Let me draw up a scenario for you. You’re a long-term incumbent Republican in a purple state that may or may not be trending blue. You’ve always been a moderate and coasted to easy elections in the general. However, a bunch of rabble-rousing conservatives and tea partiers, the kind of people you never liked anyway, have propped up some firebrand conservative candidate, and the polling | Read More »
There is a unique strategy shaping up in the United States Senate to get cap-and-tax passed. Lindsey Graham is going to go to the extreme side. Graham’s support of the cap-and-tax global warming bill that passed the House of Representatives is the left’s dream version of a “climate change” bill, but the realists know it is not going to pass. Graham is going to offer | Read More »
Roll Call is dumbing down the Jim Bunning story in the Senate, calling what he is doing a filibuster. Senate Republicans sought Tuesday to insulate themselves from the damage caused by Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) filibuster of a bill that would extend unemployment and health benefits and highway programs. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) took to the floor Tuesday morning to ask that the Senate vote | Read More »
From the Politico A rep for Collins told us their offices are swamped, both in Maine and in D.C. Collins’ spokesman Kevin Kelley said most are calling to thank Collins for her support. When calls to the United States Senate are running 10 to 1 against the plan, no freakin’ way Susan Collins is being told thanks. (202) 224-2523 is her phone number. Don’t let | Read More »
Arlen, Olympia, and Susan sold out America and voted for the stimulus. Arlen Specter went on Sean Hannity’s show and said John McCain was wrong. The stimulus, according to Arlen, is $780 billion, not the $827 billion McCain said. Collins said she could not support a bill as large as the $819.5 billion package passed by the House last week. “We don’t want a package | Read More »
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