RINO? GOP Sen. Susan Collins Says She‘ll Vote Against Paul Ryan’s House Budget Plan
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Via Weasel Zippers comes the story.
The Hill reports:
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.) said Friday that she will not support the 2012 budget passed by the House last week.
“I don‘t happen to support Congressman Ryan’s plan but at least he had the courage to put forth a plan to significantly reduce the debt,“ Collins said on ”In the Arena” a program on WCSH 6, a local NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine.
Collins is the first Republican senator to state publicly that she will not support the Ryan budget.
The plan, crafted by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), would cut $5.8 trillion in spending over 10 years and transform Medicare into a sort of voucher system, among other measures, to balance the budget by 2040 without raising taxes.
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Comments (390)
James83940
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:50pm“RINO?” Are you being sarcastic or just late to the political game? Collins and Snowe are as Democratic as you get in the Northeast.
Report Post »usmc1063
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:48pmSomehow I think she has been drinking the Kool Aid it’s dulled her sense of reality.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:47pmTokyo Rose
Report Post »mramise
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:46pmIs any surprised by her words…………perhaps she should consider being a Democratic
Report Post »“Collins, her eyes closed” or in other words a refusal to understand on her part for what is really at hand today.
I.Gaspar
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:46pmShe is a dirtbag, but more importantly, how does the Republican party let her run? and what do they put in the water up there that causes Maine to elect her??
Report Post »mill
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:42amThey have been drained of any common sense. Why vote republican when the candidate is democrat. MAINE…WAKE UP!!!
Maybe the republican party of Maine is a cover up for a real democrat party.
RINO…well, YES…she is not a true Republican by any means.
If her people in Maine don’t care…then outside powers need to take the Republican party in Maine in hand and get a real Republican candidate and push her out.
Report Post »..but it won’t happen will it? . Boehner needs to give us an explanation for this woman and her voting.
DaveOregon
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:45pmCollins has always been a Rhino. Nothing new here – move along.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 12:10pmWhy do so many people put H in RINO’s ? it‘s not the animal it’s Republican In Name Only whats the H stand for in your world
Report Post »Rob
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:44pmThat stupid twaat is a progressive…. I don’t like her… trust her…. or approve of her very existence.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:38pm@LIBERALSBEDAMNED~~~ It did the instant she sold her soul to the devil.
Report Post »green_manalishi
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:13pmSusan Collins has a soul? when did this happen.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:38pmYa but the folks in Maine will just vote them right back in.I guess it`s because their brains are frozen
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:38pmSooooo!!! Nice to know that Obummer has his own Monica Czar.
Report Post »ilovetheusa1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:36pmI am surprised she could talk while Bama was doing his thing to her.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:01amfunny!
Report Post »chiefparker
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:35pmIt’s courageous but will not support it. What kind of double talking oafs do you take us for Mzzz Collins?
Report Post »the old plumber
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:35pmUp here in Maine it is going to be R.I.N.O. season come election year, we will be glad to send her home
Report Post »and put a TEA PARTY Senator in the office she has sided with the Dem.s too long and needs to be put out of work .
brinksmom
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:33pmI intend to do everything I can to defeat the RINOs like collins snowe and grahamnesty in 2012. And I do not live in one of the states stupid enough to elect and re-elect them.
Report Post »beppepaka
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:31pmI expect nothing less from representatives of New England states
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:54pmI cringe every day!
Report Post »AllAmericanG
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:22pmHEY! Not OK. NH is doing incredible things right now! Our House and Senate just passed a right to work bill with a veto proof majority – which will make us the ONLY state in the enite north east with such a law. We don’t have gun reistration in the state and they are working on a concealed carry w/out a permit law. They just lowered a variety of taxes and are reworking our entire public employee pension program.
Both Chambers of our state legislator went to a veto proof Republican majority in fact. Don’t lump us in with the rest of the Commies that surround us!
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:30pmWOW, who would have seen that coming.
Report Post »AllAmericanG
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:01pmRight. Anyone on here from Maine? Please do your part to replace your Senators.
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:30pmIdid not hear any plan that the Senator said she would get behind. Is this more pandering to the voters? How long do these Elites think that they can buy votes with our money?
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:54pmTheir plan is the decline and fall of the United States.
