how does susan collins, a republic in the minority party, say my way or no way

[spanone]

just heard her say if it comes back with 'wastful spending' it won't have her support.

moderate republicans rule....

[FLAprogressive]

1. Becase Harry Reid is completely ineffective

[BlooInBloo]

8. End of thread.

[Richard D]

2. The real question is . . .

. . . why are the democrats kowtowing to these repukes. Bi-partisanship needs to die until the repukes get some brains.

[AlinPA]

3. That's code for she going to pull out and vote "No" at cloture.

[stray cat]

4. She has a right to a vote and if its close it could make the difference

[emulatorloo]

5. Go read "The Most Powerful Women in America" at fivethiryeight.com

The Most Powerful Women in America
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/most-powerful-women-in-america.html

"No, not Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, and Christina Romer. Instead, the most powerful women in America might be the club of four Republicans in the United States Senate: Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Snowe has voted with the Administration 91% of the time according to new Obama Support Score (OSS), the derivation of which I'll explain in a moment. This is, by some margin, the highest score for any Senate Republican and also higher than that of a handful of Democrats. Collins is second on the list, with an OSS of 72%, and Murkowski is fourth among Republicans at 70%. While Hutchison is further down the list, she is clearly angling to be a thought-leader in the GOP and is likely to be a wild card on certain issues, having voted with the administration, for instance, on SCHIP and the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."

(more at link)

[Muttocracy]

7. interesting. I've been thinking Snowe and Collins are pretty powerful now. nt

[bigtree]

6. it's the threat of filibuster

. . . she's going to vote for the thing, but she's pretending she mightn't to get attention, relying on her dubious role as the necessary crossover to ensure a positive cloture vote.