Sen. Snowe: GOP is ‘the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich.’
Sen. Snowe: GOP is ‘the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich.’
In a new Time article on the state of the Republican Party, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) lamented the GOP’s exclusion of groups like minorities and environmentalists. “Ideological purity is not the ticket to the promised land,” she said, echoing comments her fellow Maine senator Susan Collins (R) made last week. She also complained that, “to the average American,” the GOP is just the party of “Big Oil and the rich“:
Snowe recalls that when she proposed fiscally conservative “triggers” to limit Bush’s tax cuts in case of deficits, she was attacked by fellow Republicans. “I don’t know when willy-nilly tax cuts became the essence of who we are,” she says. “To the average American who’s struggling, we’re in some other stratosphere. We’re the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich.”
Of course, Americans are right to view the GOP as the party of Big Oil, which gave nearly $20 million to the Republican party apparatus during the last election cycle. The securities and investments industry — big banks — donated more than $54 million to the GOP.
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Yes, I’d say that’s about right.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:50 pmdon’t forget the easily fooled!!! the party of big oil, big business, and the easily fooled
May 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pmWe can expect limpdick to tell snowe to just leave the repug party.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pmTP, I know trolls complain about your headlines all the time, but every once in a while they have a point. This is one such time.
Just from reading the article, Sen. Snowe was not presenting her own assessment, as the headline implies. She was describing the perspective of the average American.
Please try to be better than this.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:54 pmSnowe looks as if she’s grown weary of (or has recognized the futility of) bailing water, and is positioning herself to abandon ship.
I know there are moderate Republicans who would like to save their party from the rabid right, but each day it appears to be more and more of a lost cause. Specter finally bolted when it appeared his party wasn’t going to support him for re-election. But he doesn’t really fit as a Democrat. Snowe and Collins probably wouldn’t, either. So will moderates disappear altogether?
May 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pmUh-oh…here come the Rushmaniacs, about to dump on the good senator from Maine…
Then again, she could pull a Specter and join the dems, so that when Sen.-elect Franken is finally seated they’d have 61…
May 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pmLet us not forget the corporate Democrats, who also happily defend corporate greed in the health care field.
O/T: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have expressed their “regrets” over their murders of more than one hundred Afghani civilians in the US bombings in Afghanistan. They need to stop committing war crimes in Afghanistan now. They need to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan now.
It is amazing to me how many of the so-called “progressive” blogs just don’t want to talk about ongoing US war crimes in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, now that the Obama administration is committing them…
May 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pmI agree with ralph. TP, can you fix this headline? Snowe is talking about the perception of the party from the avergae American, not from the perspective of the GOP’s members itself. Let’s not stoop to the level of people who misconstrue words for a living.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pmLet’s start the “countdown” till she declares her defection fron GOP…tick. tick, tick.
You know Limpaugh will be leading the call!
May 7th, 2009 at 1:56 pmFrom the “listening tour” Chairman Steele said “to the average American,” the GOP is just the party of “Big Oil and the rich“ and he will be promoting the idea to change American politics from ‘one person, one vote’ to ‘one dollar, one vote.’
May 7th, 2009 at 1:57 pmThe entire country is starting to see the GOP for what it really is: A thugish cult devoted to racial and religous purity – to the exclusion of all else, sorta like the Taliban and Al Quaida. America now has its own form of institutional bigotry – it is the GOP. Sadly, some of our trolls still don’t get it.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:00 pmThat’s more truth in one interview than from the entire GOP over the last 8 years combined.
Kudos to Sen. Snowe for having the integrity to speak the truth.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:01 pmOval12345678 @7, you are correct!
Here’s yet another perfect thread to post my charge for all TP users to read this book and visit this web site:
PLEASE ALL TP users, READ THIS BOOK by Jack Lohman. This book has changed my view our entire political system:
Politicians – Owned and Operated by Corporate America
Here’s a link to where these political crooks get their money from. It’s NOT from us!
Link to moneyed politicians’ site – opensecrets.org (If and when this site becomes obsolete, we’ve done our job as citizens.)
I’m going to keep posting this until I hear TP users say, “I’ve read the book.”
May 7th, 2009 at 2:03 pmDont worry, not gonna reveal your id. Just grouping all of your schizo-twins together. We have DNFP, the _ANT_ variants skeedadle~ lion etc, This=>Oval 123~~, DRx Japanese~~~ and the ‘beetle’ variants, Dr Hussein Matt etc. I will add to the list later. Happy trolling. watch out, that’s not a real person you see behind you in the mirror. It is one of your schizo-twins…
May 7th, 2009 at 2:07 pmSnowe also complained that, “to the average American,” the GOP is just the party of “Big Oil and the rich“:
– -And Big Rush, and Big Palin, and Big Intelligent Design, and Big Not-Science-But-Faith, Big CO2 Deniers, Big Anti-Union, Big Get-Your-Own-Damn-Healthcare, Big, I mean BIG, American Exceptionalism (the kind where we can do NO wrong and we can do anything we want cuz we’re, after all, US.)
