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" In which we award today&amp;#039;s King Canute Award to that famous pillar of Jell-O, Susan Collins of Maine, useless walking pile of abject irrelevance. &amp;quot;I voted against Obamacare and have repeatedly voted to repeal, reform, and replace it, but I disagree with the strategy of linking Obamacare with the continuing functioning of government-a strategy that cannot possibly work. Instead, I urge the President and congressional leaders to sit down immediately and negotiate at least a stopgap funding measure to avoid a disruption in many vital programs on which our citizens rely. I also call on the President to resume the budget discussions he had been having with those of us attempting to forge a long-term fiscal plan to address our unsustainable $17 trillion debt without resorting to constant brinkmanship and the threat of a government shutdown.&amp;quot;  Translation from the original weaselspeak: I voted against this thing so crazy people wouldn&amp;#039;t primary me, but the crazy people are running things down here anyway, and I would still like to play the part of &amp;quot;moderate Republican&amp;quot; for a little while longer. See? I&amp;#039;m still talking about The Deficit! Please leave me alone. And even besides that, can you think of a single person not named Elizabeth Warren that the monkeyhouse is less likely to listen to than Susan Collins? At least, if you&amp;#039;re going to be a senator from Maine, which most of the people in the House believe to be a part of Communist Canada, you should bump it with a trumpet. Collins&amp;#039;s colleague, Angus King, The Mustache Of Outrage, shows the way it&amp;#039;s done. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a scandal - those people are guilty of murder in my opinion,&amp;quot; King told Salon on Friday. &amp;quot;Some of those people they persuade are going to end up dying because they don&amp;#039;t have health insurance. For people who do that to other people in the name of some obscure political ideology is one of the grossest violations of our humanity I can think of. This absolutely drives me crazy.&amp;quot; I think Angus shouldn&amp;#039;t wait on one leg for that invitation to the Third Way holiday party. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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