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Snowe went ‘back and forth’ till end
Boston Globe ^ | 10/14/09 | Lisa Wangsness and Susan Milligan

Posted on 10/13/2009 11:29:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker

WASHINGTON - Nobody knew for sure what Senator Olympia J. Snowe would do yesterday when the Finance Committee gathered to vote on its health care bill - not even Snowe.

Chairman Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, had been courting her vote for months, investing long hours in closed-door negotiations with her and the other members of the “Gang of Six.’’ In the late summer and early fall, President Obama spoke with her on the phone and invited her to the White House to address her concerns.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 111th; bill; care; financecommittee; health; healthcare; maine; obamacare; snowe
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To: BigSkyFreeper

lol


21 posted on 10/14/2009 12:22:05 AM PDT by dennisw (Ir's not the Wheel, It's the Carousel)
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To: LibWhacker

I wish McConnell would do his damn job and yank her fanny off the Finance Committee, once and for all.

She is taking up one of the few Republican seats.


22 posted on 10/14/2009 12:25:27 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: LibWhacker

It shouldn’t have been an anguishing decision process. When is Mikey going to have “the talk” with her and cut off all support?


23 posted on 10/14/2009 12:38:11 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: LibWhacker

BS. She made up her mind on this one weeks or months ago. She and Lindsey, among a bunch of others, love the DC cocktail curcuit much more than dealing with the commoners.


24 posted on 10/14/2009 12:38:53 AM PDT by mapmaker77
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To: LibWhacker

“Nobody knew for sure what Senator Olympia J. Snowe would do yesterday”

Oh, BS. We ALL knew what she would do. EVERYBODY knew what she would do. Same thing she ALWAYS does.
Who in the world ever thought she would do anything different THIS time?
Gahh! I HATE these people.


25 posted on 10/14/2009 12:40:05 AM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: LibWhacker
Snicker.

Gag.

Whom do they expect to actually believe this bilge?

She will vote, and possibly be a sponsor for Cap and Trade.
She will vote, and possibly be a sponsor for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
She will vote, and take cover under the Burqa of "Fiscal Responsibility" for a VAT when the plan comes up woefully short of funds in the second or third year of its actual implementation.

Each time, she will "wrestle" with her magnificent conscience. But each time, she will hear "history calling."

26 posted on 10/14/2009 12:46:14 AM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: Just A Nobody

Now she needs to pull an “Arlene Sphincter”

If she did, they would treat her just like they did him,
her usefulness would be over.

The term “useful idiot” springs to mind.


27 posted on 10/14/2009 1:18:39 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Say listen, if we drop kick her, will you let us know if we overshoot Germany? I’ve got five dollars on it. ;-)


28 posted on 10/14/2009 1:24:34 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: LibWhacker

What bull...She was waiting till the last minute to see who would make the highest offer for her butthole/vote...Well the auction closed. We know who bought her...and we know the new option for her next Deathcare vote will have a much higher price to the purchaser.


29 posted on 10/14/2009 1:43:28 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: ElkGroveDan

It was just a matter of negotiating the price.


30 posted on 10/14/2009 1:44:21 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: LibWhacker

Leaves a bad taste...for Maine Lobster.


31 posted on 10/14/2009 1:46:16 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: roses of sharon

Is that the gallow in Fort Smith?


32 posted on 10/14/2009 2:04:26 AM PDT by DH (The government writes no bill that does not line the pockets of special interests.)
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To: LibWhacker

do i screw the country or not....she had a tough decision.


33 posted on 10/14/2009 2:06:45 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: LibWhacker

34 posted on 10/14/2009 2:11:20 AM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: LibWhacker
Snowe:

Like the old saying goes, "Screw her and the horse she rode in on".

The new question is: How can you tell which one do you do first, to get her first?

35 posted on 10/14/2009 2:12:53 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Sarah Palin forever!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

And the bill is now “bi partisan”. I can’t stand that word and anyone who uses it. See my tag line.


36 posted on 10/14/2009 2:16:28 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I hate all politicians, including republicans.)
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To: LibWhacker

I’ll just bet she thinks her vote will make the democrats pay attention to her concerns, stupid woman that she is.


37 posted on 10/14/2009 2:24:53 AM PDT by elizabethgrace (I pray for our military, our Republic, Bibi and Israel.)
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To: LibWhacker
Nobody knew for sure what Senator Olympia J. Snowe would do yesterday when the Finance Committee gathered to vote on its health care bill - not even Snowe.

Au contraire. There and tens of thousands of people who knew EXACTLY how the RINO B*tch would vote and all anyone had to do was to ask any of us Freepers!

38 posted on 10/14/2009 2:37:44 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: LibWhacker
"...Nobody knew for sure what Senator Olympia J. Snowe would do yesterday when the Finance Committee gathered to vote on its health care bill..."

Gee. WE knew exactly what she was going to do from day one.

39 posted on 10/14/2009 2:59:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: LibWhacker

And this leader less Republican party will do absolutely nothing to punish this piece of dog meat.
She should be drug down Portland streets behind an elephant wearing a donkeys outfit.


40 posted on 10/14/2009 3:00:07 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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