Susan Collins (R-ME) “simply can’t in good conscience vote for Mr. Geithner.”

Obama's advocate gave her every opportunity to recant her heresy, too.

By: Moe Lane (Diary) | January 26th, 2009 at 05:52 PM |

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[UPDATE]: HA! In your FACE, Allahpundit. 60/34. Which still means that we’re putting in charge of our taxes somebody who can’t do his.

But Senator Collins (R-ME) wasn’t having any of it.

Oh, did I say “Obama’s advocate?” I meant to say “Andrea Mitchell, objective journalist for NBC News.” Be sure to go all to the end; the point where Ms. Mitchell plaintively asks why such a moderate Republican as Senator Collins (R-ME) is thinking to hold the line on this one is almost worth it right there. Mind you, Allahpundit’s right: Geithner is going to get confirmed.

But what the heck: I’ll take the under. 63/36.

Crossposted at Moe Lane.

Tags: maine, our objective media, susan collins, tax cheat, tim geithner

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Next93

If Geithner becomes secretary of the Treasury, and I make an honest mistake on my taxes, do I get to be assistant secretary of the Treasury?

Just wondering. I use Turbo Tax, too. And since I’m not a financial “genius” like he is, I’d guess my chances of an honest mistake are somewhat high.
Jonah Shumate

Susan Collins has done what every single politician should do; put a stop to someone who flat out has not paid their taxes!!!!!!! I dont know what seems to be the issue here. Its WRONG to have someone in this position who has not done what the office demands; pay taxes accordingly.
Vegas_Rick

I considered that Ms Collins might have a back bone. Being a “moderate” Republican, we can usually count on her to vote with the Dems.
Tbone

that the further someone is from the “Right”, the less likely they are to demand basic honesty OR competency from someone else.

What’s even funnier is that it is true.
zuiko
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

We usually had the votes to pass or block cloture even without her.
USNJIMRET

Both Colorado boot Senators voted “Aye”.
Cannot for the life of me understand how someone can vote to approve someone for this job, any job really, when that someone is a proven liar and cheat.
And, once again, if he was a Republican, no matter how popular the President was, his nomination would have died a horrible death in the DBM.
Handing the money over to Geithner is likely the biggest mistake this year, so far.
USNJIMRET
http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit
http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

lol
TC Robinson

Six senators didn’t cast a vote. Gillibrand is the only one not there, so that’s 5 senators that didn’t vote on the nomination. Seriously, what the heck?
Addison

…how else was she supposed to prove she was on your side without actually doing something substantial?
furious

…Summers as an alternative to Geithner. He, at least, knows how to use TurboTax.

A Treasury Secretary who doesn’t understand the Tax Code.
A Secretary of State whose husband takes big money from Foreign Powers.
An Attorney General who advocates commutations for Terrorists and Pardons for Fugitives.

We are so screwed.
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

This is internal GOP business, so no throwing peanuts from the other side of the stands.
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

NT
Addison

…that’s true. I’ll mock a Democratic Senator here at some point during the next week to make up for it. It’ll probably be Burris, though, so I don’t know how much that’ll be worth. If only Caroline Kennedy had gotten appointed, you know, um, the choice of which one to mock, would, uh, have been, you know, easier.
mbecker908
Martin Knight

She done went and got herself a spine!
$peciallist

Picture Geithner sitting at his computer and he’s having trouble with Turbo-tax…………LOLOLOL

If there has been a bigger LIE in the last human earth year…I’d like to hear it…..

F’n LIARS…every damn one of them!!….
$peciallist

np
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00015

Yea (R)
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
Ensign
Graham
Gregg
Hatch
Shelby
Snowe
Voinovich

Nay (D)
Byrd
Harkin

NV
Bond (R)
Brown (D)
Kennedy (D)
Wyden (D)

Could have been worse. A 70/30 split looked a lot more likely, honestly.
CarlSchurz

I hope someone runs against Corker next election.
$peciallist

f’n liars…..I am soooo over this crax…..
zsmvf6

Link here

Brief synapsis:

Republicans who voted for confirmation:
Shelby, Snowe, Voinovich, Cornyn, Crapo, Corker, Ensign, Hatch, Graham, Gregg.

