Susan Collins (R-ME) Removes Incriminating Article from Website
April 27, 2009
(Updated below.)
Roughly 90 minutes ago (11:00 a.m. ET), the following article appeared on Susan Collin’s website. In it, she is praised for, “expressing concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness”:
Collins ended up being instrumental in killing that provision.
Now (12:29 p.m. ET) the article is gone:
Hey Susan, don’t you have the guts to stand up for what you appearently believe in — or were you just pandering to “the base?” (And by hiding this information, who are you pandering to now?)
Update 4-28 / 5:01 p.m ET: Some of my commenters are finding the article on Collins’ site now. I don’t know whether it was put back up, moved, or what, but appearently it’s there.
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Tirebiter in Sector R | April 28, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Jindal makes fun of volcano monitoring. Mt. Redoubt blows up.
Collins opposes pandemic preparedness. Swine flu hits.
Let us pray that no Republican comes out against watching for giant kill-off-the-dinos meteors.
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Geoff Wittig | April 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM
File under, Republicans are cowards.
This is a huge and rapidly expanding file.
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Austin | April 28, 2009 at 3:36 PM
“File under, Republicans are cowards.”
Wow. You’re a real scholar! Lovely mentality.
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NickDanger | April 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I, being one of those folks who likes to check things out, went to Sen. Collins’s website and did a simpler search. “GOP Wields”. The article in question popped right up. Entered in the whole article title and put it in quotes and it doesn’t find it. Tried whole article name without quotes and it found it.
SO, either they put it back OR you got so specific you tricked the search engine OR you took the opportunity to distort the presence/non-presence of the article in order to sling some mud. The latter being a ‘Roveian’ tool. Please do not pick up those tools…they are nasty, dirty and slippery.
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RichardV | April 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM
I was curious about this myself, so I wandered over to the Senator’s site. Without using the search engine, I looked for a logical place to see what article(s) might be there and on the left, there’s a menu item labeled “Press Room”, which then has a menu item labeled “Articles”, which gives you a list of articles, amongst which exists an article dated February 5, 2009 just like in the first screen capture. It even has the same title.
Being a web app developer at times, and still willing to give the write of the article on _this_ site the benefit of the doubt, I thought it might be a caching issue, and wouldn’t it be amusing to see the Senator’s site not having covered up its tracks during redaction?
Clicking on the link produced the same article. It is not gone.
In fact, it’s here: http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Articles&ContentRecord_id=46d6e846-802a-23ad-4ccd-8f37bc42d004&Region_id=
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Glenn | April 28, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Nick is correct, the article is still there.
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Steph | April 28, 2009 at 5:26 PM
It’s also possible that they left the article intact and instead restricted what search terms returned results – filtering out “swine flu” or whatever you might have typed in to search. That can be done on the back end to obscure searches in hopes that less intrepid folks who don’t want to take the time to browse don’t discover them.
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bobinkk | April 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Search for “pandemic” (no quotes) and the article comes up.