May 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pmget out! get the -uck out! don’t come back you -itch! get the -uck out of our lives! we live free! you go ahead and make it official you starbucks sucking tramp! were all contestants here and the real conservatives aka real americans are the -ucking few the proud. we are free. we are patriots. only the g-d strongest survive. and the more conservative you are the stronger and prosperous and patriotic you are. so get the -uck out you tramp from the horrific state of maine! go!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pmwe conservamericans are getting fired up here! bring your mental disease on liberals! bring it the -uck on you grass eating horse pooping mutherf uckers! you have green balls, all of you!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:14 pmI remember when there was a time in this country where GOP and Democrat could have a rational discussion and disagree on fundamental differences in policy and law.
The party has been hijacked by psychos and rich people, Glenn Beck and the rest of FOX News. Their stupidity and rationale has eliminated the ability of even the most fundamenally decent discussions about policies and social issues impossible.
I may disagree with nearly all aspects of the GOP, but I would rather it moderate itself and get rational, instead of the Dems getting its cast-offs.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:14 pmhey, she’s not too quick on the uptake but i do believe she’s catching on.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:14 pmDear Neoparroty aka Neo-nazi
Remember last time when I burned you like a CIA interrogation tape and sent you packing like the mule you are? Ya that was fun. The only thing you’re burning is crosses. Love ya!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:18 pmYours truly,
Druid boy.
Same thing could be said about the Democrats. As Gore Vidal once famously said, There’s only one political party and that’s the Corporate party. It has two wings: The Republican and the Democratic. To wit…
For over 4 years, I’ve been meaning to take some seriously hard and brutal body shots at Max Baucus. Today, I broke my silence.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:19 pmi love you too druids!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:23 pmI’ve always liked Olympia Snowe. I don’t understand why she doesn’t just leave the party. They hate moderates and she continually says GOP makes her feel unwelcome.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:23 pmOooh! Feel the burn.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:24 pmNeo: now we see the parody…well done!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:26 pmWow! That is some return on investment. Big Oil only gave the Republicans $20 million, and the Republicans paid them back with $20 BILLION/year in taxpayer money.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:26 pmYou think by Sunday she will be apolozing for Master Rush!
May 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pmDon’t forget “The Party of Sheep”, as they all follow whomever is deemed Dear Leader………who, at this point, seems to be The Rushbo, sad to say. So far, the only Republican who has not bowed down and kissed his ass is Colin Powell. If that happens, I will know that the party has really gone to hell (not that I’d care, but I would be disappointed in Powell, who is the only Republican I respect at this point in time.)
May 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pmNimrods all. The Republic Party has been the Party of Big Business for at least 40 years. So what else is new?
May 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pm.
Dear Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME),
Corporatism… Fascism…
… And the difference here is what, exactly?
XXOO
America
.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:42 pmTsk tsk tsk. WhaddatellU about these veiled threats, eh?
May 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pmSen. Snowe: GOP is ‘the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich.’
No Shite! And it is the party of the:
Bigots
May 7th, 2009 at 2:45 pmRacists
Anti-Sciencers &
Whack Jobs
Hahahahaha she says this now? The GOPranos showed this in 1929.
If you want to stop the GOPranos, go here. http://action.democratz.org
May 7th, 2009 at 2:45 pmMs. Snowe just might end up being booted out. Along with Ms.Collins. Watch your back ladies. Or start your own party. Or come over to the other side. Where at least you are unlikely to be attacked.
To be a republican, you must part company from civility, and truth. You must wrap yourself in the flag and the Bible. And you must seek to destroy. You must also be bereft of ideas and adhere to old slogans. If this is your idea of a rational party, then by all means stay there. Become brain dead. It is the only way to survive republicanism.
Put your mind on hold and do as your told. Actually that is a quote from an old Saturday Nite live spud beer commercial.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pmCan’t say this wasn’t predictable:
Joe the Plumber quitting the GOP: report
“Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience.”
Wurzelbacher’s been in the news for his homophobic remarks earlier this week, in which he said he’s told “queers” to stay away from his children.
Well, more elections. Big Government is never popular in theory, but the disaster aid, school lunches and prescription drugs that make up Big Government have become wildly popular in practice, especially now that so many people are hurting. Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience. But he also said he wouldn’t support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid — which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits. It’s no coincidence that many Republicans who voted against the stimulus have claimed credit for stimulus projects in their district — or that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal stopped ridiculing volcano-monitoring programs after a volcano erupted in Alaska. “We can’t be the antigovernment party,” Snowe says. “That’s not what people want.”
Can’t wait for Hannity and Rush to give him the treatment. Heh, heh.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pmThe dems aren’t far behind them the way they take money from the insurance and banking industries who are clearly their true constituents now.
