Posted on 09/05/2009 10:50:20 AM PDT by AJKauf
Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine has a reputation for what her supporters call “independent thinking” — which in the past has essentially meant that she only supports her party on matters of procedure in the Senate.
Since Arlen Specter finally switched parties, Snowe has been the leading light of the so-called RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), or, rather, the most infuriating example. What has most irked people of late? Snowe volunteered to head to the White House to ensure that Obama’s socialized medicine proposal continues along its merry way. While commentators on both sides of the aisle have declared the bill rather dead, she is keen to revive it.
This is not the first time Snowe has gone out of her way to be the bugbear of the Republican Party. On Specter, she deemed all Republicans who felt he was in the wrong party constituted the “far right.” She described Club for Growth as “far right.” She has also said...
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Yeah, she does what's best for Olympia with true conviction.
Nooooooo, in this case it should be an elephant boinking an elephant
Snowe is a frustrated old bat, whom Obama has had several private meeting with. She is now no better than a communist. I truly believe she has the hots for him.
She is an embarrassment to the Republican party. Women THAT ugly belong in the Democrat party.
To get her to switch parties? Not when she has a good look at what's heading her way come 2010, she wants back in the majority.
She already jumped on the stimulus bandwagon, and now is threatening to join on health care. She’s a lost cause.
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