Olympia Snowe is personally responsible for the Health Care fiasco. Without her vote to get it out of committee, it would have died there. She gave Ben Nelson political cover and figured we would all forget. She knew it would pass if it got to the floor.
Benedict Arnold was not forgiven. She won’t either.
Lugar, Hatch, Corker, Snowe, and McCain..what motivates them..easy..if not this time, then definitely in 2012, the GOP will ahve the majority in the Senate, and they want a last fling as chair..and since they won’t run again after this time..they are virtually unaccountable...we have no leverage on them..