What Do You Think Of Senator Susan Collins?

[ThomWV]

C-Span is reshowing Katrina hearings. Senator Collins chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee which was one of those that took a look at the failures following the hurricane.

I've noticed her for a while now. Generally speaking I can not watch and listen to Republicans for very long. I start ranting and raving, pointing out lies to the sky and the dog.

Collins has never had that effect on me. Generally speaking she seems reasonable most the time. She's the only one from that filthy Party that doesn't get me screaming.

What do you all think of her; is there something I should know that I missed?

[SteppingRazor]

1. I think she's a Republican...

One more for the "R" column. One more senator that needs to be removed for a Democratic majority and a humane legislative agenda

[ThomWV]

5. Or Switch Partys?

Thats the thing. I know she's a Republican, but if I didn't know and someone told me that she was a conservative Democrat I wouldn't have too much trouble believing it.

Besides, more than one politician has switched partys.

[SteppingRazor]

10. But there's never even been any suggestion that she'd switch parties n/t

[jpak]

2. Sen. Chellie Pingree (D. ME) should be sitting in her chair

n/t

[BurtWorm]

34. Amen!

Thank the Democratic Party for wimping out on Chellie. :grr:

[Benhurst]

3. She's just another pretty face. NT

[Gormy Cuss]

4. She's a lightweight and not a neocon.

She tends to be inoffensive. Maine has two Republican senators who are conservatives in the Yankee style-- fiscal conservatives, social moderates.

[high density]

9. Yeah and they vote with Bush any time it really counts

Any "moderation" in the ME GOP senators went away some time ago, even though the press loves to play up how "moderate" they are. Right now they're just two more rubber stamps for the GOP machine.

[AlinPA]

13. That's the way I see it too. nt

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Voting with the party is not an indictment, is it?

Dems have been known to toss out senators and reps who vote against the party on too many issues.

Collins and Snowe are Republicans, no doubt about it. They're also immensely popular (both garnered 72% approval ratings in the most recent SurveyUSA polls, for example.) I tend to think Collins rides the coat tails of Snowe in that regard and maybe is vulnerable this year because most of the people I know who still vote in Maine view her as not influential on the Hill. With any luck there will be a sufficient backlash against the GOPers to put her at risk in the fall.

[high density]

18. Yeah, it is when you're a Republican! (NM)

[Gormy Cuss]

19. Do you vote in Maine?

What are the numbers like for Hay Bright vs. Collins? Does she have a chance?

on edit: I have it on good authority that the Bushes have started to arrive in ME for W's family birthday bash. If you're near K'port maybe you can provide a suitable tribute. Perhaps the single digit salute....

[high density]

20. Yeah I live and vote in Maine

Hay Bright doesn't really have any sort of a chance. I don't think she even had 25% of the vote at last count. What I've seen of her on TV has been rather inarticulate, so I don't have any hope that she's going to win.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

32. Hay Bright is challenging Snowe, not Collins

Collins is up for re-election in 2008

[Gormy Cuss]

35. Do you vote in Maine? n/t

[liberaldemocrat7]

24. Fiscal regressives still throw the poor under the bus.

We need to get people to get rid of as many of the REPUBLIKLAN party by vioting them out.

She talks like she appears spaced out and she appears the face of friendly fascism.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Not nearly as smart as Ollie Snowe. They should be Dems.

Though, sometimes, they stay on the Republican reservation when you least expect it.

[tularetom]

7. She's never impressed me as the sharpest knife in the drawer

Although part of this could be her manner of speaking. She talks sort of slow and always sounds happy like she doesn't really get the seriousness of what she's involved in.

[AlinPA]

14. Perfect description of her.

[high density]

8. She's a stupid republican idiot

and she does not represent me very well in the senate.

[skipos]

11. A vote for her is a vote for a Republican majority. nt

[AlinPA]

12. She acts like she is "middle of the road ", but votes with Bush** . I

could never figure out why Maine votes for her.

[Greeby]

15. The "Gentleladies from Maine" talk a good game

But if they are the swing votes, they get back in the fold pdq.

While we're on the subject of Maine, show some support for Collins truly progressive opponent, Jean Hay Bright :patriot:

http://www.jeanhaybright.us/

[Nutmegger]

16. I wouldn't vote for her.

"Moderation" = voting in lockstep for the GOP.

Chaffee, now there's a guy I can respect. He has voted against Bu$h's tax cuts and the only Repuke to vote against Iraq. Now he's in a primary battle with Laffey.

And they bitch about the Dems "purging" the Party. :eyes:

[bdamomma]

21. I don't particularly care for her.

and apparently she will support Joe.

[graywarrior]

22. I like Olympia Snowe better, but...they're both republicans

[Liberal_Dog]

23. Like All Of The Northeastern Republicans...

She is basically irrelevant.

[SoCalDem]

25. She should team up with Rita Cosby and do a tv show.

:)

[Zorra]

26. Never. Trust. A. Republican. n/t

[kentuck]

27. She's a Repubican.

...and should be replaced with a Democrat. Anymore, no Republican is a friend of our Party or the country. They have supported the moron one too many times.

[Rowdyboy]

28. She voted for "Cat-killer" Frist to run the senate. SCREW HER and Olympia

Snowe. I don't give a shit how "reasonable" either of those two losers from Maine are-they support Frist/Bush/Cheney and thats all I need to know.

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe HELPED put John Roberts and "Scalito" on the supreme court where they will treat me as a second class citizen forever... For that, they (the Maine senators) deserve only contempt.

[crim son]

33. You said it.

I've got a collection of letters from both Collins and Snowe justifying their partisan votes... Look, Maine is a poor state with an aging population. Every now and then both senators are forced take a stand that makes them appear "moderate" because they have no choice - their opposition to the closing of our military bases comes to mind - but in every other regard they vote the party line even when it conflicts with their proclaimd values. I want them both out.

[lies and propaganda]

29. her voice is very Rita Cosby ish

or something of that nature. It bothers me to no end.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

30. The flip side of supporting Ben Nelson and the like.

She has an R after her name, therefor even if her positions are more liberal than many she's a bad thing.

[napi21]

31. Yes, Susan is a Pub, but in a two party system, I much prefer her

to most of the others! She does vote with the Dems sometimes too, so it's unfair to call her an absolute rubber stamp.

I personally don't want ALL Dems in the House and Senate either! BOTH Parties can get corrupt and intollerable when they get that POWER and no longer have to fight for their ideas!

I think we've all seen what a ONE PARAATY system is like, and very few people of either party like what they see!

I say let Collins, Snowe, Chaffee, etc. alone and get rid of Hastert, Boener, McConnell, and the other REAL rubber stamp, can't ever compromise Repubs!

Personally, I'd like term limits, to get rid of that "I'm safein my job and mobody can touch me" attitude of ALL long term Congressmen!!!!!

[kentuck]

36. I disagree...

These are the Repubs we should go after...otherwise we will never have a Democratic Majority. They maintain the Repubs in power. They may be good people but they are not worth that much. They should go.