Maine continues to drag itself (and the country) down by (re)electing Snowe and Collins.
...why?
They both fit their state well.
Fit in terms of what? Definitely not the interests of the majority of the people living there.
Stop being a stupid Hack. Both of them fit Maine and how the people want their Senators to vote. Just because they may not vote like you want doesn't mean jack crap.
Butthurt conservative detected.
Congress' approval rating is in single digits because everybody loves the legislation coming out of the R and neoliberal D (hello DLC/Blue Dogs) controlled House and the 60-vote-required-for-anything Senate due to Republican filibusters (of which the Maine twins vote lock in step to support) right?
A huge problem this country has is people voting against their interests and Maine is no exception. Hell I was just at a friend's wedding on the weekend and I was unfortunate enough to sit next to his dumbass Grandma. This 72-year-old lady makes $13k a year (all from Social Security), is on food stamps, and votes Republican because "the Democrats don't represent 'Christian values' (read authoritarian social conservatism)". God damn
How far are we going to have to fall before people start thinking? Unbelievable.
So people who don't vote the way you think they should vote are dumbasses? Great attitude there.
These people don't approve of Republican economic policies and yet they vote Republican over social issues or some need to culturally identify as being a "conservative" or a "Christian"? Who does that? Yes it is my opinion that people who do that are dumbasses.
It's been working great for the last three decades right? Fortunately they won't be able to do it for another three but, god help them, they will die trying.
But you said that the issue is people voting against their interests. You would say that I "vote against my interests"; am I a dumbass?
What? I was talking to her and she doesn't support privatizing Social Security or Medicare and she favors raising taxes on rich people/big corporations. So I asked her why she would vote Republican as they want to do the opposite of what she wants economically and that's when she started babbling about religion and saying Republicans aren't like that.
Maybe I should say voting against their economic interests? But if her interests really are voting against all her economic needs and desires to enforce her "morality" on the rest of society then she still gets graded as a dumbass in my book.
I actually did get the implication of economic interests, & the example is less cogent given that she actually does support left-wing economic policies. However, I find it highly presumptuous to brand someone a dumbass because they don't think it right to demand a larger proportion of another's paycheck.
