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When Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe broke ranks with GOP leadership last week and joined three fellow Republicans in voting against the House GOP's budget plan for the next fiscal year, you could almost hear the chant from their right flank.
R-I-N-O was the cry, the derisive term that is used by conservatives to describe those they consider "Republicans In Name Only" and is often hurled at Snowe and Collins.See the full content of this document
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Senators Pressured by Left, Right
But there was a similar gnashing of teeth from liberals May 19, when Snowe and Collins joined all but one Republican senator in voting to filibuster the nomination of Berkeley law professor Gordon Liu, President Obama's nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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