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March 10, 2021 at 11:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) fired back at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he pointedly said it was a big mistake to shrink the 2009 economic stimulus package in order to win her vote, NBC News reports.
Said Collins: I thought that Leader Schumers comments were bizarre.
Collins pointed out that she supported Barack Obamas $787 billion package: He voted for the same package that I did. So, for Chuck Schumer, who was intimately involved in the negotiations as the assistant leader, to somehow criticize me for taking the same position that he did, is simply bizarre. And I think it reflects regrettably his inability to accept the fact that despite pouring $100 million into defeating me, the people of Maine said no.
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Ocelot II
(115,829 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)So shut the fuck up. Mainers on the brink of ruin will not be thanking you.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)dalton99a
(81,569 posts)GPV
(72,381 posts)We often balance the Congress and the WH.
jorgevlorgan
(8,327 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Im am so over her trolling and concern.
Irish_Dem
(47,331 posts)Renew Deal
(81,870 posts)BootinUp
(47,182 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)She is useless
Yup
stopdiggin
(11,354 posts)and contorted statement -- is that we did spend a lot of money, to lose handily, in Maine. Pretty sad.
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The Magistrate
(95,253 posts)In the manner Sec. Seward did, after he stirred a storm by saying Postmaster Cameron would steal anything that wasn't nailed down but a red hot stove. He declared he had indeed spoken in error, for Cameron certainly would steal a red hot stove.
The fact is Collins postures as a moderate but votes straight christo-fascist maggot nine tenths of the time.
Good on Majority Leader Schumer for calling her out on it.
Zambero
(8,965 posts)Wonder which Senator once mumbled that absurd claim??