Democrats who voted against confirmation:
Byrd, Feingold, Harkin, Sanders

Not voting:
Bond (R), kennedy (D), Brown (D), Wyden (D)
USNJIMRET

It could have been way, WAY better.
50/44 would have made for many a happy camper!
This crud, to avoid any language issues, of giving the new President everything he wants…….even when he wants an idiot, is corruption!
In your face corruption.
izoneguy

Where did his balls go?

Did Hillary take them?
E Pluribus Unum

NT
Hoover

D = get a pass, and get a promotion

R = get attacked by the press and no vote held on confirmation. Plus you’ll be audited and possible prosecuted.

I like Andrea mitchell. “I’m playin devils advocate here…” Sure, that’s what it is. You’re definitely don’t doing PR/cover for the democrats. Mitchell is just as partisan as a nutcase like olbermann or matthews, she’s just not as insane.
zsmvf6
zsmvf6
zsmvf6
izoneguy
Han_Pritcher

“If there was no Martin Luther King Jr. and no Roland Burris, there would be no Barack Obama in the White House today,” Burris said to cheers at a Rainbow PUSH Coalition breakfast in Chicago. “We must recognize, friends, that we all stand on each other’s shoulders.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1397821,burris-president-obama-012908.article

Seriously, that man is so cool he should probably erect his own mausole……oh, wait……
Praying

Per http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00015:
(which seems to be the same link you used – Did I read it wrong? I’ve double checked?

They list Byrd, Feingold, and Harkin as NAY Dem voters. So only 3 Dems defected, and 10 GOP? HEY STUPID – IT’S THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE!!! OK, this was just practice. I expect you to do WAY better on the Pork Barrel Spending Bill, OK? You won’t get any more chances! See Moe’s list? That’s the GOP hit list. Even McCain did the right thing, this time!

I’m SO disappointed in Tennessee – Alexander voted for the second half of the Bail-out, and Corker voted for Geithner. You guys get our emails and phone calls – do you just not care???
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/ Brian Simpson
izoneguy
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

I must have either missed it, or the other person did.
http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit
Praying

I consider this the “hit list” for the GOP next election. Unfortunately we have to wait 6 years to get rid of Alexander, Mr. “sure, let’s give ‘em another $350 billion of TARP money, cuz they did such a good job with the first half.” So I consider the past two votes “practice” – but they’d BETTER do the right thing on the Pork Barrel Spending Bill vote…
$peciallist

Arrrrrrgggg
JustLeaveMeAlone

I thought he was showing promise when he kept Hillary from her free ride, but this is totally unacceptable.

Jeez, even Hutchinson voted No.
Jack

Call (202) 675-6000 and tell them what you think of the 10 supposed GOP senators that voted for a tax cheat. Look this is not funny anymore. I am not going to give any more of my money of seem to be involved in a suicide pact.

Until John Cornyn grows a backbone, an actual backbone, and rips into a democrat any dammed democrat I am sitting out 2010. I will take my $2,000 and spend in on a trip to France would rather give money to the French then this group of losers we have now

Oh yes I am emailing everyone I know and telling them to sit this one out. George Voinvovich can’t bring himself to vote for John Bolton but he can for Timothy Geithner? Cornyn is the Chair of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. Charles Schumer in two cycles never voted for anything that could even resemble helping the GOP. Cornyn is a fool.
RoxannaDanna

I can’t believe this guy has been confirmed. I called and emailed both my senators today (Kyle and McCain) although I was pretty confident that they would both vote NO. I’m appalled at Graham, Hatch, and especially Ensign voted to confirm. (Nevada is really my “home” state although I know longer live there.)

American Solutions sent out an email urging everyone to contact their Senators today. Of their last poll of 83,000 votes, 98% of those polled were against his appointment.I know that when I called today, the lines were very busy and had to make a couple of attempts to get through. And as I said, I emailed them, as well.

The confirmation hearings were a total joke, literally and figuratively. I’ve never seen a nominee get such soft peddle treatment in my life. Those hearings were disgusting to watch.Some of those senators were down right giddy and it was embarrassing to see.

I hope that when election time rolls around in 2010, Republicans don’t forget or someone is there to remind them of this. I hope no one forgets this.

I’m just appalled.
TC Robinson

What a frickin hipocrite. I thought he was the TARP crusader, then he actually goes and approves the person who helped cause the need for the very money he didn’t want to dole out. Who wants to bet he switches back to the D’s side before the end of this year?