Report Post »cdeputy
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:28pmIt‘s time to challenge these two RiNO’s. They have supported failure for too long now.
Report Post »rds1945
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:26pmWhat is the problem with our two most northern states. Maine, two RINOs. Alaska one RINO.
Report Post »I’m so disappointed Alaskans fell for the political smearing. Maybe they will catch up with what is going on by the next election.
DMSNC
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:26pm@Darmok – thank you. Really, do we always have to dance around the obvious?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:36pmAs Forrest Gump said, “I may be a stupid man, but I know what communism is” or something like that. Collins and Snowe should just join Bernie Sanders and “Show us what democracy looks like”.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:26pmShocked?
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:58pmNo………not at all…She’s a professional Rhino.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:52amAnd she looks like one too.
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 5:22amYes, we have to get rid of the RINO’s!
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 8:13amShe has not even read the Ryan Bill as it has not yet gone to the Senate. If she intends to OPPOSE the Bill, why not state the REASONS?
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:26pmVOTE HER OUT. SIMPLE SOLUTION. COLLINS and her pal…forgot her name right now…DEMS… VOTE THEM OUT.
Report Post »AllAmericanG
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:27pmOlympia Snowe
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 12:58pmAnd that beeeeitch from Alaska, Skicow or something or other!
Report Post »sparta
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:25pmNo problem collins, we know you are just another political plantation scag, we do not plan on your re-election anyhow! Drain the swamp!
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:27pmA quote form pelosi, Now it works!!
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:25amWe throw EVERYTHING we have at her and Ms. SnowBall.
Report Post »Give them both the UtahBobBennett treatment
Rached Madcow SHOW
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:25pmThat’s what you call a career decision.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:41pmThere will be a lot of Republican voting against Ryans bill – it does not reduce the debt but actually raises it in 10 years and his deal on Medicare is not going over well with the American public.
Report Post »http://wp.me/pYLB7-V0
Johnny 7 OMA
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:03amBack in the ’60s, my seventh grade reading teacher (70 year old Mrs. Upton ) told us to always be vigilant because the Russians promised to take over America without ever firing a shot. Khrushchev had banged his shoe on the podium and said “We will bury you”. He or someone else went on to explain that it would take 30 years, but they would take over the colleges and universities, the news media, the democratic political party, turn our lower education system upside down, and end capitalism. In those days, the only people that were allowed to leave Russia were English speaking college professors bound for the USA.
Report Post »Well, it’s been over 40 years and nothing has happened . So I guess my reading teacher was wrong.
NYSTREETKID
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:06amI lived in maine for 2 Hard to take years for a job,They are truly brain dead. The vote out any new employment or power bill because of the nature thing. I just could not understand a people that are pro gun ,but anti-new business. anti-tax,but love government programs. the Bipolar state
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:13am@ JZS . “ but it worries me a democrat ” enough said.. be worried ..yeah , be very worried..
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:15am@walkwithme.. ummm, yeah !!! ……………. ok
Report Post »Hoosierchap
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:14am@Dealer678
Report Post »You are kind of like Obummer who wants to blame Bush for everything….you obviously have a low opinion of women as you have a couple of posts here discrediting them….As far as Adam & Eve….Adam was “weak” thus the reason he caved. I can’t stand in front of of my Savior and say he/she made me do it! I am accountable and know right from wrong. Nice try though! Get off the gender issue as it doesn’t apply here. Vote them out because they are RINO’s….nuf said.
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:48am@ Walks
Report Post »The Ryan Budget continues to increase the debt for 10 yrs. No Kidding!! And your answer is what? Cut a third ot thebudget this year, and again next year. The addiction to spending in Washington has been like crack for the past 50 years.
tifosa
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:07pmTrue MATEY, increases the deficit by $6T, and the Obama plan does too. But know what balances the budget by 2012? The CPC FY2012! Know what else this plan has? The word “Progressive” in it. Sweet, no? :)
Report Post »http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20Budget.pdf
Armed Patriot
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:00pm@walkwithme1966 “There will be a lot of Republican voting against Ryans bill – it does not reduce the debt but actually raises it in 10 years and his deal on Medicare is not going over well with the American public.”
Because the mainstream media (nobamas propaganda wing) are lying to the American people about what it does. So are you by the way.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 7:05am@veryseniorcitizen.. Sorry but you’ve been dthe uped by Pelosi and the like.. HERE THIS..
