To What End?

It appears that Sen. Collins wants to cut from the stimulus special education funding targeted to forestall hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs in economically disadvantaged areas.

Does she think allowing a massive numbers special education teachers to be laid off won't further hurt the economy? Or that keeping these people employed isn't stimulative?

Does she dispute the notion that the cuts she's calling for would result in layoffs?

Or does she have something against funding special education in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods?

In the alternative universe in which Maine has a functioning press corps, someone is asking the junior senator these questions.