Why would a newspaper scrupulously avoid criticizing elected officials in its editorials--even when criticism follows logically from its editorial position?Is it about celebrity worship? Back-scratching? Timidity?
Are there more positions on Sen. Collins' staff opening up soon?
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Sen. Collins votes against even debating the Senate health care reform bill, which looks an awful lot like the Obama plan that she termed, "pretty good" during the 2008 campaign.In a statement, Collins calls the bill "divisive" and "partisan."
Divisive and partisan, indeed.
Gerald has a couple questions about Sen. Collins' priorities, and those of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT).' [...]
When you boil it down, Sen. Collins seems to be saying that she voted against Part D before she voted for it.[...]
But that' [...]
And remember, HHS Secretary Sebelius hadn't even been confirmed when Collins stripped $780 million in pandemic flu preparedness funding from the stimulus bill.
If Collins knows a way to speed the production and distribution of vaccine, she ought' [...]
The article, full of glowing praise from Collins fans, includes not a single skeptical-sounding clause about the junior senator; no critics are [...]
Scozzafava is opposed by pretty much the entire slate of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls, including former Gov.' [...]
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Watch Sen. Collins avoid three questions in a row:[...]
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We haven't run this chart in a while. UPDATE: Incidentally, "Health"--just below "Finance/Insur/RealEst"--includes
The truth is that, for obscure and complicated reasons, many Washington-based reporters are desperate to believe that Collins is above the fray. And so they'll do somersaults to support that narrative, even in the [...]
But she's never come anywhere near articulating a plan for how to get there. (Except that she wants lots of hearings.) And she opposes all five health care reform proposals currently making their' [...]
Why is she fear mongering--and parroting unsubstantiated insurance industry claims--instead of explaining how she proposes to improve the legislation?"Many individuals and families would be forced to pay more'" [...]
Sen. Collins' refusal to say much of anything about Dawn Johnsen's nomination is disappointing, if not surprising.It's a reminder that the junior senator is, at best, a selective supporter of the rule of law.
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Let's hope so.
I still think Sen. Collins is likely to oppose the health care reform legislation that comes [...]
They'd be a lot easier to [...]
In the middle of the most important domestic policy debate in two generations, with Mainers supporting the public health plan option she adamantly opposes by a 2-1 margin, Sen. Collins writes an Op-Ed......about the National Senior Games.
Amazing.
It's a more plausible criticism than her objection to the program's size. (Though an odd one given Collins' opposition to a public health plan alternative, which' [...]
But it's important not to get desensitized to the staggering hypocrisy of her behavior here.
Both articles focused on Afghanistan. Both included a list of the places Collins visited. And both stories left her stop on the the Greek island of Rhodes off the list.
I mean, "the non-partisan Lewin Group"? Canadians pouring into American hospitals?
What's next? A [...]
No real explanation, though, about how the Greek Island stop fit into the larger scheme of things. (And no word on whether she made it to the beach.)
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Sen. Collins has had some genuinely interesting and thoughtful things to say about her overseas trip. (Still waiting to hear about Rhodes, though.)To be clear: The issue here isn't congressional travel. The issue, given Collins' rhetoric on health care reform, is the timing.
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If you're patient, at 41:59 you'll see Sen. Collins talk about her desire for Congress to set aside two [...]
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And yet somehow I developed the impression that slowing down health care reform was necessary precisely so that Sen. Collins and her fellow "moderates" could spend the recess doing the serious work required to reach a compromise. Silly me.Anyway, she's blogging from the road.
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With the decibel level rising, Collins has remained silent on the issue, even as [...]
Sen. Susan Collins:"I'm always surprised when I hear some of my colleagues describe the public plan as being needed to keep the insurance companies honest...when insurance carriers are regulated in every state in the nation," Collins said. "They are a heavily regulated industry."' [...] After all, "cash for clunkers" is one of the fleetingly rare instances when' [...]
First, all three papers had the temerity to criticize Maine's senators--apparently prompting Naomi Schalit, opinion editor at the KJ and Morning Sentinel, to resign.
And now, Greg Kesich, an editorial writer at PPH, is skewering' [...]
It's a good thing Sen. Collins doesn't do town hall meetings.' [...]
Collins Watch readers may remember Schalit for her willingness, repeatedly during the recent Senate race, to publish pro-Collins letters penned by Maine GOP pols and bigwigs--without [...]
Today's chatty lead editorial--cursory and disjointed in way that reminds me of, say, a Richard Connor column--basically tells Sen. Snowe and Sen. Collins to block President [...]
The junior senator's version, with tighter standards, would have been better for the environment. And given the level of demand, it seems pretty clear that [...]
--Does Sen. Collins support raising taxes on the super-rich to pay for expanded coverage?
--Would she vote to block an up-or-down vote on a bill that created a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers?
--Does she support taxing employer-based health care benefits if that's what it takes to [...]
Here's some raw video from Saturday's rally in Portland for fast action on health care reform:This eight months after the junior senator told voters during her recent campaign that, "I actually think [Obama's] plan is pretty good."
Of course, no one' [...]
Sen. Collins, on the other hand, was invited to see the [...]
It seems that $53 million is slated for renovations of a federal building in Bangor that houses (among other things) offices for Sen. Collins--and soon Sen. Snowe. The building was' [...]
That's what Jeannine Guttman said in 2000 when an interviewer with the American Society of News Editors asked her what she worried about the most.
You can't make this stuff up.
UPDATE: Even more:The press is the watchdog, providing citizens with a lens on' [...]
She never runs profiles of the candidates, and even allows the publication of a Collins endorsement [...]
Why is Sen. Collins stalling confirmation of the administration's nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel? Is it because the nominee, Dawn Johnsen, is willing to call out illegal torture and the lawyers who abetted it?Because Johnsen is unambiguously pro-choice?
Something else?
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But I'm curious about The Times' claim that there's a groundswell of interest in the (lopsided) vote.
People who still don't understand that financial institutions call the shots in Washington--and with the' [...]
Collins, you'll remember, showed extreme deference to President Bush when it came to presidential appointments. She even helped form a group tasked with preventing the filibustering of [...]
And yet when it comes to the fate of Dawn Johnsen, President Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, the junior senator's lips' [...]
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