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<p>Inside Politics - - Stephen Moore, president of the conservative Club for Growth, takes issue with U.S. News & World Report columnist Gloria Borger, who this week criticized Mr. Moore's group for what she called its "over the top" ad campaign that targets Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Republican, and several other senators who opposed President Bush's tax cut.</p>

The picture said it all: Susan Collins, Republican senator from Maine, at the state dinner last week. Not only at the dinner but placed in the best seat in the house--right next to George W. Bush. "It was the president's idea," coos a top White House adviser. "He really likes Susan." Absent (that is, not invited) was the senior Republican senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe. Even by Washington standards, it was a pretty good snub. "The president wanted to say thanks" to Collins, says an aide, because she wound up supporting his $350 billion tax cut after holding back at...

Idiot Senate Republicans Botching Tax Cut April 29, 2003 Why did President Bush and all of us work so hard to win back our legitimate majority in the upper house of Congress last year, if our GOP senators aren't going to fight for us? Why did we get out and vote if they're going to cave on an issue as important as reducing the one-in-three days the average American works as a slave to the government taxman? Listen for my shot at an answer to this income tax relief quagmire in the audio link below. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist...

WASHINGTON - One of the Senate's moderate Republicans who is blocking President Bush's tax cut plan said Sunday he will stand his ground and resist White House pressure to vote more than a $350 billion reduction. Asked if he would not go even a penny higher, Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio replied: "You got it. And anybody that knows George Voinovich knows that when I say something I mean it." Bush had asked Congress for $726 billion in cuts over 10 years. The House capped new tax relief at $550 billion, while the Senate agreed to cuts of no more...

Sen. John McCain says he won't be surprised if an influential conservative group that supports President Bush's tax-cutting plan targets him in attack ads. But Club for Growth President Stephen Moore says the group has no such plans. McCain remains among four Republican senators who have joined with Democrats in opposing Bush's $550 billion tax-cut plan. His appears to be a key swing vote with the president needing just two more to gain Senate approval. But the Washington, D.C.-based Club for Growth, which has been running TV spots attacking two other Republican holdouts, Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and Olympia...

<p>The ad war over President Bush's proposed tax cuts shows no sign of ending as Round 2 began yesterday in Maine with a new commercial defending Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, jointly sponsored by a labor union and a group of center- and left-leaning Republicans.</p>

Senators Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chaffee critized Sen. Rick Santorums comments as 'unfortunate' and said that 'they don't represent the ideals held by their party.'Attributed to CNN Interview

<p>PORTLAND, Maine (AP) U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe lashed back Tuesday at a conservative group running TV ads that attack her for opposing the size of President Bush's tax cut proposal.</p> <p>In ads running this week in Maine, a tax-cut advocacy group called the Club for Growth questions Snowe's Republican Party loyalty, equating her opposition to Bush's proposal to French opposition to the U.S. war with Iraq.</p>

<p>President Bush locked up support from Sen. George Voinovich for his first batch of tax cuts in 2001 with a visit to Ohio. Now, he's trying the same pressure tactic to get the Ohio Republican's support for tax cuts of $550 billion over 10 years.</p>

he group I founded has stirred up much controversy in recent days for running ads in Ohio and Maine to try to get Senators Olympia Snowe and George Voinovich to back the Bush tax-cut plan.The ads, launched by Club for Growth, state that while President Bush needed support in the war against terrorism, some of our "so-called allies" — like France — weren't there for him. The ads then state that Bush needs votes to pass his economic plan here at home, yet some "so-called Republicans" in the Senate — like Snowe and Voinovich — have said no. The...

The Wall Street Journal got it wrong on Monday when a page-one story suggested that Treasury Secretary John Snow is ready to compromise on President Bush's tax-cut plan. A senior advisor for Bush staunchly countered this claim, telling me that "the president is going for as big a tax cut as he can get with 100% of the key policy elements." The advisor added that the Bush team is "100% behind John Snow." As they should be. The president is likely to get a large chunk of his big-bang tax reform because Snow has explained it so eloquently, and unerringly,...

Olympia has bigger fish to fry. She wants a national reputation and fighting Bush on taxes is the next best news story since Iraq. Is she holding out to be Vice President Snowe? God please forbid!! Olympia or as she is known in Maine, as No Personality Snowe, wants more power and by playing games with Bush she can get it. She has not problems with fighting Republicans because there are few real Republicans in Maine. She is a Democrat who just plays a Republican. And she will jump parties too.

Show Your Support for Compassionate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe A Letter from NOW President Kim Gandy April 18, 2003 I recently sent an e-mail to Maine NOW members and activists, alerting them to the name-calling ad campaign intended to punish Sen. Olympia Snowe for being a fiscally moderate compassionate Republican. Sen. Snowe is being attacked because she prevailed in the recent Senate debate over the tax cut amount for next year. She and a few allies insisted on a moderate tax cut of $350 billion and not a penny more, rather than the $726 billion originally offered by the President...

WASHINGTON -- A conservative interest group unveiled TV ads Friday comparing two Republican senators to President Jacques Chirac of France, in hopes of shaming them into supporting President Bush's tax-cut proposals. The Club for Growth is running the ads in the home states of Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and Olympia Snowe of Maine. The ads criticize Voinovich and Snowe for opposing Bush's proposal to cut taxes by at least $550 billion over 10 years. Both senators have backed a $350 billion tax-cut plan, saying larger cuts would drive deficits too high. The closely divided Senate could not collect a...

Snowe in cross-fire of dueling ads By TOM BELL, Portland Press Herald Writer Copyright © 2003 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. Two Republican political action committees based in Washington are starting dueling advertising campaigns this weekend in Maine, one in support of Sen. Olympia Snowe, the other opposing her. The ads, which aim to influence Snowe by targeting her constituents in Maine, reveal the political pressure that Snowe is facing because of her efforts to limit President Bush's tax cut to $350 billion, less than half of his $726 billion proposal. Maine's Republican Party sharply criticized one of the ads, a...

Conservative group likens Voinovich to French By Carl Weiser Enquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - A conservative Republican group begins running TV ads today against GOP Sen. George Voinovich, likening his fight against President Bush's tax cuts to France's disloyalty to the United States during the Iraq war. In a press release announcing its $100,000 ad campaign, the anti-tax Club for Growth denounced Voinovich as a "Franco-Republican" for deserting President Bush when he needed the senator's support on his proposed $726 billion tax cut. Along with Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe - a target of identical ads - Voinovich struck a deal...