Proud of senators

To the editor:
    I am so immensely proud of Maine’s two Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins for their courage, their bipartisanship and their “can do” spirit that says “We must support our President because the people of America have spoken.”  Shame on the rest of the Republican Party that they could not stand up in a similar fashion, cross party lines and stand with President Obama and the stimulus packet. But watch how happily many Republican governors and senators will gladly accept the money to assist their state in these hard economic times. Many have chosen to whine or bluster and yet not present any concrete plan of their own. It sounds like they are all worrying about their own next election thinking, what if President Obama’s plan does not work and we’ve supported it. Good grief, we’d better sit this one out. I say why not work together. We have all been asked to do just that at the grass roots level. Now it’s the turn of our elected officials to work together too.
    Let us not forget the leadership of the last eight years that has put us where we are as a nation and these difficult times our new President has inherited. But rather than blaming, let’s join together and make this country great again. Let’s not be waiting for President Obama to make a mistake – he will anyway, he’s human – let’s be standing ready to catch him when he trips and set him back on his path for as he said in his inaugural address “The challenges we face are real. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But … they will be met.”
Jennifer F. Sylvester
New Limerick