SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS HAS FALLEN OFF HER PEDASTAL

     Maine Senator, Susan Collins, has long had my respect along with Olympia Snow.  However, today I heard Se. Collins politically prostitute herself to plead that Senator Kerry is the best choice for Secretary of State.  Are we now to have the Republicans choosing the Cabinet for President Obama?  Amazing that all of them who have spoken, McCain, Graham, Ayotte, and Collins as well as a few who don't make the TV, seem to think Kerry is the only choice and would have you believe it has nothing to do with the fact that it would leave a seat that most likely would fall back to a Republican in the Senate.

     It is sad for me to see Senator Collins fall into the party line to that degree.  She used to care more for the country than the party; apparently that is no longer true.

     Alex Halperin wrote an excellent article in Salon sharing all that the Senator had to say about her reaction to meeting with Ambassador Susan Rice, published in Salon.   It seems the Republicans have learned nothing by the loss of the election.  They still behave as though they believe we see their motives as purely in the best interests of the country, when in fact, they are in the best interests of only a few Republicans and Grover Norquist who has held the country hostage for so many years. 

     The Republican party reminds me of chickens with their heads cut off.  Their nervous systems keep them active for many seconds, thus the saying "running like a chicken with its head cut off".  If you can get by the first video of a man wasting your time saying thanks, hang in for the second if you don't mind reality in the food chain.  This is not for the faint-hearted, but those of us living on a farm are inured to the event.  Will they soon accept the loss and stop trying to do business as usual in the past four years at the waste of our time and causing suffering to continue for many looking for jobs?