Good riddance, Olympia Snowe.

[RandySF]

There she sat. Snug as a bug in a "moderate" rug with Joe Lieberman, throwing us the occasional bone to make us like her. But for all her complaints about how extreme her party got, she voted year after to elect Mitch McConnell Republican Leader and chief obstacle to getting anything done for the past three years. And more often than not, when it was time to uphold his filibusters, she voted to sustain them. So the only words she'll ever get from me next January is "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out."

[Hawkowl]

1. Fuck Olympia Snowe

Moderate my ass. More like radical enabler. She simply stood by and enabled the homicidal lunatics in her party. I wish her a long and utterly miserable life.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Sadly, I agree.

Sad, because I think when she was elected to Congress, she was a true moderate who voted to do the right thing more often than not. Since 2000, I've seen a person who seemed to become less and less independent and not willing to rock the boat with her Party. I had high hopes at one time that she'd jump to the Democratic Party, but she didn't and her record became indistinguishable from most of the Republican Party that we've seen some to power.

Same with Sue Collins. How pathetic this women is, voting with her Party to make women's right to reproductive healthcare secondary to the whims of whoever she might work for. She's absolutely useless.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Be nice, we need to pick up that seat

We can vent afterward

[Tx4obama]

4. Snowe was NOT all that bad. She voted MANY times with the Democrats ...

especially with the Democrats on women's issues.

In fact she was the only republican that voted with the Democrats yesterday (Thursday) against the Blunt amendment.

I know that most folks like to bash Snowe, Collins, Murkowski, and Brown - but they DO vote on the correct side of issues quite often.

[FLAprogressive]

5. Recently she had become more right-wing and all of her blabber about how it's "both parties" fault

stinks of DC conventional wisdom.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. I agree

I don't know what her record was like before 2009 but, aside from the stimulus vote, most of her votes went to support the cause of creating obstructionism and dysfunction in the US Senate and her "moderation" and "independence" have largely been a joke, particularly when it came to her hemming and hawing over health care reform, which she was willing to vote out of committee but unwilling to vote for in the end (despite essentially being the same bill) out of deference to the teabaggers. Her laments about the state of hyper-partisanship and gridlock (confined almost exclusively to the Republican side of the aisle) seem particularly stupid and/or hypocritical given that she supported the near-permanent state of filibuster that the Republicans have put on the Senate since 2009. Good riddance.
*ugh*

[COLGATE4]

7. K&R