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 7:13am@veryseniorcitizen.. Sorry but you’ve been duped by Pelosi , obama and the like.. HERE THIS, The Ryan budget plan DOES NOT cut social security or medicare for seniors that are already on it.. in fact until its passed from that point on if You are 50 years old or older ,YOU ARE SAFE ( so to speak, as if having s.s or medi means a good thing) NOTHING WILL BE TOUCHED OR CUT..Ryans budget starts to wean people below that age limit off, so they don’t pay in to it, they don’t receive it.. STOP WATCHING MSLSD , Because you sound like you’re tripping when you do.. GET THE FACTS BEFORE CRYING POOR…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:23pmCan she just switch already, just put a D behind both of the Maine senators names.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:30pmIMHBLO, you can expect more and more of this. GOP members that are there as a result of Tea Party movement efforts are PRIME candidates to co opted by the systemically corrupt system. I fully expect a 70% mortality rate of recently elected GOP / Tea Party candidates to the “evil” side.
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:35pmWhats’s in the water up there that they elect these dipweeds?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:45pmJust another progressive idiot.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:46pm@Jalad:
Nah, leave the R in her name; it will soon enough be meant as in “Retired by the People” in 2012.
The only way she could redeem her denial of the Ryan Budget Plan would be her supporting even more conservative measures for slashing spending and reducing the national debt than that plan has already made,
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:47pm………
Report Post »This is a non story.
Susan Colling and Olympia Snowe have been RINO’s for years.
If the good people of Maine are dumb enough to elect them,
please don’t foist them on me. Tax yourself.
Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:47pmHey Susan, bow down to your master when you meet him THE OBUMBLER must be respected, while your at it why not just sell the Republicans down the river – RINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:51pmWhat is with the ? in the headline? She has always been known as a Rino along with our other Senator from Maine.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:59pmAnd a HUGE shock it is……
Report Post »Susan Collins(D) Maine
Olympia Snowe(D) Maine
Feels right, doesn’t it girls,
Come out come out whoever you are.Show us who you really are!
BetterDays
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:00pmRINO and Council on Foreign Relations member to boot, so let’s give her the boot!
Report Post »varptr
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:05pmI was hoping she wanted to be more austere. As Limbaugh pointed out today, the outgo for 2011 will be over 7 trillion, 7 trillion including the various obligations and debt servicing, according to O’s people 3 billion a day but when you count previous obligation plus debt service 21 plus billion dollars a day. We are flushing away the lives of 15000 citizens a day, 4,500,000 people per year lose their lives to this national atrocity/stupidity. A giant space alien size BF’ing cork would seem to be in order!
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:06pmWhat happened after this picture was taken that changed her mind. Get rid of her
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:07pm@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Report Post »The problem I see in 2012, is everyone keeps saying we only need 5 or 6 seats and we get the senate back, conservatives also have to look at gains to overtake these RINOS, not only these 2 but Lindsey “I don’t have a clue” Graham.
lovenfl3
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:08pmThis is not shocking at all. She is about as conservative as Sean Penn. We need to get all these Rino’s out in 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdScVerrBU She probably also thinks high gas prices under Obama is a good thing.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:09pmWhat a dizzy b***h.. And gone with the wind, 11/2012.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:33pmThat picture says a lot to me. She was singled out by Osama because she”s weak. Dont get mad at me BUT women are naturally gullible and she took the bait
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:37pmIt took next door to forever to get rid of that toad Arlen Specter and that moron Lincoln Chaffey. Either the people of Maine will get off of whatever it is that makes them vote these two harpys back year after year of hey will have the good grace to grow old and die. Either way eventually we will be rid of them.
Report Post »patriotflllc
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:51pmAmen. She is not on the right side of most anything.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:52pmI love women. I’m married to one. But just like in the Garden of Eden it was the woman who trusted the snake
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:00pm@ ISLESFORDION
How dare you leave out the other lady RINO from New England….Scott Brown!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:20pmShe says we have a $1,600,000,000,000 ( 1.6 Trillion ) in overspending this year. Her two pet cuts are the 6 Billion ethanol subsidy and the already canceled second engine for the F-35. How bold, how decisive, how about this ………This Government is Borrowing 4 Billion a day that’s one and half days of borrowing
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:24pmNO TO THE TEA PARTY
Report Post »who were you last week?
