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Defend America on Friday, February 05, 2010 2:11:22 PM
February 5, 2010 12:00 P.M.
Two Cheers for the Maine Ladies
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe poke President Obama’s “blind spot” on terrorism.
When
Obamacare sailed into rough waters near Christmas, most Republicans
jumped ship. But two GOP senators, Maine’s Susan Collins and Olympia
Snowe, clung to the battered vessel right until Ben Nelson cut the rope.
This week, the Maine
ladies redeemed themselves with their handling of the Republican
riposte to President Obama’s foundering anti-terror policy. It was a
welcome surprise. As northeast moderates, Snowe and Collins could have
easily continued to glide through Senate life, secure in their belief
that the GOP is lucky to have them on its side. Yet, refreshingly, in
both tone and substance, they snapped this week — irking everyone from
Robert Gibbs and Eric Holder to Rachel Maddow and the
Huffington Post — coming down hard on the Obama administration’s handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed Christmas bomber.
Maybe,
after months of patiently listening to a logorrheic swirl of
health-care arguments from liberals, Collins and Snowe have had enough
of Team Obama’s talk-talk ways. Maybe the success of their new Senate
neighbor, Scott Brown, shook them awake. Whatever the reason, the duo
showed real verve in taking a scalpel to the administration’s excuses
and the incoherent bureaucracy otherwise known as our national-security
apparatus.
http://article.nationalreview.com/424083/two-cheers-for-the-maine-ladies/robert-costa