Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/13/senate.health.care/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...dex.html</a> Finally. Watch the fur fly as Olympia Snowe is vilified by the usual chumps.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Now the Senate just has to merge their two bills. Then the House has to merge their three. Then they have to merge the House and Senate versions together. Let's hope a public option - which is present in all BUT this Baucus committee bill - and some teeth for insurance regulation make it in the final bill.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Watch the fur fly as Olympia Snowe is vilified by the usual chumps.*** Headline on Drudge; "Party of One; She's All Alone" Of course, that's considered the worst of the worst for a group which prides itself on loyalty and marching in lockstep together. Personally I like the HuffPo headline better; "Snowe Melts"
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Snowe will get the last laugh as she watches many of those Republicans in the pockets of the insurance industry get voted out of office very soon. When all the hellfire and damnation and socialism the GOP has predicted regarding healthcare doesn't happen, they'll look more foolish than ever. A majority of this country sees the need for healthcare reform, while a majority of Republican politicians want to ignore it. That's something voters need to remember in 2010 -- which party was trying to pass some sort of healthcare bill, and which party did nothing but stall tactics and distraction.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Snowe will get the last laugh as she watches many of those Republicans in the pockets of the insurance industry get voted out of office very soon.<< Yeah, she's only like the most popular Senator in the country, with something like an 80% approval rating in her home state. I think she'll do fine and history will smile on her kindly.
Originally Posted By Mr X Lest we glorify this person too much, keep in mind that she contributed significantly to making sure no public option was available in this version of the reform effort. Hopefully she'll lose that battle when the bills are merged, but I'm worried.
Originally Posted By ecdc I understand that, but it took a lot of courage for her to cast the vote the way she did today. She has an entire party and an entire segment of Americans that will positively loathe her for it.
Originally Posted By Spyderman If this healthcare bill passes without a public option I will do everything in my power to vote EVERYONE out of office.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Everyone? Why not vote out your representatives that voted against the public option?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo What I love is this is a step forward. While the bill may not be perfect, it is still probably the largest step since Teddy Roosevelt was in office. I hope that the journey continues and that finally we can see some social justice for all.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Finally. Watch the fur fly as Olympia Snowe is vilified by the usual chumps.<< I know it's a few days old, but I just stumbled across this over at borowitz.com (no direct links, due to bad language): >>GOP Claims Olympia Snowe Was Born in Kenya Birthers Demand Proof of Non-Kenyan Status WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Just moments after she broke with fellow Republicans and voted in favor of health care reform, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) came under fire from the GOP for allegedly lying about her nation of birth. "This vote is going to raise suspicions, once again, that Sen. Snowe was born in Kenya," said GOP Chairman Michael Steele. "We demand that she prove, once and for all, that she is definitely not Kenyan." Orly Taitz, leader of the so-called "birther" movement, said that Sen. Snowe's vote was "textbook Kenyan" behavior: "She's putting her tribe first."<< I think it's satire (though these days it's hard to be sure).
