What An Embarrassment For Maine

The Stimulus bill, as of 10:00 pm is not even available to be read by Congress, yet the Democrats still insist on voting on it tomorrow. Almost 800 pages, none of them will have read it, let alone have a chance to discuss it. They want to rush it through because they are deathly afraid how the folks will react if we get a chance to see it. That is not representation. That is tyranny.

And Pelosi and Reid have slipped right back in a lot of the pork that Collins, Snowe and Specter had them take out! In fact, Reid even added a last-minute earmark of his own - 8 billion for a high-speed railroad from his hometown Las Vegas to Los Angeles - so he doesn't have to fly and put up with the long waits and TSA searches at the airport. And Pelosi slipped in a 50 million dollar earmark of her own, to save a species of mouse that lives in her district. I am not kidding. She's not saving jobs - she's saving vermin that spreads disease.

Obama had promised to veto any bill with earmarks. But he won't.

Worse, from our standpoint here in Maine, is how our Senators have been a complete and sorry embarrassment. First, they turn on their party, under the guise of making a "better bill". The bill they helped craft was barely better at all. But they told the Democrats that they will only support it if the bill is not changed in conference, or if the pork was put back in.

Well, the pork was put back in. And according to several Senators, including Lindsey Graham, it seems that the three stooges - Collins, Snowe and Specter - will STILL vote for the bill, anyway, without even reading it.

In other words, it was all a farce. They never had any intention of opposing this bill. But in a sorry attempt to try and convince us, the voters, that they were only turning on their constituents for their own good, in order to get a better bill, that was only a smokescreen.

We, the People of Maine need honest people to represent us. It doesn't matter what party they belong to. What matters is that they have HONOR, INTEGRITY and treat us, their constituents, with RESPECT.

Neither Collins nor Snowe have any of those traits, and have no business representing the good folks of Maine. But the least they can do, if they are going to act like liberals, is to be honest and run as the Democrats they are. They are an insult to the entire Republican party.

Collins and Snowe - if you have an ounce of self-respect, or compassion for the people of Maine that you are supposed to represent, do not help get this bill passed. If it is to pass, let those who wroite it, own it. Let them take full responsibility for it. If you vote for it, don't offend us by coming back to Maine and bringing the stink of that bill with you.

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