WGME Explores Susan Collins Role in Iraq Oversight Failures

Susan Collins was missing in action on Iraq Oversight as Chair of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, leaving tax payers and the troops holding the bag.

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[djonan]

Just look at who chairs the House version of this Committee - Henry Waxman. How much stuff has he uncovered in the past year...now imagine if Lieberman/Collins been on the job for America

[Alohabunny]

As long as the war industry is allowed to bribe the Congress the American people will be involved in endless wars for money. That is a fact try to live with it. We all need to clean house of these corrupt Congress people. Susan Collins is just another phony common crook.

[Sckooled]

Tom Allen is becoming more desperate by the day. Susan Collins has done a lot more good than bad. He keeps on trying to break down susan collins and are trying to get maine voter away from the better choice. Tom Allen runs a bad campaign and cant win with just his political views. Politics like this are wrong and people who run campaigns of this nature should be ashamed.

[Scyllax]

Her committee did nothing about the many and varied crimes of The Bush administration, and her commercials about her courageous stand in favor of companies continuing the business-as-usual of rigging union elections make me sick.

[emerys94]

You gotta be kiddin! susan collins sat and stifled all dissent while Halliburton/KBR & Blackwater ROBBED US BLIND, DEAF & DUMB!!!!! she not only deserves to lose the election, she should be the subject of a congressional investigation !!!!!

[passatpdd]

addison, I completely agree with you. tom allen doesn't know better because he's using everyone's money. no matter what happens, there is going to be fraud everywhere, its the government people, government is the most inefficient system in the US. why are you going to the news and trying to blame Collins for the nation's decisions? you're starting to sound like Hillary Clinton.

[addisonpainter]

Tom Allen must be getting desperate if he has to resort to snowing WGME and Maine voters this pack of trumped up charges. Everyone knows that Sen. Collins has been extremely effective in stamping out government waste. Come on, Tom. I expected more from a Rhodes Scholar.

[dogstar7]

Susan Collins held the doors of the U.S. Treasury open for Halliburton and KBR to loot at their leisure.

[DCster]

Although I'm sure she has done some good things in office, Allen makes a valid point here. Forcing contractor CEOs to testify before the Senate would make them extra cautious that their companies are not engaging in mismanagement and waste of taxpayer money. I think the mere threat of getting grilled before Congress could have curtailed abuses, but for some reason Sen. Collins didn't seem inclined to do so.

[gemhunter99]

She has fought to ensure that important social programs here at home are adequately funded, to secure more funding for education, to help children receive mental health care, to ensure adequate health care in rural areas, and to boost funding for heating assistance through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. She also sought solutions to high prescription drug costs and gasoline prices.

[gemhunter99]

How was her inability to hold them responsible detrimental to the citizens of Maine anymore than any other state? It was detrimental to all of us...and it was known to all government officials from the president to the congressional aides. It does not matter who chaired the committee...they would not have done anything. How do you figure she funneled tax dollars from Maine? directly to Haliburton/KBR. I tend to look for the postitive like what she has got back from the till for us...cont...

[maxx1000]

So,

How does Susan Collins' inability to hold Halliburton/KBR accountable an asset for Maine? I mean, the tax dollars she allowed to be funnelled from Maine alone, could have been put to far more better use... NO?