Susan Collins with Andrea Mitchell now - SHAMELESS!

[polichick]

Even after the news that the Christmas day bomber is talking, this woman has no shame about her attacks on the President.

I'm disgusted.

[jillan]

1. Watching and I just want to smack her.

What part of getting his parents to cooperate with his arrest doesn't she understand?????????????

[Nancy Waterman]

2. I had the same feeling about Collins

WHY DON'T REPUBLICANS BELIEVE IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM???
They endlessly rant about the Constitution, but when push comes to shove, they are terrified
that we might follow our own laws.

The underpants guy was given his Miranda Rights! How terrible!! </sarcasm>

[JohnnyBoots]

5. Kind of like being all Rah! Rah! USA USA! and then not wanting to

pay taxes....

[karynnj]

8. Exactly - it is not often that you have a parent of a terrorist so clearly trying to stop terrorism

Here, you had a father who had actually gone to the embassy and reported that his son had gone to Yemen and that he thought he was active with the terrorists. After the US failed to handle this properly - the embassy is part of the same State Department that issues visas - the father was still willing to help Americans.

I wonder if his continued cooperation was the result of praise for what he did from people like Senator John Kerry, who

In a Jan. 7 letter to the Nigerian ambassador to the United States obtained by Dow Jones, the senator wrote that Dr. Umaru Mutallab acted "in a heroic fashion by alerting U.S. authorities to his concerns about his son's whereabouts and activities, and by seeking to disrupt what he believed could have been a dangerous situation."

"We would like to afford (Mutallab) the opportunity to discuss his experience with his son and to provide his recommendations on the process by which he worked with U.S. authorities," Kerry wrote.

FOX NEWS didn't like this. Clearly he was on the same page as the Obama administration who, unlike Collins, knew what they had.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=162489&mesg_id=162489

The really aggravating thing here is that she is so blatantly playing politics.

[jenmito]

3. It's like her head is shaking with outrage as she rants on and on about how big a mistake she

STILL thinks it was, even after hearing all the facts that make her look stupid.

[flpoljunkie]

9. She was visibly upset. Did she or any Republicans speak out when Bush did the same?

No, they did not. It is nothing but a short term political strategy to be against anything and everything our president and our Democratic Congress does. They are without any shred of integrity.

[housewolf]

4. All this nonsense about "rights granted to American CITIZENS"...

What a bunch of distortion and nonsense! Our constitution grants right to ALL PEOPLE, it says NOTHING about citizens.

[tularetom]

6. I'll say it again - there is something not quite right about her

It isn't just that she's dumb, ALL senate republicans are dumb.

It just doesn't seem that all her synapses are firing on schedule.

[Jennicut]

7. Maybe she drank too much maple syrup?

I love Maine but cannot wait for the day when these two Rethug women retire. Maybe a Dem would have a shot up there.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. A Dem would absolutely have a shot up there.

After all, both congresscritters are Dems--progressive Chellie Pingree in the south and blue dog Mike Michaud in the north (we only have two districts). The south is very blue; the north is like a colder Deep South in places, but there are also pockets of blueness up there. I think something like 3/4ths of the population lives in the southernmost 3 counties, so population is certainly with the liberal part, but many of the fusty northerners are regular voters--getting the youth vote in the south can be very challenging. Portland itself is pretty insanely blue; question one was defeated something like 75-25 there in November.

Unfortunately, Mainers still buy the "moderate" BS and like to think that we're so effing maverick for continuing to send these tools to the hill. Perhaps by 2012 (end of Snowe's term) we'll actually shake them off. It helps when the Dem runs a good campaign, too--in 08, Tom Allen (a very good congresscritter from the southern district; I've met him personally) ran a crap campaign against Collins and, of course, lost. Get a good candidate up there, get Snowe/Collins to continue to act just toolish enough to piss off people, and the seat is most certainly in play.

[Jennicut]

11. In New England some like to think that maybe the Rethugs that are elected are not so bad.

But all Republicans are held to the party line and have to show allegiance to it somehow. We have made mistakes in CT too, just as Mass has and will learn....

[spiritual_gunfighter]

12. I was actually embarrassed for her

and I couldnt help but think about the President wanting to reach out to these people.

[polichick]

13. Hopefully the prez knows exactly who he's dealing with now. nt

[polichick]

14. She's been making the rounds all day - Tweety praised her...

...and said her position is catching on.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Not that I take everything that Tweety says at face value

"...and said her position is catching on."

Really?

:wtf:

[polichick]

16. I'm paraphrasing but yeah, he thought her arguments were good. :(

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. *Ugh* :(

I'd hate to think that the Repubs (and some Dems) are enjoying some success at making people wet their pants about trying terrorists in federal courts despite our long (and unremarkable) history of doing so. :banghead:

By creating Gitmo and allowing "enhanced interrogations", indefinite detention, etc., Bush/Cheney (with help from Faux News and other "corporate mediawhores") seemed to have caused an almost indelible paradigm shift in how people view terrorism and the *ability* of the criminal justice system to prosecute such individuals- despite there being no real evidence whatsoever to suggest that they can't handle such cases. It's stupid Repubs like Graham, Collins with help from Conservadems like Webb that are enabling this kind of mentality. I only hope and pray that Obama sticks to his guns and find a way to close Gitmo once and for all.