REPUBLICANS' HURT FEELINGS - Poor babies.

[Mass]

From the world of bizarro land.

I just wonder how they would feel if their name was Obama, Clinton, or Kerry (Murtha, Cleland, ... the list is too long). Eh darlings, what your colleagues attacked was your ideas and work as a senator, not your honor and honesty. That is what politics is all about.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

REPUBLICANS' HURT FEELINGS.... Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) apparently refused to speak to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) because McConnell's feelings were hurt. It seems the Democratic efforts to defeat McConnell's re-election bid had been deemed "overly aggressive."

Likewise, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) reportedly told colleagues at a Senate prayer breakfast last week that she feels "lingering resentment toward Democratic senators who campaigned against her." Collins reportedly confessed that that she had "trouble forgiving colleagues" who campaigned against her.

It marks an interest twist in the tension between the two parties -- now, it appears, Democrats are just too mean.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/for-collins-forgiveness-may-be-tough-2008-11-24.html

For Collins, forgiveness may be tough
By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 11/24/08 07:56 PM

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.
...

I suppose they will vote 99.9 % of the time with the GOP rather than 99.8 %. Come on, how can the media report that seriously?

[rurallib]

1. 'Spose Harry Reid will quit kissing McConnell's ass now?

More likely he'll really bend over backwards so Mitchy knows he is still loved.

[TwilightGardener]

2. This, from the party that comes right out and says Democrats hate America

and love losing wars. Poor widdle babies.

[BlueJazz]

3. I'm deeply touched.

[navarth]

4. yeah...I'm just overwhelmed with sympathy here

I'm sure Collins and McConnel were horrified by the ugly campaigning of their own party. Sure.

[Jennicut]

5. Rethugs love to dish it out but they can never handle taking it

Deep down, way down, they are sniveling crying little babies! Thank God we got some adults coming in like Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

[sufrommich]

6. Classic symptoms of a bully. nt

[TlalocW]

7. I'm glad we've won back Congress and the White House but...

for a short time at least, we need to act like republicans and make it clear we're in charge, and they need to play ball with us if they don't want to get shut out completely.

But I'm not holding my breath.

TlalocW

[mtnsnake]

8. Let 'em whine for the next 8 years and then some!

[mitchum]

9. Fuck 'em...suicide will help them get over their goddamn hurt feelings

put up or shut up, pigs

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Boo hoo, Susan! If you had kept your two term limit promise your feelings would be intact.

[madmom]

11. But they were right on board with what lieberman said about Obama.

[PlanetBev]

12. On Capitol Hill, Susan Collins is known as the "Dim Bulb of the Senate"

Any questions?

[NewJeffCT]

13. Didn't McConnell campaign vigorously against Tom Daschle?

In violation of an unwritten code in the Senate?

[blm]

16. Frist was there, too. They broke the etiquette back then and now dare to whine?

.

[NewJeffCT]

24. Yes, Frist was the one I was thinking of...

This is how I see them:

[northernlights]

14. poor Susan

:nopity: Guess I'm gonna have to give her a call whenever an important vote is coming up.

Painful as it could be to me personally, I hope that any Federal aid coming Maine's way is funneled through the governor's office.

[blm]

15. Remember all the GOP senators who went to SD to campaign against Majority Leader Daschle?

Do they not remember how they smeared Kerry with LIES and then both GOP and Dem senators treated Kerry like complete shit when he returned to the senate.

[TXDemGal]

17. Boo-effin'-hoo

As always, the pubbies can dish it out but they utterly fail at taking it like the men they claim to be. :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[mwb970]

18. Poor, poor widdle Mitchy McConnell.

Widdle Mitchy's feelings were hurt, and it is so UNFAIR!

Someone is sounding like a 4-year old. Talk about sore losers. Republicans, yuck.

[JNelson6563]

19. Sore losers

[Renew Deal]

20. I don't blame Susan Collins

Because if a Senator campaigned against her, he or she came from out of state to do it. McConnel needs to stop whining and understand he doesn't get a free ride. Was he so concerned when they decided to run against Daschle? I don't think so.

[JI7]

21. what's wrong with them coming from out of state to do it ?

that always happens.

[Renew Deal]

22. Nothing really

But I don't blame her for having hard feelings. I don't think this type of campaigning was common amongst sitting senators prior to what happened to Daschle. I'm sure Collins considers some of these people friends. Her comments seem more emotional than political.

[DailyGrind51]

23. The proverbial shoe is on the other foot and is starting to hurt, A LOT!

:nopity: