Posted on 12/20/2009 3:59:30 PM PST by pkmaine
December 20, 2009
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) released the following statement today on the status of the health reform legislation currently pending before the United States Senate: “Having been fully immersed in this issue for this entire year and as the only Republican to vote for health reform in the Finance Committee, I deeply regret that I cannot support the pending Senate legislation as it currently stands, given my continued concerns with the measure and an artificial and arbitrary deadline of completing the bill before Christmas that is shortchanging the process on this monumental and trans-generational effort.
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Matters not. The Dems don’t need them. I’m a cynic and believe their vote would be different if there were one or two dissenting Dems.
You are right about the lie about moderate Dems — they are none in the Senate. I too will take a moderate Republican any day over a Dem from Maine.
I have a lot of respect for Olympia Snowe after watching her handle the BRAC. One of the best presentations I have seen along with the one from Sen Thune on Ellsworth AFB. The two of them had done their homework. Snowe and Thune got their bases removed from the BRAC list as they were right in the fact that DoD had not followed the rules when putting them on the BRAC list.
ONLY because the dimwits already have their 60.
A pile of dog crap smells better and looks better.
Exactly. They could have stopped this from getting this far.
But they chose not to. If they vote no now, doesn’t matter. Only because of them it got this far to start with. We will not forget.
She is a RINO of the first order—at least she did this much.
I don’t know even if they did if the people in Maine would vote for them.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while.
If we had real conservatives in their positions you would have had to write all that to defend them.
What's that? We can't elect conservatives in Maine? Then we need to make the “clammas” wake up!
Does anybody EVER read other threads or bother to remain abreast of the facts?
First, I have reported for two weeks that Snowe and Collins would vote NO on cloture and on final passage.
Second, Snowe told McConnell that she would NOT be Reid’s 60th vote, even if the bill improved.
Third, we have learned that a RINO is still better than a Blue Dog.
Fourth, Snowe’s vote in Finance Committee had no bearing whatsoever on advancing the bill. Baucus did not need her vote to get it thru committee. That is a fact.
Fifth, it is critical that Snowe and Collins vote NO on this monstrosity, because that means the RATS will not have the patina of bipartisanship AND the RATS will OWN the disaster. Every RAT will be featured as the critical deciding vote in both 2010 and 2012.
There is much to criticize Snowe and Collins over the years. This is not one of those occasions.
My response is the same as it is to those who are "personally opposed" to abortion but who support "the right to choose"--you're an enabler, so your protests are meaningless, since you allowed this disgrace to happen.
“Susan Collins are ALWAYS there for our military.”
I remember watching the late night filibuster a few years ago on the Iraq war, when the Democrats wanted to defund it. If I recall Collins was standing along side the Democrats.
That is a lie. The committee vote was 16-11 or something like that. Baucus did NOT need Snowe’s vote because the RATS have a 15-12 advantage or something like that.
BINGO
BFD. The Dems have the votes. She had her chance when it was in committee and voted for it.
Huh?
RINOs are the problem. They waste our time and bend legislation to their perversion.
You need a brain transplant.
Another falsehood. Snowe’s vote in committee had no bearing on the path forward. See post 73.
These two toots were waiting to see if Democrats could pull it off without them.
Yes but the last Republican governor, McKernan is Snowe’s
wife er I meant husband. He was governor from 1986-1994
Oh my goodness. Snowe’s husband is a politician too?
I guess I wasn’t clear anyway. I was trying to address Rhode Island politics when I asked about the retired Republican governors.
But, now that I have you here, William Cohen less liberal than Snowe or Collins? I recall not liking him very much, but I know he was pretty good on national defense and military issues. I’m thinking Maine’s demographics have changed since his days. I have a surgeon friend who’s a Maine native and she tells me there’s been a lot of people moving in from Massachusetts and other states and that they’re bringing their liberal politics with them.
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