Olympia Snowe
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Now the actions of three people who told their voters that they were Republicans have eliminated any hope that the GOP has for influence during the next two years. By making their own deals with the Obama administration and settling for cosmetic improvements in the so-called stimulus package, Sens. Collins, Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., have sold out their party, their state and their supporters.

Collins, Snowe and Specter had a chance to send a message to Obama that he had to deal with the Republican Party to avert a filibuster. They could have made it clear that genuine bipartisan cooperation was necessary to pass legislation. These three senators, pledged to cut taxes and oppose massive growth in federal spending, could have demanded a 2-to-1 ratio for tax cuts over spending, rather than the reverse, as Obama is succeeding in getting.

Instead, the three wimped out and caved in for peanuts from Obama. In doing so, they completely stripped their party of any leverage. There was no point in having gotten 41 votes if the three weakest links could sell the party out.

Specter, Snowe, Collins Are Benedict Arnolds
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:49 PM By: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
http://www.newsmax.com/morris/morris_benedict_arnold/2009/02/11/180849.html

Usually, Americans United for Change buys ads to lambaste Republicans for opposing issues backed by the liberal, union-supported issue advocacy group initially founded in 2005 to rally against President Bush's Social Security reform plan.

But when three Republicans crossed the aisle over the weekend to say they will support a compromise economic recovery plan opposed by every other Senate minority Republican, Americans United for Change bought up radio time urging voters to call and thank Sens. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter for "providing the leadership we need to get the job done."

"Senators Snowe and Collins have worked with President Obama and other senators to reach agreement on a plan that has support from a broad range of groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce and organized labor," says the new ad out in the senators' state of Maine Sunday. "Call Senators Snowe and Collins today at 202-224-3121. Thank them for their leadership and tell them to keep fighting for a plan to get our economy moving again."

Liberal Group Praises Crossover Republicans as Minority Leaders Balk at Partisanship
FOXNews.com Sunday, February 08, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/08/liberal-group-praises-crossover-republicans-minority-leaders-balk-partisanship/

Three liberal Republican senators — Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter — who pledged their support this weekend to President Barack Obama’s massive stimulus bill are drawing the wrath of many conservatives.

Specter, Snowe, Collins Anger GOP Base
Sunday, February 8, 2009 7:39 PM By: Tim Collie
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/republicans_stimulus/2009/02/08/179583.html

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Olympia Snowe on Wednesday became the second Republican to embrace a bill ordering troops out of Iraq as President Bush's national security adviser tried to stop defections from the White House war policy.

"Frankly, given the fact that the Iraqi government isn't prepared to change its own political direction, we should be prepared to change course with resepect to our strategy," Snowe told reporters Tuesday.

Sen. Olympia Snowe Joins Troop Withdrawal Bill
NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, July 11, 2007
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/7/11/115049.shtml