408 CheyTac
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:33pmD, R both are the same, what does it matter?
Report Post »PartyofKNOW
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:36pm@RULER4YOU SO, what part of her being the old guard of GOP don’t you understand. Although Boehner and the old guard are not doing so well, I do have faith in a majority of the Tea Party winners. She took office in 1997, and certainly is a Progressive, She needs to leave in ‘12.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:37pmdoesn’t matter for her now,,,,,,her political career is over.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:48pmSleeping with the enemy?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:50pmI‘m surprised she’s not demanding that hurricanes be named so as to promote the black community. No, that’s Jackson-Lee in Texas. Well, there is always the Muslim community, with names like Muhammedetta, Kahlidia, Moumaretta, and Obamaretia.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:52pmSorry guys, you’re a lot more of this. Adults are are taking back the asylum from the inmates. The inmates served their purpose in the last election, but now smart people are trying to steer the ship away from the fringe, a fringe that leads to defeat in the next election.
Jan Brewer vetoed a birther bill and a gun bill. Republicans are trying to marginalize Trump (not Democrats, they love Trump and his campaign). Bachman caved on the birther issue. Romney is being smart by staying out of the news and avoid association with the loony stuff.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but some smart people somewhere are telling Republicans to stop trying to appeal to the fringe and start trying to appeal to the moderates and independents. You guys hate it I’m sure. But it worries me as a Democrat to think that someone or some group, actually understands that the fringe isn’t going to decide the next election.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:25pmNo to tea says some common since for a change??? common since isn’t that common, sounds like treason to me!!
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:14amPerfect example why we need term limits.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:35amHey JZS,
You guys are in for such a rude awakening. And I believe that deep down inside your vacant souls, you know it too.
You, encinom, dawgie & crew are frantic because your grand vision is in it’s death throes.
You fail to realize that every post you make that reeks of marxism, PC, or whining liberalism, only infuriates and energizes us even more. You may be having giggles now by mocking and insulting us, but trust me, you are not gaining any converts here. You are only making us stronger, and more resolute.
You think last Novembers election was a fluke? That was just a midterm. Wait until 2012 when we really have a reason to go vote. (And we won’t be voting for the Donald)
Buh buh buh baby you just ain’t seen nu nuthin yet.
What happened to Akmiikeus? No intestinal fortitude? Or did it change it’s name?
Oh, and speaking of fringe, you can take off the Daniel Boone jacket. It doesn’t do thing for you. It makes your……………..
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:40amMaine is weird. She’s weird.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:28amWhy can’t she talk normal? How does one get elected when she sounds like she’s going into a seizure?
Report Post »229Mick
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:28amAfter what happened to arlan specter she wouldn’t dare. Why anybody is voting for her in a primary I can’t imagine though.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:29amSen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.) should enjoy her next two years. Cause it’s her last two years as a GOP Senator. If she runs on the Dem ticket, thats fine too. We can still kick her rear-end!
Take the “best choice for POTUS” Poll…
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Showtime
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 3:22amI hope she has her resume current. She’s going to need it after the 2012 elections. Arlen Specter had to find another job.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 4:29amNot surprised, she really is a democrat at heart. Yes, she should just change parties. I’m tired of hearing about her always voting against the best interests of America. How do these people keep getting elected ?
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 5:32amShe knows that the plan would undergo significant changes before ever being adopted. Why is she speaking out about it now? Its too early. Why would she not try to help amend the proposal to everyone’s liking to get it passed? This is not about the proposal. This is about personal politics for herself alone.
Report Post »VET4TRUTH
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 6:36amSnow and Collins need to go
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:08amIt‘s one of the RINO’s islesfordian puts into office.. Case rested…
Report Post »Barricade
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 7:29amI live in Maine and I am so sick of Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. Every time the Democrats announce a bi-partisan vote that passes idiotic, useless legislation you can count on those two having voted for it. Unfortunately the left seems to have taken over the southern half of Maine where it is densely populated. Every day when I drive to work I dodge Priuses on the highway with their Hopey Changey bumper stickers. I can’t wait for those two to come up for re-election- I think more and more people in Maine are getting sick of their progressive views. We took the majority from the Dems in the House, Senate and the Governorship in the last election. Go Paul LePage!! Lose that socialist mural somewhere we’ll never find it.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 8:05amshes number one on the tea partys hit parade. this is one stooge we need to get rid of. we need real republicans running against her. its about time we the people stood up and demanded that these traitors all be arrested and tried for this attempted overthrow of our system of government. just because they think they cant be arrested for their crimes dont mean we the people got to put up with it. remember the courts DONT have the final say about things WE THE PEOPLE DO. wake up america its time to change all our state laws to make these idiots accopuntable to us. jail for all these traitors!
