Do you agree with Sen. Snowe’s decision to support the Democrat’s health bill?

Bangor Daily News ^ | 14 Octber 2009 | Staff

[Grut]

Snowe's vote isn't all that popular in Maine, assuming these are all Maine votes.

[wbill]

I voted. I’m a Maine ex-pat.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Do I agree with the vile crone’s vote on Health Care Reform?

NO!

[not2worry]

The woman has drawn a line in the snow for herself.

That’s about all I gotta say about Mt. Olympia.

[Phlap]

It would have been more significant had a democrat voted nay.

[not2worry]

The woman has drawn a line in the snow for herself.

That’s about all I gotta say about Mt. Olympia.

[GOPsterinMA]

Watch out for yellow Snowe

[Gothmog]

While Snowe’s vote is as irksome as herself, it is not a big a cause for concern IMHO. She only voted for this version so she could vote against later versions and still campaign on the fact that she voted for healthcare reform. A useless vote for a bill which will now be rewritten, but it helps her politically.

[steelyourfaith]

Nice to see the vote is overwhelmingly against Snowe.
It appears that one must be registered to vote.

[Miss Didi]

The Friends asked her about that poll this morning...of course she dismissed it.

[dynachrome]

I am back. Thanks to AZ.44mag for filling in!

Vote under tab “opinions and poll”

http://www.bangordailynews.com/

FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!***
FRmail me if you want to be added or removed from the Fearless Poll-Freeping Freepers Ping list.
And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin’, if I miss them.
(looks like a medium volume list) (gordongekko909, founder of the pinglist, stays on the list until his ghost signs up for the list)

[dynachrome]

err, that is “comments and poll”

[pingman]

A yellow line in the snowe, at that.

[man from mars]

Dear Mrs. Snowe;
Do you think Congress should vote on bills without reading them? How about voting on bills that don’t even exist yet, except in fragments?
The Senate Finance Committee is poised to vote on a massive health care reform bill on Tuesday allegedly authored by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.). A glaring, outrageous, unreported fact is that the bill’s actual text has been kept secret. No one actually knows what’s in it – not even the senators who will be told to vote for it.
Perhaps the Nobel committee will award President Obama another prize to share with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, for “imagination in medical financing.”
Bits and pieces are leaking out, but entire sections will be added later. That’s what happened with the House version. Nobody read the bill, and 75 “phantom” amendments were added after the vote. A similar maneuver happened in the Senate when a key committee approved another version of a sweeping health care bill in July without seeing the text. Actual language was unveiled months later in September.
In short, senators will follow recent precedent and be voting on something that does not even exist yet.
Even the Congressional Budget Office, which issued a report this week saying the Baucus plan would cost under $900 billion instead of more than a trillion, was operating without actual text. When the CBO crunched the detailed, 1,018-page House version this summer, it reported that it would cost far more than President Obama claimed. Obama then broke precedent and summoned the CBO director to the White House for a “talk.” Now the CBO says the Senate bill will cost less. They think. They hope. They speculate.
What’s more, CNSNews.com reports that an aide to Sen. Harry Reid said that current debates may be irrelevant because an entirely different version might be inserted into an unrelated House tax bill, HR 1586. That’s the measure that levies a 90 percent tax on bonuses given to executives of firms that receive bailout money. Among other things, this could be a way of getting around the constitutional requirement that all tax bills originate in the House.
This type of legislative behavior makes me not support you or any other Republican in the next election. I can’t send you any more money for your campaigns or the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. I know you supported John McCain for President but John can’t support this bill either. There are other ways to reform healthcare without taking over 1/6 of the nations economy.

[DAC21]

Bingo!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

NO!!! My reasoning here: The Patriot's Flag - Snow(e)Creates Slippery Slope.

[maine yankee]

On Sept 11th 14 ‘mainers’ sat down with two staff members in Sen Snowe’s office in DC.

The meeting was arrange by ‘freedom works’. Most of us didn’t know each other. None of us were lobbyists.

It was quickly apparant these two were shocked by our knowledge of the issue and by our intensity.

They seemed genuinely surprised anybody ‘back home’ was angered by the senators actions regarding healthcare reform.

I now refer to her as ‘the sentator from DC’

PS; will be dropping off a back of ‘rock salt’ at her state office this week. We plan to ‘melt snowe’ next election.

[Grut]

FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!***

I'd just as soon we didn't: let her worry about her constituents' opinion, not blow it off as a "Freeping."

[dynachrome]

I hear ya. She would not pay attention to a no vote even if all Maine residents, anyway. She never has been a ‘pub.

[stephenjohnbanker]

82% NO. I guess ACORN has no office in Bangor ;-)