Posted on 09/14/2009 11:04:25 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of GOP Sen. Susan Collins saying she will NOT support a Health Care Bill with a "Public Option," or a "Trigger" for a "Public Option." She made the statement to CNN's John King.
Collins is one Republican Democrats have thought they could convince to support ObamaCare, but she said flatly in this video she will not support the "Public Option." Collins rightly said that a "trigger" only delays implementation of a "Public Option." To vote for a "trigger" when it is the Government who will decide if the "trigger" needs to be used, is to guarantee an eventual Government-run program. . . . (VIDEO)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
Good for her. But I am still concerned at what she will support.
This is big. No republican senator except for Snowe will vote for the bill.
Snowe is the weak link.
Snowe is not a Republican.
Can you hear us now ! ?
Perhaps a rally FREEDOM WORKS in Washington Saturday could have changed her mind ?
This is not Perot IMHO where they all disappeared.
We are pissed and we ain't going away and we will not be appeased.
Fix SSI, Medicare, Medicare, No Gov't money for AMTRAK, NPR, PBS etc, we are broke..
IMHO that makes her and even the blue dogs more dangerous. Because they know they are toast politically and they will fall on their swords for their cause if told so.
Am I missing something here? I think she’s on our side this time:
“saying she will NOT support a Health Care Bill with a ‘Public Option,’ or a ‘Trigger’ for a “Public Option.”
Any, and I mean any gov involvement in our health care system will be the end of freedom.
She is all over the Coop option.
Anyone care to illuminate why that is just as bad? I think so but do not know so.
She’s been snookered before.
The article is about Collins, not Snowe.
Snowe has called the public option “a roadblock to consensus” but left a lot of doors open, including a trigger. Snowe wants specifics about Obama’s idea of a public option.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338725/posts
Hell has frozen over!!!!!!!
None of this matters when they use reconciliation.
They will not let go the Public Plan. It will destroy Health insurance. If your employer cancels the company insurance to pay the 8% tax and get rid of the hassel there is no provision for them to increase your salary. The 8% will mostly affect low income workers. What a scam. No wonder business is not raising hell about it. What a bunch of FOOLS Obamabots are.
She wants co-ops...
I know this question is neither here nor there....and I don’t mean to ‘crap up the thread’.......but does Susan Collins have some sort of ‘palsy’ or Parkinson’s? I’ve noticed that lately when I’ve seen her on telly. She has a slight ‘shakiness’ in her voice and head movements.
I find that “trigger” sounds vaguely racist.
WOW! Great news! Who woke Susan up?
Bambi, not to worry, Snowe will CAVE IN, ROLL OVER and BEND OVER for you......AS USUAL!
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