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 8:08amThe thing is that the Republicans who are holding town halls this week – and who voted for this budget in the House – are also running away from the Ryan budget in their own district’s Town Halls. One declares that what what he voted for wasn‘t the REAL budget but simply a ’road map’; another tells an attendee to ‘Shut-up and sit down’ when that constituent was critical of the budget vote. There are many clips from this week’s Town Halls – which have already been aired in public – and probably more to come. Even Ryan himself was booed at his own Town Hall. Go figure!!
Remembering back to the TeaParty disruptions at the Democratic Town Halls in 2009, I see that the tables have turned and it is no longer the ‘bussed in’ Tea Party Express types who are questioning the Congress-people. It is THEIR OWN constituents.
That tells me that folks are becoming more educated about what is going on in DC.
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 8:31amHow many SENIORS on this site really want their Social Security payments to be cut, changed or delayed??
How many seniors on this site want to see their Medicare disassembled so that they have to look in the private market for policies they can afford as their medical needs become greater as they age – only to find that that insurance policy DOES NOT cover their needs??
How many poor or needy folks on this site want to see the Jan Brewer type of Medicaid adjustments enacted?? That is the one where NO ONE on Medicaid can be eligible for transplants or critical care?? Talk about Death Panels!!
Does anyone on this site want to see these changes for their own parents or grandparents – or for themselves as they age????
Does anyone here agree that their children’s education is so UNIMPORTANT that public school funding should be cut by 25% and class sizes grow to 60 or more?? And do you agree that graduates should NOT have the opportunity of attending college??
Does anyone here actually believe that oil company’s and big business tax loopholes should be made permanent – so that the Exxon/Mobiles and the GEs of this country pay NO taxes?? Just a couple of weeks ago this site was full of those who were objecting to the ZERO taxes paid by GE!
How many people in the area of Tennessee where that massive ‘sludge spill’ (of a year or so ago) that poisoned the drinking water are happy to see that same company get away with more devastation??
Does anyone here welcome the taxes for the very wealthy further reduced while the above programs are cut for children, the elderly, the needy and the ill?
If your answer to any of these questions is a resounding YES, then go ahead and SUPPORT the Ryan Budget.
Thank you Senator Collins!
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 8:47amYou can always count on Susan Collins to be the turd in the punch-bowl. She really needs to go in the next primary.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 9:16amit’s time to have the candidates sign contracts. they deviate from the conservative contract, they have to resign and someone else, a conservative ,gets a shot at the job.
Report Post »FansLogonDOTcom
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:11amI’ve had enough of her and other RINOs like her. Sitting on the fence on every major issue and then voting with the radical Leftists almost every time. Enough!
Obviously, we still have a lot of work to do.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:11amjzs
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:52pm
Sorry guys, you’re a lot more of this. Adults are are taking back the asylum from the inmates. The inmates served their purpose in the last election, but now smart people are trying to steer the ship away from the fringe, a fringe that leads to defeat in the next election.
Jan Brewer vetoed a birther bill and a gun bill. Republicans are trying to marginalize Trump (not Democrats, they love Trump and his campaign). Bachman caved on the birther issue. Romney is being smart by staying out of the news and avoid association with the loony stuff.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but some smart people somewhere are telling Republicans to stop trying to appeal to the fringe and start trying to appeal to the moderates and independents. You guys hate it I’m sure. But it worries me as a Democrat to think that someone or some group, actually understands that the fringe isn’t going to decide the next election.
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hey communist – wanna make a bet on that? sure Mitt sits out, he is the progressives best bet and hope for the Republican nomination, may you twist in the wind.
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:18amBoth senators from Maine are actually LIBERAL democRATS!
