Snowe Job! Olympia Snowe votes Finance Bill Out of Committee

Update: BaucusCare passes 14-9. Olympia Snowe job is the only Republican to vote Yes!

Call turncoat Snowe and let her know how you feel! Sen. Snowe’s contact info:

Phone: (202) 224-5344
Toll Free: (800) 432-1599
Fax: (202) 224-1946

Of course liberals have creamed their pants at the “bipartisanship” of Snowe. The AP somehow found a way to take a swipe a Sarah Palin. The title of their story is The real female maverick in GOP: Olympia Snoweand it begins with

(AP) – Forget Sarah Palin. The female maverick of the Republican Party is Sen. Olympia Snowe.

The 62-year-old, moderate Maine lawmaker voted on Tuesday for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party and giving a major boost to President Barack Obama’s drive to expand coverage to millions of Americans.


RINO Senator from Maine Olympia Snowe has agreed to vote the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill out of committee, allowing Demorcats to claim the support of at least one Republican. Snowe emphasized that this was merely one step in a long process, and that her vote today should not be used to forecast her final vote. More from American Spectator:

Now that passage out of the Finance Committee is all but official, the bill will have to be merged with the more liberal Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill. Snowe said that she’ll want to see a CBO estimate of the final merged bill — written in legislative language — before determing whether or not to vote for it.

While expressing several reservations about the bill, she said, “When history calls, history calls.”

This is a good headline for Democrats today, but it doesn’t solve the underlying friction between moderate and liberal members of Congress. The ability to attract one Republican may stregthen Baucus’s hand during negotiations with Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Chris Dodd (representing the HELP Committee) and embolden Blue Dogs in the to oppose the inclusion of a government-run plan in the House. Everything will hinge on whether House liberals cave in on their demand for a government plan, or dig in.

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October 13, 2009 · Filed Under ObamaCARE


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  • http://www.colony14.net/id41.html Colony14

    I wonder what Snowe got for this?
    A chateau in the South of France?
    What do these TURN COATS like her and Collins, Specter get out of approving of the death of millions of their fellow man in this Nation.
    That’s what this bill means. It means millions of elderly White people being denied health procedures, medicines, operations, etc.
    It means cutting them OFF of the funding that’s needed to keep them healthy and living longer lives. It is very clear to me that Obama does not want this to be so.
    Why can’t more Americans SEE this?
    Why can’t they SEE that Obama does not want Elderly White people to live longer lives?