Kay in Maine, one of AMERICAblog's faves, wrote a post on her own blog, White Noise Insanity, this weekend lambasting Susan Collins. If anyone has any doubts about Susan, read this post. It's also cross-posted at Turn Maine Blue.
Last time Collins ran, in 2002, there really was no progressive blogosphere. The Maine press tend to fawn all over Collins. They buy her spin. Well, those days are over. Collins is going to be held accountable for enabling the Bush Administration.
Collins will claim that she is running on her record, but she's going to cherry pick the issues to make herself look moderate -- which she's not. Kay and the other Maine bloggers are going to make Collins own her entire record:
The only way we Mainers can sum up Susan Collins' character is to look at her voting record to find out what it is that makes her tick. Just in the past six years, we've learned:Collins support for the war and her failure to use any oversight authority while she chaired the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will dog her throughout the campaign.* She voted for the 2001/2005 tax cuts and voted for the 2003 $350 billion tax cut for the wealthy
* She supports repealing the estate tax
* She voted for the bankruptcy bill, voted against tax subsidies for the US jobs that go offshore
* She voted to allow lobbyists to make some gifts to the Congress
* She voted in favor of confirming Judge Samuel Alito knowing full well he is against Roe v. Wade
* She voted 'yes' on the flag burning Constitutional amendment
* She voted to authorize military force against the sovereign nation of Iraq
* She voted in favor of the Military Commissions Bill (pro-torture and not a lick of peace in it)
* She supports the Real ID Act and instead of fixing this Act to protect American’s privacy, she wants to move it ahead to 'forget about it until later'
* She voted in favor of diverting Homeland Security funds to low risk areas of America rather than to the high risk areas
* She refused to subpoena the White House after Katrina, even when she had the power to do so as Chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
* She had the NAACP investigated for speaking out against Bush back in 2004
Last week, Collins and Lieberman announced a new seating arrangement for that Committee. That's their great idea -- despite all the corruption, mismanagement, waste, fraud, abuse and criminal activity coming from the Bush Administration.
With Kay, Chris and Turn Maine Blue on her case, Susan Collins has no idea what she's in for this time around.
