orders all flags lowered to honor the fallen soldier. Either Snowe or Collins, sometimes both, attend the funeral. There are large numbers of veterans in the state, too.
Maine broke away from Massachusetts in 1820...thank God....and unlike Massachusetts, the Second Amendment is alive and well here in Maine. Firearms of all kinds are popular here.
If you ever do visit Maine, I suggest the coastal areas in the summer. Avoid visiting in January, February or March at all costs.
More of your freedom and money going down the toilet.
How do you like that “Hope and Change”?
Boycott Maine
Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins cast the key votes to break the GOP filibuster.
I have a craving for seafood.
GOOD Folks in Maine.
Wicked Bad Representation!
The Step Sisters of Serious Stupidity
will rest in a very hot place
and there will be a TON of Massholes hanging out with them.
Stimulus Package Supports
Kagan Supporters
New Spectors
Debt Creators
Boycott California, New York, Illinois, Vermont and Massachusetts.
(New York) State put freeze on hiring, then added 51,464 people
But state officials hired 51,464 people at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion in salaries, plus fringe benefits, since that decree on July 30, 2008.
The hires include sons of elected officials, a close friend of the governor’s and a slew of highly paid political appointees.
I'd like folks in Maine to check out the above link.
I live in NYS, and if the rest of the nation enables the fiscal malfeasance my state's perpetrating, they need their heads examined.
I seriously doubt Maine will ever get it’s act together and toss these two onto the street...
What a pathetic shame...
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