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...Republican, do you feel angry at Maine Senator Olympia Snowe for breaking ranks? ? I don't personally because Olympia Snowe is Olympia Snowe. She tends to vote as much with the Democrats as she does with the Republicans. I'm more disappointed - not angry, but disappointed - that President Obama has not lived up to almost any of his promises. Bipartisanship, that has not happened. Transparency, that's not happened. Putting bills out for the public to read five days before he would sign them, that has not happened. Focusing on preventive care rather than just trying to push...
...Meanwhile, the White House Monday sought to tamp down reports that it has misgivings about Reid's plan to bring a public option to the floor, which may well cause the only Republican who might vote for reform, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, to vote with her party. Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement declaring that President Obama is 'pleased that the Senate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, in this case with an allowance for states to opt out. As he said to Congress and the nation in September, he supports the public option...
Somewhere, the ghost of Lyndon B. Johnson is smiling. Senator Olympia Snowe's lone Republican vote for health-care reform in the Senate Finance Committee didn't just advance an issue close to LBJ's heart--as President, the Texan signed Medicare into law--it was also a masterstroke in political leverage. And no one loved Senate politics more than he. Snowe's yea earned her--a member of a weakened minority, from the lovely but not very influential state of Maine--a voice in the small group hashing out the final version of the bill. In the Senate...
...clashes about whether and how to make that mandate apply to everyone. And those are just the fights inside his own party. Of all five bills, only the Senate Finance Committee's garnered any GOP support and that came in the form of the single vote of Maine's Olympia Snowe. And Snowe made it clear that her support on final passage is by no means assured, rattling off a laundry list of changes she'd like to see made. Other Republicans are also expected to offer amendments to reinstate some or all of the $500 billion in cuts...
...unaware that we elected him dictator, giving him both houses of Congress and the major television networks whenever he wants them. Instead of ignoring people's objections until they get socialized medicine and realize they like it, as England's leaders did, Obama is worried about seducing Olympia Snowe so he can say his health bill is bipartisan. Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other uptight white people. While Obama negotiates on climate change, the Chinese government has forced China's entire...