Comments about: Collins: 'Dire crisis' spurred stimulus support
AUGUSTA -- Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Wednesday that "a truly dire crisis" with the national economy prompted...
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sadistic of Augusta, ME
Feb 20, 2009 8:05 PM
Sucking up like Snowe? Good luck. It's not working.

Whatever! I wonder who our new Senators will be next term.

Sorry for the late post. I was out working long hours yesturday to support someone else.report abuse
Skip Ernst of Sidney, ME
Feb 19, 2009 7:06 PM
Well, reading all these comments was interesting. Not because many of them were actually helpful, but because of their general themes. As I read them I kept a tally of the general themes. Some crossed a few boundaries.

Comment Tally:
Anti Republican: 5
Anti Democrat: 8
Anti both parties: 3
Anti other commenter: 3
Anti Susan Collins: 8
Pro Susan Collins: 2
Off topic: 1
Actually possibly helpful: 5

So that makes 8 out of 31 comments that did not snipe other people and only 5 of which I found to offer any sort of useful insight (your mileage may vary). I bet we can do better than %16 folks.report abuse
UncleWalt of Augusta, ME
Feb 19, 2009 6:28 PM
So, let’s recap today’s vocabulary lesson, shall we? Here are a few of the choice words we learned here today. (I can’t list them all because some of them violate the KJ’s reader-comment guidelines.) Ready? There will be a quiz later, so pay attention: Dolt. Ultracommunist. Liars. Thugs. Radicals. Knuckleheads. Life losers. (Whatever that means.)

Ah yes. Disagreeing without being disagreeable. What we do best here in reader-comment land.report abuse
country life of augusta, ME
Feb 19, 2009 4:17 PM
This state would save alot of monies if they cracked down on the welfare system! I have heard wicked stories of abuse!!!!!!!!! I am fed up with it.report abuse

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