And Corker? He just lost his primary race to one Hank Williams, Jr.
$peciallist

go to your profile and replace all the quotation marks with …..Quotation marks….just do it…
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

So we spend tomorrow yelling about how the Holder vote HAD BETTER be better.
RoxannaDanna

I left a scathing (but not obscene) message and reminded them that 2010 is not far off. People will be reminded just who voted in favor of this tax cheat!!
http://conservative-and-proud.blogspot.com/ eschristian

n/t
RoxannaDanna

and trying to get the little logos in my sig line and it won’t work for me.

You know, it’s not like I just entered the internet age last year. I’ve been doing this for over 10 years so I’m not totally ignorant…. just a little.. LOL

I’ll keep trying to fix it but I had no one to ask for help so I just kept doing the same things over and over.

Thank you for pointing it out… I’ll keep trying to fix this.
http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

as TAX CHEATING has been deemed NO BIGGIE with this Appointment… so how can Pardoning a Tax Cheat be an issue….

President was best buds with Terrorists, so that can’t be an issue anymore….

gotta go on Elian (or Alien) Gonzalez, but hey… what is just one more judgement issue!?!? REALLY??

Senate Republicans are WORTHLESS!
http://conservative-and-proud.blogspot.com/ eschristian

I can’t believe McCain did not go with the left – I must say I am surprised but happy. Lindsey Graham that goober is such a butt kisser – what a punk.
mbecker908

Nor mine (I’m in Phoenix, where are you?).

He may get elected in Arizona, but he represents the people who work in the Beltway. His name should properly be noted John McCain (M- Beltway). Who says DC doesn’t have representation.
RoxannaDanna

One problem solved. It looks almost right now.
RoxannaDanna

and I agree that he really does not represent us here. And he is not a conservative. But he’s the guy who votes for us…
mbecker908

Been in Kingman once. We had a Blizzard at the DQ.
Democracy_First

NRSC Chairman John Cornyn and Policy Chairman John Ensign both voted yea today for the tax cheat.

They should be forced to resign their positions.

I am stunned there isn’t conservative outrage.
NightTwister

It gets downright hot there in the summer.
mbecker908

and your point is?
Praying

Someone on this site mentioned the name of another person in TN who is interested in running (Alexander has to either start toeing the line or get the heck outta here) – in 50 years I’ve never gotten involved in any campaign work, but there is a first time for everything, and that time is now…
Praying

I know that’s what you meant…
itrytobenice

Geithner used Turbo Tax so he could save $48,000 on his taxes. No tax professional would have deliberately falsified his tax returns that way.

His W2 didn’t show a SS tax. Alert Mode..Alert Mode. Right there, they would have consulted with him, completed a Schedule SE and asked for a check.

Geithner did it himself so he could cheat. Period.
Praying

I’ve been meaning to ask this – what does “5″ or “5555555″ or “5′s” mean? I’m kinda new to this whole blog thing, and I’m still learning.
dwarfmama

He was the first to jump to the Republican party in 1995. Maybe the Dems haven’t offered him a good enough deal yet?
$peciallist

tbone?….
$peciallist

6 pages I fill out…which is nothing….I missed crossing a T on one of the pages one year…

I started receiving Bi-monthly letters demanding that I correct the problem or I would be Doomed….

Barry and Geithner are full of it…like No other….
RoxannaDanna

next time you and mbecker come through, give us a call and we’ll meet at Whataburger.

They closed DQ last month… broke my heart. The only place in town to get a marshmelleo sundae with nuts, whipped cream and a cherry…. MMMMMM comfort food!!!!

And now it’s gone.
$peciallist

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$peciallist

np=no pic
RoxannaDanna

if Hank’s running.
cookcountyconservative

n/t
CarlSchurz

Is Running for US Senator? Where do I sign up? Really, I’ll work for him. He is a country boy. Where do I sign, I am serious.

A country boy can survive.
janis

I’d vote for either of them in a heartbeat.
TxCon

at the vote of my junior senator. At a loss for words. SHAME! SHAME!
mbecker908

He’s still a doddering old fool who should be passing his time playing with his wife’s money.

Graham, OTOH, should be doing an in-depth, in-person study of what’s wrong in Zimbabwe.
E Pluribus Unum

It’s not often you see Graham stray like that from Johnny Mac.
Right_Again

Just as I was thrilled to throw the bum, Cannon out of office this past election, I look forward to two new Senators when Bennett and Hatch are next up for re-election. Bennett might have voted no on Geithner, but he has ticked me off enough times in the past that I will be actively assiting real Republicans to replace him in the next election.