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:23amgood ol’ turnip nose…
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independentvoteril
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:31amMy cousin is from MAINE I KNOW he’s pissed..
Report Post »Strictlybusiness
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:50amSHE IS AS WORTHLESS AS THE DAY IS LONG ! ! ! She is and ALWAYS HAS BEEN AN liberal plant in the Republican party !!! THIS WOMAN AND SNOW BUT THIS WOMAN MORE SO, JUST MAKES ME SICK – What a completely disgusting individual……….
Report Post »Strictlybusiness
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 10:55am@ Sgt.Crust
SAFE TO SAY NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK ON THE BLAZE – So Shut up stupid…..
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:10amGotta Love You Guys !! Yea, Just Keep spending.. F*#King Idiots..
Report Post »obummer, really like the the $5.00 Gas ! Food Prices Too, nice Touch!!
You are right Though ! everyone has to sacrifice.. How was the Party in
CA ?? You are lining your pockets with Campaign $$$$$, Flying cross
country on our Dime, Looks like we are the ones doing the sacrificing…..
tifosa
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:22amCollins is supposed to represent HER CONSTITUENTS, as they ALL are, NOT toe an ideological line.
Report Post »YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:36amMake sure when you have a chance to donate to Jim Demint or to Heritage or to anyone willing to unseat these RHINOS, that you give generously and give often. (skip the GOP) I have made it a regular part of my budget to give to anyone who is willing to work hard defeat these people. You can think of it this way, you can give now until it hurts, investing in a bright and free future for your kids and grandkids, or you can put it in a savings account, 401k, or other investment, and watch as Tim Geitner and Ben Bernake inflate the money supply so much that you will be paying $45.00 for a loaf of bread soon. Think it can’t happen? That’s what you used to say about $5.00 per gallon gasoline too. Believe it!
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:42amI hope everyone is making a list and checking it twice come November elections, or whenever this woman and others like her, are up for re-election. We should all be making these lists and sharing them with our neighbors, friends, and family. I know I am. DO NOT RELY ON MEMORY. Keep a notebook of these things and share them with your Tea Party people and others. This woman must not understand that her days are NOW numbered. She is now a marked woman for retirement.
Report Post »BARBBILL
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:45amThere is a Twilight Zone show where 12 yearolds take a government test and the parents are called with the results. The call comes in and they are told “Your son has scored an I.Q. above the government limit. How do you want to dispose of the body?. ” I guess those who score below the government limit are allowed to run for Congress and the Presidency!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:53amWell-said VERYSENIORCITIZEN! There’s been a wake-up call that appears to have absolutely SHRUNK the numbers of teapartyers from thousands last year to double-digits or hundreds this year in SEVERAL locations: CA, CO, CT, IA, IL, IN, OK, MA, MI, MN, PA are the ones I’ve seen the actual numbers for.
Report Post »gwinfrey
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:36pmNote to RULER4YOU:………..Neither Snowe nor Collins are TEA Party affiliates. They represent the worst of the worst, useful idiots in the guise of conservatives. Wake up Main! It is definitely way past time for Snow(e) removal! Take Collins with her. Heck, don’t wait…..RECALL them NOW!
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 12:56pm“There ought to be one day– just one– when there is open season on senators.”–Will Rogers
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:12pm@VERY SENIOR CITIZEN,
I said YES!
I support the Ryan budget. I especially like the 25% cut to Public Education. Do you REALLY believe that all that Federal money trickles down to the students?!
What budget plan do you support? President Dunham’s?! He DOESN’T have one!
The ONLY Thank You I would EVER give to Senator Susan Collins is if she announced her retirement from the U.S. Senate effective a.s.a.p..
Report Post »BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:37pmShe must be thinking ……….I’m sitting with the president. I’m sitting with the president.
“Ohhh…yes sir I understand what you need of me.
Whatever you need sir.”
I’m sitting with the president… I’m sitting with the president
Report Post »How cool am I !!!
Jim in Houston
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:55pmStupid woman has always been a democRat in Republican clothing. Kick her out of the party!
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:08pmI no longer support either Snowe or Collins. They both need to be voted out…..ASAP!!!!
