Why do the two Maine Senators act more like Democrats then Democrats?

[Bluebear]

And how can we get them to pull a Jeffords? :)

[StClone]

1. Act is the right word

On critical votes these "moderates" mostly vote with the Right.

[mitchum]

8. Absolutely!

[saltpoint]

2. I agree with you, Bluebear -- they are distinct from most of the rest

of their GOP colleagues.

I was thinking in terms of that evolutional chart where modern, humankind is the most recent upright primate and the early-on apes were slinging around in trees... i'd put Maine's 2 senators mujch, much further along that evolutional chart than someone like Rick Santorum or Jeff Sessions.

I listened to a few exceprt of Sessions' address on Pryor's nomination and I thought I was listening to an antebellum appeal to secede from the Union. What a goddamned moron.

Agree with your thought also that it would be dandy to get them to follow Jeffords' lead. If the balance of power were to come very close in the 2006 Senate -- and it might -- we could see a Collins/Snowe/Chaffee move to Independents, caucusing with the Democrats in exchange for committee assignments.

Nice post.

[Frances]

3. But how did the 2 Maine senators vote

on Judges Brown and Pryor?

[saltpoint]

4. Point taken, Frances, but not the point at hand.

In times past the Republican party was not a pack of rabid anti-Constitution Christian fundamentalist assholes.

Collins and Snowe are from that older, more collaborative tradition and more closely fit that profile than the profile of most of their colleagues.

[Just Me]

9. "Rabid Republicans"! Perfect label for the RRW of the conservative party.

The radical right wing ARE rabid Republicans. They are the core of some of the worst anti-Americanism on earth: calling upon others to take down fellow Americans who fail to fall within their closed ranks.

[saltpoint]

12. Your phrase, Just Me -- "calling upon others to take down

fellow Americans who fail to fall within their closed ranks"

-- is a top-drawer description, if you ask me.

Bravo.

:toast:

[Bluebear]

11. The both voted no on Pryor

which led me to make this post!

[saltpoint]

13. Bluebear, sometimes I think that the world would be much more

agreeable if I controlled it.

:)

In the OFF CHANCE that I don't, I guess I have to admit that not even my favorite senators always vote the way I would hope them to.

I come to rely on other states' senators (which is why I like the more liberal Democrats and in some cases the more moderate Republicans -- as few as they are).

I don't personally know Judge Pryor, but thre was every indication that he was a throwback to the Old South. He sounds like bad news to me.

I like your vision about Collins and Snowe & I sure hope it comes to pass. That would be an awfully positive turn of events for U.S. politics.

[Pirate Smile]

5. They really don't when you look at their voting records. They are

generally rubber stamps for BushCo.

[jonnyblitz]

6. exactly. nt

[nickshepDEM]

7. They know if they move to far right...

They will get booted out of office.

[Roxy66]

10. I wish Snowe and Collins would switch to our side