Posted on 09/14/2009 2:47:44 PM PDT by TroutGuy
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is the chief proponent of a public option "trigger," but she said Monday that she does not expect one in the Finance Committee bill.
In fact, the trigger has barely come up in the Gang of Six talks.
"It probably will be a straight co-op at this point," Snowe said. "We did not discuss the trigger to be part of the co-op, at least in the framework we have before us."
She said she wasn't abandoning the idea, which Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) panned on the Sunday talk shows.
"It may be something down the road," Snowe said. "The critical issue is to make sure the public option isn't part of the plan at any point in the process and leaving that open to a legislative possibility creates enormous uncertainty."
It's hard to know which of these two possibilities to root for- any bill that gets 60 votes will have been watered down a good bit in all likelihod. But if the Dems pass it through reconciliation, then it will sunset in five years and have to be re-enacted then by Congress.
So which is better: a horrible bill that sunsets in five years or a bad bill that lasts forever? I kind of root for the first, partly because the political damage the Dems incur by going the reconciliation route will be enormous. We can get a Republican Congress in five years and repeal the whole thing.
Never trust ANYTHING Snowe says! She will always sell out to the highest bidder!
Stupid RINO - a Co-Op is the government plan. I hate RINOs and RATs
I truly think you have misplaced trust in the Republicans, at least the current nest of cockroaches that infest our capitol.
Snowe is dangerous because she’s unpredictable. Collins is dangerous because she’s a drooling moron.
They can do a “straight co-op” without a pork-filled bill.
Yep, just another name for government control. Blech.
The issue with the so called “coops” is structure, who will appoint the first slate of directors, the dems and the WH? What government controls will Washington have on the coops? If the coops are modeled after Southern States Cooperatives then that might be worth talking about, but I don’t see that happening. Plus, the Gang of 6 has been talking about coops well over a month and nothing has happened. I think the dems will push for reconciliation with 50 + 1 votes, and the final bill might very well contain some sort of public option.
That was funny!
Snowe can suck it.
She is as gutless and as two-faced as they come, and anything she votes for will be in her own interests rather than the interests of America. The “co-op” is just another shell game; the government creates a government-run “company” that sells private plans along with the public option. Every provision that is designed to destroy the private insurance industry and thus force you onto government coverage stays exactly the same.
I don't like your line of thinking.
AT.
ALL!
If they are going to pass something, let them cram it down our throats the hard way. We WILL send their unemployed a$$e$ packing in 2010, not in 5 years!
-Toe.
And let me tell ya, I just watched Glenn Beck. Look, I like what the guy says--and I think the Republicans have problems too...big ones...but at times he seems to be equivocating the two parties. And in my opinion that is not an accurate portrayal of the reality.
Hussein, a liberal Democrat (fascist/socialist) as an Alinsky disciple is SO MUCH WORSE than even a RINO like Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins. Why? Because those two women are making foolish alliances; misguided and harmful, but not fiends. Hussein deceives on purpose...like all Alinsky disciples.
In a nutshell, there is a HUGE difference between the parties that I think Beck misses...now, I am not at all dismissing the need for Republican leadership to straighten their act up. But the gulf between the Dems and Republicans is palatable. That is why I am, forever, a
Recovering_Democrat.
And McCain is even more dangerous because he's both.
Purge the RINOs! Impeach Obama! Deport the czars back to Russia!
It makes no difference who is in the majority. If enacted and sunsets in five years, it will just stay on the books so to speak. Washington never cuts anything once they realize the amount of $ realized from the tax increases.
"It probably will be a straight Trojan Horse co-op at this point," Snowe said. "We did not discuss the trigger to be part of the co-op, at least in the framework we have before us."
They should both be kicked out of office and never be allowed to run for office under the Republican label. Aren’t there any serious conservative primary challenges to these two idiots?
Hopefully the lefties will hate the bill, and it won’t get anywhere.
But now that O has “upped the stakes” (and approval rating) expect something to pass.
I have been a democrat, republican independent..currently and a libertarian. I lean mostly libertarian but a conservative one. I am changing back to Republican to stop Crist and vote for Rubio.
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