Where is Susan Collins?

Dick Lugar is speaking up about the Iraq debacle. But where are the supposed "moderate" Republicans? You know them, the folks who got elected in moderate, reasonable parts of the country, like Maine, by pretending to not be the neanderthals that most of the Republican party leadership is nowadays.

And the prime neanderthal-denialist is Maine GOP Senator, Susan Colllins. Collins loves to be second. If there's a trail to blaze, Collins will sit back quietly, quaking in her boots, until other more courageous, "real" moderates like Olympia Snowe stick their necks out first. So now that Lugar has stuck his neck out, where are the other GOP Senators, like Collins, who claim to be concerned about the war? Where is Olympia? Where is John Warner? Where are Sununu and Smith?

I was a Republican, a long time ago. And the "moderates" haven't changed a bit in their temperament since that time. They claim to represent the middle, but all they represent is themselves - that is, when they're not busy hiding.