I would take former Governor Leavitt and/or current Governor Huntsman in a heartbeat.
Michael Dugas

n/t
Michael Dugas

He knew the Dems had the votes so there was no reason to piss us off with a yes vote. If the vote had been close I bet he would have voted yes.
mbecker908

on just about any issue, no matter how he votes.
Michael Dugas

I think I remember that Glenn Beck talked to him about it.
He said he disagreed with alot of Dem policies but wanted to
fix it from the inside or some such thing.
spainishirish

For whatever inexplicable reason, the good people of South Carolina just returned Graham to the Senate. I think that had more to do with the divergence in their votes than any vestiges of principle.

Now I want to say something nice. Collins just got re-elected. She did what she thought was the right thing to do, even in her Blue State. Collins is to be commended.

The real litmus test for Republicans, regardless of whether they are moderate or conservative or just re-elected or up for election in 2010 or whatever, will be the massive economic stimulus swindle. I personally can’t see how anyone can claim to be a Republican if they vote for it. This is one time good policy will make for good politics. The Dems are desperate to attach Republican faces to this boondoggle and claim it as “bipartisan.” This is their scheme, and given its probability of failure, their burden to carry into 2010. Let ‘em.
spainishirish

For whatever inexplicable reason, the good people of South Carolina just returned Graham to the Senate. I think that had more to do with the divergence in their votes than any vestiges of principle.

Now I want to say something nice. Collins just got re-elected. She did what she thought was the right thing to do, even in her Blue State. Collins is to be commended.

The real litmus test for Republicans, regardless of whether they are moderate or conservative or just re-elected or up for election in 2010 or whatever, will be the massive economic stimulus swindle. I personally can’t see how anyone can claim to be a Republican if they vote for it. This is one time good policy will make for good politics. The Dems are desperate to attach Republican faces to this boondoggle and claim it as “bipartisan.” This is their scheme, and given its probability of failure, their burden to carry into 2010. Let ‘em.
JSobieski

She does vote correctly much of the time. When she doesn’t, she tends not to be an active leader of some large rebellion.

When one considers the blue-ness of her state, I have absolutely no problem with being enthusiastically supportive of Susan Collins. Similarly, I was quite fond of Chris Shays and am a big support of Coleman.

its squishes like McCain and Graham that get my blood pressure up.
$peciallist

she’s just as bad as the others..ugg
http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

Link.
6eorge Jetson

…Can anyone explain this new “Geithner deduction?” TT is marketing it as the “Foot Wedge” for the Tax Season.
$peciallist

:/
Addison

…in my pocket I wouldn’t have mentioned him.
Martin Knight

One may be inclined to think that if the nomination was in trouble, he would have voted “yea” to show how “bipartisan” he was – after all, why would his chief sycophant vote “yea” if not under his master’s orders?

But that’s not being fair.

Give him credit here.
NightTwister

The one in Kannapolis, N.C. had Cherry-lemon Sundrop. I can still almost taste it.
janis

only a Republican like many of us are–right now he’s got no other horse to ride. He is a deeply conservative man and most of us would agree with his views on illegal immigration, spending, gun rights, etc.

I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
Aaron Gardner

That bings back memories of my misspent youth in Phoenix…now I am in VT, no whataburger, no jack in the box, no carl’s jr……and it’s cold to boot…..maybe someday I will finally move back to AZ.
http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
E Pluribus Unum

But then Texas is pretty much the epicenter of all things that matter – Dr Pepper, Dairy Queen, Mrs Baird’s Bread (for all you heathen outlanders, it is THE bread referred to when the dictionary says ‘bread’) the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and ….well…. Texas itself.

If the United States was a religion, Texas would be Jerusalem.
Praying

I now understand!
Praying

You were the one who mentioned this earlier. Corker did another stupid yesterday (voted for Geithner) so I’m looking at ALL options for alternatives. California has their liberal Hollywood idols, Tennessee has their conservative/country singers. I love it!
janis

would see Corker for who he is, as he just can’t help himself from being a squish. Alexander’s a squish, too, but at least he did the right thing in this instance.

Avoid Tim McGraw and Faith Hill like the plague. They love Bill Clinton with an unhealthy passion.

RS

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Susan Collins (R-ME) “simply can’t in good conscience vote for Mr. Geithner.”

Obama's advocate gave her every opportunity to recant her heresy, too.

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