Collins easily impressed by Dems

The Washington Post is lovin’ them some Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (the two Maine Senators who saved last week the Obama stimulus bill) this morning. They recount a phone call between VP Biden and Collins last year;

Just before Christmas, Susan Collins, a moderate Republican senator, was driving alone on that road, headed to her parents’ home near the Canadian border in the tiny town of Caribou, when her cellphone rang. It was Joseph R. Biden Jr., the soon-to-be vice president, calling to talk up the Obama administration’s economic stimulus plan.

The call kept getting cut off. Once. Twice. Three times. But Biden kept calling back.

“I was very impressed with his persistence,” Collins recalled in an interview.

So she voted for the stimulus bill because Biden impressed her with his ability to continually hit the redial button on his phone. Knowing Biden like I do, I’ll bet he had a staffer to punch the button for him. He’s a friggin’ genius, you know.

I guess Biden’s ability to redial the same number repeatedly was so impressive that Collins forgets that just a month before, she was reportedly angry at the Democrats for sending their Senators to Maine to campaign against her, after all she had done for them in the last eight years (From The Hill);

The tactics used by Democrats to secure at least 58 Senate seats may have damaged their chances of winning vital support from Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in key votes in the 111th Congress.

Collins told colleagues at a small Senate prayer breakfast meeting last week that she still felt lingering resentment toward Democratic senators who campaigned against her in Maine.

She confessed that she had “trouble forgiving colleagues” who traveled to Maine and told voters she was “a Bush clone and called into question her ethics,” said a senator who attended the meeting.

Collins’s lingering resentment could emerge as a snag for Democratic leaders who expect her to side with them on many important votes.

I guess the Democrats knew what they were doing – they knew that the spineless weasel Collins could never bring herself to vote against them no matter what they said about her.

Collins and her home-state colleague, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R), have voted with GOP Senate leaders less often than any other Republicans. They are the two Republicans whom Democrats are expected to court most often.

Before Congress adjourned, Collins voted with Democrats and against her own leaders to advance an emergency stimulus bill. She also recently voted with Democrats to quash a Republican filibuster of the defense authorization bill.

Yet her willingness to cross the aisle from time to time didn’t stop Democrats from lobbing attacks during her recent campaign for reelection. Collins received her hardest shots from Democratic Sens. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio).

She’s so freaking spineless, she’d rather stand up to her own party (who’ve supported her and keep returning her gutless ass to office) than the people who bend her over and stick it to her in her own state. Maybe we should call her repeatedly and see if she’s impressed with us.

* Washington, D.C. Office (202) 224-2523
* Augusta Office (207) 622-8414
* Bangor Office (207) 945-0417
* Biddeford Office (207) 283-1101
* Caribou Office (207) 493-7873
* Lewiston Office (207) 784-6969
* Portland Office (207) 780-3575

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* Augusta Office (207) 622-5884
* Bangor Office (207) 990-4604
* Biddeford Office (207) 283-4054
* Caribou Office (207) 493-7810
* Lewiston Office (207) 782-6475
* Portland Office (207) 828-0380

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