Sen Snowe: "Republicans Would Still Be In the Majority If Not For Bush's Failures"

[kpete]

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said she thinks her former GOP colleagues Sens. Mike DeWine (Ohio) and Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) lost reelection because of Bush’s unpopularity.

“It’s definitely because of the president and his policies, more from the standpoint of immovability and not being willing to adjust policies in response to real-time circumstances,” she said. “It wasn’t just the fact that things weren’t working well in Iraq, it was the president wasn’t willing to adjust his policy to recognize and acknowledge that.”

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Snowe said that during yesterday’s meeting, her thought was that Republicans would still be the majority if not for Bush’s failures.

“What’s disconcerting is that Republicans shouldn’t be in the position of having lost the majority,” she said, adding that because of the president Republicans had an “uphill battle” running for reelection in New England last year.

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-no-money-magnet-2007-06-13.html

[Virginia Dare]

1. She doesn't give sufficient credit to Delay and the culture of

corruption, nice try though.

[LynnTheDem]

2. And we'd all be multi-millionaires...

if not for the lack of money.

[lisa58]

3. No...

...it was congressional republican's undying devotion to bush's stupid policies.

Give credit where it's due!

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. umm...Senator Snowe how many times did you vote and/or rally

votes against this President and his policies? Hmmmm?

[Kolesar]

5. Senator Sherrod Brown blew Mike Dewine's doors off in a 14 point blow out

Mike Dewine was a lazy campaigner who never had to develop a message because he faced weak opponents in a weak Ohio Democratic Party. His pathetic, prowar, prolife message just could not carry him in a state of dour voters turned off by job loss and death in Iraq. The criminals in the GOP executive offices did not help Dewine, nor did that bat shit crazy guy the GOP ran for governor, Kenneth Blackwell.

[ima_sinnic]

6. so that makes 2 things I can thank the little turd for!

the fact that Rs are now pretty much neutered, and the Do Not Call List!

:woohoo:

[SteelPenguin]

7. WELL NO SHIT

You mean if Bush had pursued a course of foreign policy where the United States was the most beloved nation in the world, spending what we now spend on the war in Iraq, instead on relief efforts to Africa and other needy parts of the world...

Or if he had been in a command post overseeing the evacuation of New Orleans, and as soon as there was a problem, sending in the guard, and getting those people out of there on day 1 with the ready division of the Airborne? Saving lives, helping people...

Or if...

ah hell it's not worth going through them all. Needless to say that Bush and the Republican policies and failures are INDEED responsible for the Republicans losing the majority. Fucking DUH.

[Solly Mack]

8. uh.. and who rubber-stamped those failures?

[Xipe Totec]

9. Nice try

But Bush is just the embodiment of the Republican party's failed philosophy.

It's the Republican party that needs to be held accountable and pay for this miserable failure.

[Marr]

10. Bush wouldn't have been able to fail so spectactularly without his rubber stamp Congress.

They were too busy helping Bush set up this Politburo-style government and stuffing money into their pockets. To act like it was all Bush is ludicrous.

[n2doc]

11. And Gore would be president if the votes had been counted accurately

Republicans shouldn't be in the postition of having to think about Shrub AT ALL.

[partylessinOhio]

12. Well, Miss Condescending, you are a bit late in your assessment

of the situation. StuffIT!

:thumbsdown:

[KharmaTrain]

13. Keep Hanging Tough With Joementum, Limpy and See What Happens

Just watch what is gonna happen to your hivemate, Susie, next year if she takes Joe around the state. Forget about much help from the RNC or the very lame RSCC...they're all but disintegrated under the greed and hubris of Rove. Now with the Rove machine in shambles and more worried about raising defense funds than campaign ones, the big money gravy train is slowing down and there are a lot of nervous, vulnerable "moderate" Repugnicans out there.

The "moderate" wing of the Repugnican party is going the way of the Repugnican Black Caucus and the Log Cabin Repugnicans...into total obsolecence as whomever wins the Preidential nomination next year will do it by all but becoming a flying monkey and move the party into total revolt...as the fundies and xenophobes will jump to a third party and the "moderates" will be left to hang alone even further.

Snowe can attempt to run from this regime, but she voted with them more than against it and has blood on her hands. She just can't issue a press release and become some kind of "independent".

[ComerPerro]

14. wow, so what she is saying is, if Repigs were competent, they'd be in total power still

and just wondering, what did they accomplish with their unquestioned power?

[shadowknows69]

15. Well here's a thought then Olympia

get your fellow rethugs to help us IMPEACH THE IDIOT!! Up to you. It's your party. We won't mind having the majority for the next 20 years but it's up to you.

[BootinUp]

16. Of course the repuke congress has zero responsibility.

:sarcasm:

[Nite Owl]

17. The Republican Rubber Stamp

Congress had nothing to do with it? She is part of the enabling.

[AndyA]

18. Not just Bush's failures.

DeLay, Cunningham, Ney, Abramoff, Libby, Foley, the Iraq war, etc.

It's not just Bush. It's the party and what it stands for. It says one thing, but does another.

[Bucky]

19. A Republican blaming someone else for her troubles? I'm shocked!

Shocked, I tell you.