• Voted FOR a resolution  
    disapproving of the surge:
    Had Collins gotten her
    way, we would have
    surrendered to Al Qaeda,
    granting them victory in
    their most clearly defined
    battlefield against us (ACU-15).  
      
  • For an inside look at the
    importance of Iraq to Al
    Qaeda, please read the
    following field report, courtesy
    of Michael Totten and Colonel
    Mike Silverman: "Al Qaeda Lost"
  • For a poignant reminder of the
    hands into which Collins voted
    to leave the Iraqi people,
    please read the following post
    by Victor Davis Hanson:
    "Thyestean Feast."  .


  • Voted FOR Obama's 2009
    stimulus. Thanks to Collins,
    Snowe, and Specter, this
    abomination can  be called
    "bipartisan."


  • Voted FOR forcing the US.
    to comply with the Kyoto
    Treaty despite our never having
    ratified it (ACU-11).

  • Voted FOR a Democrat
    measure to make tax cuts
    harder to enact  (ACU-12).

  • Voted AGAINST a
    Republican measure to
    make spending increases
    harder to enact  (ACU-14).

  • Voted FOR formally
    admonishing the FCC for
    implementing a rule that
    allowed more freedom in
    broadcast ownership (ACU-
    11).  This admonishment, a thinly
    veiled attack on Fox News, is best
    remembered for Rupert Murdoch’s
    deadpan dismissal of Fritz Hollings
    during a senate hearing (Fallows).  Not
    surprisingly, Collins sided with
    Hollings.

  • Voted FOR a 2005 amend-
    ment to remove language
    in the budget that would
    have safeguarded tax cuts
    (ACU-13).

  • Voted FOR extending the
    “assault weapons” ban (i.
    e., ban on collectibles) (ACU-
    12).  For more info about this
    infringement on ownership rights and
    the truth about these weapons,
    please see the following by gun-
    rights advocate Alan Korwin: "New York
    Times Recognizes 10 Years of Errors."


  • Voted AGAINST school
    vouchers (ACU-9).

  • Voted FOR raising taxes
    $7.2 billion to expand
    “green energy” programs
    (ACU-14).  Just as an aside, these
    programs only cost  $4 billion. No
    word where the other 3.2 billion went  (
    WP-5).  

  • Voted AGAINST a Constitu-
    tional safeguard for Cam-
    paign-Finance Reform (s.
    27, roll call 59) According to the
    ACU, the amendment would have
    ensured “that if one of several
    specific provisions in the underlying
    bill, mainly the ban on soft money,
    disclosure requirements for issue-
    group advertising, and hard money
    limits, [were] found to be an
    unconstitutional infringement of the
    First Amendment, then the other
    provisions specified would also be
    invalid.

  • Voted AGAINST requiring
    unions to get permission
    from dues-paying
    members before spending
    those dues on political
    activities. The requirement also
    would have applied to corporations
    and their shareholders (ACU)

  • Voted AGAINST a cap on
    future discretionary
    spending to hold it at 2006 levels.
    She then repeated her opposition to
    spending controls the following year
    (see Item 3 above) (ACU-13).

  • Voted FOR raising CAFE
    standards (ACU-13). For a look at
    the link between higher CAFE
    standards and increased traffic
    fatalities, as well as the folly of the
    economic justifications for higher
    standards, see what Dennis Kneale
    has to say: "New CAFE" (CNBC-1)


    Voted AGAINST an amend-
    ment to better enforce
    immi-gration.  As the ACU
    explains, the amendment “would
    have increased funding for
    immigration and customs
    enforcement by about $200 million,
    added 5,760 detention beds, and
    permitted the hiring of more
    immigration enforcement personnel”
    (ACU-13).

  • Voted FOR Campaign
    Finance Reform, one of the
    greatest abridgments of free
    speech in our history (WP-6).
  1. Read what Brian Darling of the Heritage
    Foundation says about Campaign Finance
    Reform: "Campaign Capital; Repeal McCain-
    Feingold Law And Mandate Disclosure Instead."
  2. Hear what McCain himself says about it
    on The Don Imus Show: "John McCain Admits
    That McCain-Feingold Is Unconstitutional."
  3. Read what Doug Patton of Humanevents.
    com,  says about this criminalization of
    free speech: "McCain-Feingold Doing What Its
    Authors Intended."

  • Voted FOR a 2005 amend-
    ment that would have
    hiked taxes on the oil
    industry (ACU-13).

  • Voted AGAINST drilling for
    oil in ANWR in 2005 (ACU-13).

  • Voted FOR a 2008
    mortgage bailout scheme
    that, according to the ACU, “would
    further nationalize the mortgage
    industry, raise limits on some risky
    loans, and [add] another $4 billion
    grant program to be handed out by
    local governments” (ACU-16).

  • Voted FOR bailing out the
    auto industry (ACU-16). Four
    months later, our president was firing
    CEOs.  Either Susan Collins favors
    nationalizing industry, or she's too
    short-sighted to deserve our trust.
    Either way, she's bad for the G.O.P.

  • Voted FOR forcing the U.S.
    to withdraw from Iraq by
    June 2009.  Had the measure
    passed, it would have forced
    withdrawal by back-handedly allowing
    congress to micro-manage our
    troops and place untenable
    restrictions on their efforts (ACU-16).

  • Voted AGAINST strength-
    ening missile defense (ACU-
    16).