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:33pmIf anyone primaries her I’m donating! The fact is if you don‘t balance the budget you can’t call cuts deficit reduction. You’re not reducing anything, you are still adding to it. ANYONE who calls it deficit reduction is a LIAR. The Ryan budget doesn’t even balance the budget. It’s not enough. Susan and her liberal friends are stealing from our children. This is child abuse, she is a child abuser. At what point do we say enough is enough and you folks in Washington are going to jail? It should be a crime for congress to spend more than they have. What I say is, get a rope. Because that‘s what it’s coming to. Look at the Middle East, that‘s going to be America in a few years if these crooks aren’t voted out of office.
Report Post »DJR
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:41pmShe’s a democrat in denial
Report Post »JGP
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 2:50pm@JZS
Preserving the government set up by the wisdom of the framers of the constitution, wanting a federal government limited to the powers enumerated by the constitution that they SWORE to uphold is, according to you, fringe thought.
Placing faith in such a massively ineffective, corrupt den of thieves that will never reform this federal government because it would mean reliquishing power is, according to you, smart. Do you really believe that? Are the only smart people in Washington? Like the one’s who think islands can capsize? The lunar rover is on Mars? That think there are 57 states? You‘ll find those genius’ in both parties. They are smart only by means of amassing money and power through coercion by taxation and donations (favors) and not through creation of wealth and productivity. In other words a job that produces something.
The birther issue is not an issue as demonstrated by Brewer. It’s only an issue kept alive by pundits as a political tool.
Remarks as the ones you make truly show that you don’t honestly think independently. I try not to get into any name calling but you are duped (as I once was) or are a tool, willingly so or not. Your fooling yourself JZS. Your life and everbody elses life wouldn’t suddenly go into the crapper if you had to take up more responsibility on the personal, local and state level. Placing your faith in any political system that only seeks to enrich themselves and create dependency for future votes is foolish. Freedom: the maximum absence of coercion. It works for all people.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 5:23pmNothing sends a thrill up the leg of a politician like the thrill of their own power.
Report Post »Tiny280
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 8:19pmThat is what happens when a state’s Republican party leadership is thoroughly co-opted by the Socialists. Maine voters haven’t had any real choice for Senator in several decades; they are given only the choice between Lib-Original and Lib-Light. Some choice.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:39pmHey Billy. Wait, my sould isn’t vacant. How dare you? My soul is okay.
As far as the word “marxism”, is that different from “communism?” Can you explain the difference to me, I’ve been confused about that. Communism is an economic system (which has always failed by the way), but is Marxism the same as that? Or are you you just using that word as an insult? That’s what I believe. Or maybe you will give us an definition here (hint: use the web).
You say the word “Marxism” but you couldn’t define in a way that would satisfy a high school teacher probably. Maybe you can prove me wrong. You’ve got time, and you’ve got the web. I’m not even going to talk about something a university political science professor would require as a satsifactory answer because, you know, that’s college stuff.
So when you says my posts “reek of marxism” perhaps you can give me your definition of “marxism”. Seriously Billy, I think you’re wrong about me be a “marxist.” But I’m sure you can explain why I am. Remember the Blaze is watching you!
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 12:50pm@ VerySeniorCitizen…………………………………………………………………….. Awwww, your Suzy Collin’s grandmother, aren’t you. Come on admit it, we won’t call you names, just because you stick up for her and the tripe she spews from her commie mouth. We just have a different opinion of her than you and our opinion is that she is a traitor to this country and needs to be removed from her office so can’t do anymore damage to our country! Oh, good luck at BINGO.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 2:58pmR after the name in the majority of the NE states is the same as the old Democratic Party before it became Progressive. Just like Maine, look at Scott Brown and Mitt Romney in MA. At least Bernie Sanders (VT) is honest enough to say that he is a Socialist.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 3:04pmHey JZS,
Lemmee see if I remember. The last time you responded to me, you said that you would not ever respond to me again, unless I said something that made sense.
Lets ponder that for a minute.
OK, what do I know about marx. I think he and his brothers made some funny movies a while back.
Sorry my friend, I will not be goaded. You are the interloper here. I owe you no answers. It is you who are trying to make your case. Explain away. Never mind you already do that daily, but to no avail.
Blazers are not watching me, they are watching you now. And that is precisely what you do not want.
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 11:52pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded
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jackrorabbit
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 8:48amThis is a non-story. Nothing new here. We all know that until the real conservatives have a “slam dunk” caucus, nothing in DC will change.
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