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Another GOP senator open to health care overhaul
Yahoo News ^ | Oct 14, 2009 | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

Posted on 10/14/2009 8:09:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz

WASHINGTON – A second Republican senator signaled Wednesday she's open to voting for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting President Barack Obama closer to a historic achievement that has eluded generations of Democratic leaders.

But Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told The Associated Press that the bill approved Tuesday by the Finance Committee needs substantial improvements to make coverage more affordable, contain costs, and protect Medicare. Nevertheless, she joined her Maine GOP colleague Sen. Olympia Snowe in endorsing the goal of far-reaching changes.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; americanpolitburo; asocialistamerica; bhohealthcare; collins; congress; healthcare; maine; obamacare; rino; rinofascism; socialism; socializedmedicine; susancollins
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To: Lazamataz
Another nail in the coffin of formerly free, capitalist, free enterprise, USA. What a tragedy. Bush f__ks up for 8 years & destroys the Republican party, and we end up with socialist-fascist-commie pig 0bozo and an overwhelming demoRAT house & senate. 0boz0 is destroying & bankrupting Amerika left & right.
70% of Americans are opposed to gubmint takeover of health care. 84% of Americans are happy & satisfied with the health care plans. Millions of people come out in TEA parties & town hall meeting to make our voice known. Two libturd RINO senators Collins & Snowe now betray the people that put them in office. And in the end, the commie pigs in Congress & 0boz0 will slam this POS health care debacle down our throats, and followed soon thereafter by Crap & Tax. What a sorry demise for our once proud & free & democratic republic, the USA. Unbelieveable. I hate every one of these bastards mentioned above. Where are the states that I thought would be seceding over this??? We need a revolution now more than ever. For the 18th million time, I am shaking my head in utter disbelief over what has befallen our nation.
121 posted on 10/14/2009 4:18:56 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

In Oregon, conservatives occassionally win in statewide elections. Most of the state is actually conservative. Unfortunately, Portland and Eugene the two liberal bastions generally turn out enough ballots to barely tip the elections to the democrats. However, the elections are generally very close. We actually tend to be moderately conservative on statewide ballot measures and such.


122 posted on 10/14/2009 4:40:01 PM PDT by dschapin
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To: dschapin

It seems that sea water makes for liberalism.....weird huh?


123 posted on 10/14/2009 4:52:05 PM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Lazamataz
don’t forget vermont and taxachusetts!
124 posted on 10/14/2009 5:05:06 PM PDT by mrsixpack36
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To: Lazamataz

Susie and Pipi -—The go to girls of the dems.


125 posted on 10/14/2009 5:40:18 PM PDT by eleni121 (For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: Lazamataz

No, just la and sf.


126 posted on 10/14/2009 6:31:02 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: dschapin

Oregon has always had Eugene and Portland to contend with, but they remained a fairly moderate state. Just in 2000, Bush only lost by a few thousand votes and it took 10 days to determine the final outcome. In 2004, Kerry won by 8 points. In 2008, Obama won by 13.

The influx of Californians fleeing the mess they’ve created is killing Oregon. It’s trended harder to the left in the last decade than any state in the country. I have family in southern Oregon (Roseburg area), which was always solidly conservative. Not so much anymore. It’s a shame, I love the place, but I don’t see any way of reversing its current course. Leftism attacks these states like stage 4 cancer... it’s nearly impossible to stop once it takes over.


127 posted on 10/14/2009 6:49:01 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Lazamataz

Of course the GOP is open.

Party of “no”? I wish.


128 posted on 10/14/2009 6:59:53 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: BulletBobCo
Collins and Snowe...tag team butt carpet munch buddies.

there....fixed it.

129 posted on 10/14/2009 7:14:38 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: toast
At least the third leg of the triad (Arlen Specter) already changed sides.

please to leave ‘The Sphincter's’ third leg out of polite discourse....

130 posted on 10/14/2009 7:16:44 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: b4its2late

Someone wave a 20 dollar bill in front of them?
Everyone, it is said, have their price.
For RINO’s to support the other side, it is cheap.


131 posted on 10/14/2009 8:33:30 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The German High Command sent Lenin to destabilize Russia. Who sent Obama?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Except he won’t be “fighting” per se. He’ll be floating or swishing to the mics....


132 posted on 10/15/2009 5:10:42 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Thanks very much for that description of Maine and why people vote the way they do. I’ve witnessed a lot of the rural poverty you described. As for the Massachusetts infection, NH suffers from that as well. Sometimes Vermont uses the Massachusetts infection excuse too but I suspect their problems come more from NY than from Mass.


133 posted on 10/15/2009 5:12:30 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: TheWriterTX

You’re right, there are plenty of women with conservative values. Probably more women than not. I saw their reaction to Sarah Palin. My wife and also my sister were both very impressed with her.

But I still think that more women are pro gov’t health care than men, but not necessarily liberal.

Although my wife is conservative, our 23 year old son is un-insured and cannot afford insurance, and it worries her more than it worries me, and I think that’s the case in most families. She wouldn’t approve of a gov’t plan, but I think a lot of mothers do.

I think what’s needed is health insurance reform, not gov’t run health care.


134 posted on 10/15/2009 5:46:15 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: MichiganConservative

Ha !

“Tryannical”.

No, I didn’t mean like Pelosi. I don’t think most women are like her.


135 posted on 10/15/2009 6:12:39 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan
Dear Frenchtown:

I'll conceed that when it comes to our babies, loving mothers tend to think "survival first" and everything else later. Not all women are loving mothers, but a great many are; we would willingly go to great lengths without question or pause for the sake of our children.

When the argument is framed in terms of a greater good or heroic ideal, however, most loving mothers will come down on the side of that ideal. Freedom versus beaurocracy, choice and care versus death panels, etc.

If we want to reach women, we have to speak to their heart. When it comes to their children, that is where their heart is.

136 posted on 10/15/2009 6:52:40 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (I am a Declarationist!)
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To: Lazamataz

I’m sorry for snowe and Collins. But hey the way to remedy the madness is for all the conservatives in maine to move to NH. We can salvage the state and get two conservative senators.


137 posted on 10/15/2009 7:30:29 AM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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