Posted on 10/13/2009 11:57:09 AM PDT by Steelfish
October 13, 2009
Why One Vote Matters In The Senate
By The Editors
Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, said that she will support the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill, the only Republican to do so. For months, her support seemed pivotal to health care’s overhaul in the Senate. For much of the public, it’s puzzling that the politics of reshaping a sector that accounts for 16 percent of the G.D.P. should seemingly hinge on one senator.
Is this a healthy and expected consequence of Congressional politics? What might this say about how partisan politics has evolved? Is there a historical precedent that we might compare this to?
(Excerpt) Read more at roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com ...
It doesn’t depend on her vote. This is NYTimes slobber of the worst possible kind. What garbage.
GOP party bosses should find a conservative to run in Maine and then send the party $$ on that candidate. If nothing else, to send a message to others that want to “play nice” with the Dems
The WH said it’s now a bi-partisan bill.
“The country, frankly, is fortunate that the one holding the most cards is Olympia Snowe. Few public officials are as honest, principled, independent and smart as she is.”
Nothing but more lib tripe.
Let her stand alone.
This issue, as I understand it, is far from over.
Hussein has yet to fully endorse this version of communism.
Unions are against it.
The bill taxes health benefits—something the PUBLIC doesn’t seem to yet know.
And it differs from the House bill.
And this bill has not yet passed the full Senate.
I’m not saying SnoweJobs’ support is inconsequential, but this is not necessarily the coup the media is trying to portray.
Tea Partiers probably ought to speak up. Again.
Half of Maine is AARP socialist retirees from New York and Boston combined with lovey-dovey Kumbayah llama-farming refugees from the Sixties who moved in from around the country.
The other half used to be hardscrabble live-free-or-die old-time New England rural poor or quasi-poor by New York or San Fran standards (but proud in their “poverty” because at least they were free). But half of that second half is joining the Bread and Circuses mob, like the lines that formed to get some of “Obama’s Stash” in Detroit last week.
That’s the problem. Even some of the old-time Mainers were so “independent” and “mad at Bush” for his war and so forth that they voted for the Girly-Man-in-Chief out of spite.
Worse than tripe. Raw bias of a corrupt media.
What kind of nonsense is this? Her vote wasn’t pivotal except now the news agencies can say it was “bipartisan”.
I’ve got a question. With Democrats controlling all three branches of government, why would they harp so strongly on getting any republican vote at all? This reeks of propaganda and foreign influence to me.
L.L. Bean brains !!
Liberal losers......
I agree.
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