President Barack Obama will be signing into the law his economic stimulus bill today in Denver, Colorado. Of course, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is one of 3 republican Senators who voted in favor of the bill and whose votes helped get this bill to President Obama’s desk. That said, Susan made the comment recently that she just knew she would vote for the bill after having a cocktail with the president.
Say wha? Suzie-Q has to have a cocktail to do the right thing? Holy cow! This is news! Had I known this, I would have sent a bottle of booze to her when it came time for her to vote for the following bills under George W. Bush that ended up costing our country TRILLIONS and cost us our nation’s pride:
Tax cuts for the wealthy to the tune of billions/trillions
Iraq War that cost us billions/trillions
Tax cuts for the wealthy to the tune of billions/trillions
Military Commissions Act that broke our nation’s back
Tax cuts for the wealthy to the tune of billions/trillions
Patriot Act that broke our nation’s back
Sen. Susan Collins, without a cocktail in her hand, voted in favor of these bills/Acts and then provided NO OVERSIGHT of George Bush’s Thugs for years under him. BILLIONS & TRILLIONS STOLEN FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and where was Suzie-Q? Missing in action, of course.
I’m glad she voted in favor of President Obama’s economic stimulus bill, but I will never forget how much damage she did to our nation when she was sober. Never. She was one of George Bush’s biggest jackboot lickers of his economic & foreign polices and is partly to blame for our country’s current financial situation.
Cheers!
It seems that the republican party has been relying on fear tactics for a very long time in regard to democratic stimulus packages, Medicare (1965) and Social Security (1935) add these to the list of fear mongering about President Obama’s stimulus package and the constant fear mantra about WMD’s and terrorists over the past eight years.
Republicans on Clinton’s 1993 economic stimulus package:
Rep. Robert Michel (R-IL), Los Angeles Times, 5/28/93:
They will remember who let loose this deadly virus into our economic bloodstream.
Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA), GOP Press Conference, House TV Gallery, 8/5/93: I believe this will lead to a recession next year. This is the Democrat machine’s recession, and each one of them will be held personally accountable.
Republicans on Medicare:
Rep. Tim Lee Carter (R-KY), 4/65: As one of the last country doctors… I ask my colleagues to vote to recommit… a bill which will within a few years cruelly overburden the Social Security System and the young workers with growing families, who will be forced to pay higher Social Security taxes.
Rep. Durward Hall (R-MO), 4/8/65: …we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no one can see, and from which the patient is certain to be the ultimate sufferer.
Republicans on Social Security:
Rep. John Taber (R-NY), 4/19/35: Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers and to prevent any possibility of the employers providing work for the people.
Rep. Daniel Reed (R-NY), 1935: The lash of the dictator will be felt and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test.
Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R-NY), 1935: This bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.
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kay – why do you think there are so few minorities living in Maine? Hell, I would bet my kid’s school district has more minorities than the entire state of Maine.
Duh! Why are there so few minorities in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and other far northern states? (other than Native Americans) Could it be that the slave ships brought them to the warm southern slave states where the cotton, tobacco, and sugar were growing? The main reason why people from tropical climes, even a warmer Old South moved north in the first place was due to JOBS which during the depression and World War II were more plentiful in the North. I grew up in a county 80 miles from Chicago and there were no African-Americans in my county nor in most northern Indiana counties outside of the Calumet region and South Bend. I didn’t have my first black classmate until I went to college. Where I lived, just south of the Michigan border, I can remember blacks traveling through going to the alley doors of restaurants for “carry out” as restaurants in Yankeeland took pride in their signs, “We reserve the right to refuse service to ANYONE!” We had “unwritten” Jim Crow! A black truck driver froze to death on a sub-zero night sleeping in his truck and it was discovered later that he had been turned away from the two motels in our little town. Louie Armstrong and other big bands could PLAY at Michiana resort hotels, but at 2 a.m. had to pack up their instruments and travel another hour or two to “black hotels” in South Bend as they were not allowed to STAY in these “whites only” hotel resorts.
But we hypocritical Yankees loved to jump all over the southerners for their racism.
What kind of minority are you talking about? Women? Brown/black skinned people? If you’re talking about the latter, we have a 4% minority population up here. As to the reason, I have no idea. I could care less if it increased either. We have racists up here, but everytime they rear their ugly heads, they get their asses kicked by the ANGRY WHITES. Trust me on this. Maine 100-150 years ago was a different place than it is today.
If you’re trying to insinuate that Maine is the most racist state in the nation as some have (and she wears a size 32 shoe and calls herself Elizabeth), you’re wrong. Nice try though!
kay – I know very little about Maine. That is why I’m asking.
Also, I don’t believe in painting entire states, regions, groups of people and political affiliations with a broad brush. I’m certaon there are racist people in Maine – like everywhere else.
Where there is racism, hate and ignorance you are sure to find a republican’t. Is that too broad of a brush for you Charley?
Yes Charlie “blue falcon” Sweeny, some people are more racist then others …… and for some reason the reich-wing taliban attracts most of them.
If the Republican NEOCONS walk like fascist ducks, talk like fascist ducks, maybe they are actually fascist ducks.