Their strategy seems to be – “…give them just enough to shut them up – we don’t need them to like us – they just need to like us better than the other guy. Let’s throw them a few bones and they’ll still vote for us.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pm“You’ve just had a heavy dose of electro-shock therapy, and you’re more relaxed than you’ve felt in months. All of those childhood traumas wiped away, along with most of your personality”.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:58 pmTRUE REPUBLICAN VALUES IN ACTION
Does anyone think that the tens of millions of Americans personally harmed by escalating costs, the loss of manufacturing jobs, offshore outsourcing of jobs and or fear of losing their jobs, homes, automobiles and ability to clothe and feed their children give two s***s about billionaire companies and millionaire executives who purposefully exploit tax havens/loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of taxes?
When Republican talking heads criticize Obama for trying to level the employment and or taxation playing fields for American workers in an effort to stimulate the dangerously weak American economy, all they are doing is more callously fueling the fires of class warfare and demonstrating their mean-spirited contempt and disregard for the survival of working-class Americans and the growth of the American economy.
The last thing Republicans want is a pluralistic economy that benefits more rather than fewer Americans. They want MORE for themselves, while millions of American families have TOO LITTLE or NOTHING AT ALL. Those are the TRUE REPUBLICAN VALUES in action.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:07 pmAnd…the facists worldwide….
May 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pmWow. That sounds like someone shopping for a new address on the other side of the aisle…
May 7th, 2009 at 3:24 pmCould it be that “the average American” is on to something?
May 7th, 2009 at 3:53 pmAre we sure this is a republican speaking?
May 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pmSenator, do come join the real party of the people:the Socialists!!
May 7th, 2009 at 4:00 pmNot necessarily, she could just leave the party.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:07 pmGood for her. I’m not sure about Senator Collins but I don’t think it’s justa political ploy with Senator Snowe.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:08 pmIf she would break free of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh could not hurt her. Limbaugh has no power over humans.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:30 pmSen. Snowe: GOP is “the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich.”
Ummm, can I get a no ‘ish Sherlock on this one Madame Senator?
May 7th, 2009 at 4:30 pmNo offense, but did Maine elect her to state the obvious?
Whoa, did she clear this with Party Boss Limbaugh first? She’s in for one helluva on-air smackdown!
May 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pmTo quote Joy: “She’s turning, she’s turning, she’s turning!”
Actually, the ‘moderate’ (or sane) Republicans have not place in Rush’s party. Where else can they go? Duh.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pmSo that’s how Bush raised so much money for he “Lie-brary”. WOW!!!!!!!! Snowe is laying the ground work for her defection to the Democratic party.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:31 pmThe irony is that many of her Republican colleagues thought that she was bragging. (”Damn straight, we are!”)
May 7th, 2009 at 5:35 pmShe sounds like somebody firing a warning shot to the GOP. Either moderate or I am out of here.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:41 pmGod I like this woman. She’s a field of tulips in full bloom surrounded by prickly weeds. The truth will set her free. I hope the boys are listening.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:54 pmthat’s right % 100 .
May 7th, 2009 at 8:44 pmneoparasite you are so pathetic it makes decent people sick to even know you exist. See liberalism is HIGHER brain function thus far beyond your limited ability to understand. You are STUPID. Vastly, magnificently, overwhelmingly stupid. You are so stupid you redefine the term. Even YOU know how stuid you are which is why you give us reruns, this time of Micheal the Wienerdog Savage. My GOD dont you just despair of how stupid and pathetic you are? You are ignorant, you are a punk and you are a troll. You will never have any self respect or a single original thought. Pondscum is several rungs above you on the evolutionary ladder. Crackwhores have more dignity than you
May 7th, 2009 at 10:51 pmOoooo, Susan’s going to spend 10 minutes in Republican Hell for saying this.
They will now nail her to the cross.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:05 amDoes it help our progressive cause to write misleading i.e., false headlines?
Olympia Snowe didn’t say that “the GOP was the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich”. She said that “to the average American,” the GOP is just the party of “Big Oil and the rich“
May 8th, 2009 at 12:09 amLet me see if I get this right. When Snow talks about the rich, would she be talking about George Soros, all the Hollywood rich, union bosses? Are these people Republicans?
May 8th, 2009 at 12:17 amRepublicans say the aren’t for big government. That’s because they are for government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:30 amUm, have you ever heard of the Kennedys, Rockefellers, Clinton’s, Harry Reed, the Pelosi’s, the Biden’s, Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, the Sandler’s, the democratic leadership, George Soros, Fannie Mac executives, the federal reserve board and bankers, wall street executives, the union leaderships, Hollywood, the media, GE, the universities, many state officials, and not to mention over 10 trillion tax payer dollars in the hands of a few democratic individuals. Ya, this party is not the party of the rich. ?
It is big government politicians who are the true rich, like a thug, they take what they want, through taxes and regulations, and it is they who are living of the blood, sweat tears of everyone, especially the poor.
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