  • Voted FOR a 2006
    amnesty bill for illegal
    aliens. This precursor to the
    amnesty bill of 2007, as the ACU
    explains, was a bill "overhauling U.S.
    immigration laws and offering a path
    to citizenship for most illegal
    immigrants in the country." This bill
    was spun as a "guest worker
    program" (ACU-14).

  • Voted AGAINST a border
    fence that, according to the ACU,
    would have provided for "the
    construction of 370 miles of double-
    layered fencing and at least 461
    miles of vehicle barriers along the U.
    S.-Mexico border" (ACU-14).

  • Voted AGAINST ending
    the death tax (ACU-15).

  • Voted FOR a 2008
    measure that camouflaged
    a permanent tax hike on
    energy by hiding it in a one-year
    suspension of the Alternative
    Minimum Tax. In so doing, she gave
    the Democrats (and herself) cover
    for raising taxes (ACU-16).

  • Voted AGAINST a 2007
    measure allowing the
    state of Virginia to drill for
    oil off its own shores (ACU-15).

  • Voted FOR the Dems' 2007
    Energy Policy, which
    imposed draconian new
    regulations on the energy
    sector. As the ACU explains, these
    measures included "a rise in
    automobile mileage to 35 miles per
    gallon by 2020, a ban on the
    incandescent light bulb, new energy
    efficiency mandates for appliances,
    the use of 15 billion gallons of
    biofuels by 2015, and the taxpayer
    subsidy of new energy technologies"
    (ACU-15).   

  • Voted AGAINST a 2008
    measure allowing states
    to drill for oil off their own
    coasts and allowing oil
    exploration in ANWR (ACU-16).  
    For the record, Collins' vote came
    just as the U.S. neared the height of
    the 2008 gas crisis.

  • Voted AGAINST allowing
    greater oil exploration on
    the outer-continental shelf
    (ACU-16).  Once again, her vote came
    just as the country neared the height
    of the 2008 gas crisis (see above).

  • Voted FOR hiking taxes on
    energy companies to fund
    "green initiatives" (ACU-16).  
    Mysteriously, Collins refuses to fight
    high fuel prices by increasing fuel
    supplies; rather, she chooses to fight
    high fuel prices by taxing fuel.

  • Voted AGAINST 2008
    earmark reform that would
    have imposed a one-year
    moratorium on all pork-barrel
    earmarks.  After the moratorium
    expired, the reform would have
    continued to make these ear-marks
    more difficult to pass  (ACU-16).

  • Voted AGAINST Eminent
    Domain protections that,
    according to the ACU, "would have
    prohibited federal, state and local
    governments from using eminent
    domain to take farmland or grazing
    land and use it for parks, open space
    or similar purposes" (ACU-15).

  • Voted AGAINST undoing
    the '93 tax hike on Social
    Security benefits (ACU-16).

  • Voted AGAINST limiting
    2009 spending to $1 trillion
    (ACU-16).

  • Voted FOR imposing a cap
    on CO2 emissions in
    hopes of changing the
    climate (ACU-16). With a flair for
    short-sightedness usually reserved
    for democrats, Snowe voted for this
    economically devastating
    amendment (devastating, had it
    passed) in June of 2008, just as the
    economy's downhill slide was picking
    up speed.
  • For insight into how this kind of
    legislation cripples an economy, you can
    turn to Europe, where CO2 caps have
    already been tried. In his address to the
    British Institute of Energy Economics,
    former Energy Secretary Lord Howell of
    Guildford puts it clearly: "After the Credit
    Crunch Comes the Energy Crunch."
  • For info on the general silliness of  the
    global- warming debate, please see the
    following piece by Nigel Lawson, another
    former U.K. Energy Secretary:  "The REAL
    inconvenient truth: Zealotry over global warming
    could damage our Earth far more than climate
    change."

  • Voted FOR expanding the
    State Children’s Health
    Insurance Program
    (SCHIP) by $60 billion (ACU-
    15).  This program was created in
    1997 only to provide insurance to
    children from uninsured families who
    were narrowly above poverty.  But 10
    years later, the Dems moved to
    expand the program--and, as always,
    the devil was in the details.  Under
    threat of Bush veto, Collins chose to
    join force with the Democrats and do
    the following:
  • Re-define "children" to mean "21-
    year-old adults."  
  • Re-define "$80,000 income" to mean
    “just above poverty."  
  • Let some taxpayers pay for other
    taxpayers' insurance (even if the
    former make less than the latter
    and purchase their own insurance).
  1. Give incentives for states to
    “recruit” new enrollees and thus
    make this big program even bigger.
    (Carney-1)
    Every time you hear it said that "once
    Washington puts something into
    place, it's just going to keep getting
    bigger and bigger"—you can and
    should think of Susan Collins.
Sen. Susan Collins
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Collins: Election 2014

    "Collins has compiled a middle-of-the-Senate voting
    record; she has joined Democrats on issues including
    the 1999 tax cut, campaign finance regulation and the
    partial-birth abortion ban. She was one of the
    Republicans who called for cutting the 2003 Bush tax
    cut in half."


    --From the National Journal's Almanac of American Politics 2008, as
    adapted in The New York Times
MEMBER OF THE INFAMOUS
"GANG OF 14" (nuclear option)
AND
"GANG OF 20" (energy deal)

    "[Backing Obama's Stimulus] is hardly the first time the
    two have broken from their party; it has occurred
    regularly over the years on budget, health, tax and
    environmental policy. But now it comes as
    Republicans are much more vulnerable, holding just 41
    seats, and knowing that the loss of Ms. Collins and Ms.
    Snowe deprives them of what little power they retain to
    block Democratic legislation."

--Carl Huse, The New York Times