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Snowe and Collins will both VOTE NO on the Health care bill
Snowe adn Collins Website ^ | 12/20/09 | Snowe and Collins

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 111th; collins; gophealthcare; healthcare; snowe
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To: pkmaine

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.


61 posted on 12/20/2009 5:18:08 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: pkmaine

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.


62 posted on 12/20/2009 5:18:14 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Rick Perry - TX Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 !)
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To: pkmaine

ONLY because the dimwits already have their 60.


63 posted on 12/20/2009 5:19:39 PM PST by ryan71 (TERM LIMITS)
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To: fish hawk

A pile of dog crap smells better and looks better.


64 posted on 12/20/2009 5:20:00 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Aria

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.


65 posted on 12/20/2009 5:21:31 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: Kimmers

She is a RINO of the first order—at least she did this much.


66 posted on 12/20/2009 5:24:35 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: pkmaine
useful idiot Pictures, Images and Photos
67 posted on 12/20/2009 5:25:16 PM PST by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: Aria

I don’t know even if they did if the people in Maine would vote for them.


68 posted on 12/20/2009 5:25:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: PhiKapMom
“I agree with you 100% and cannot understand the mentality that won’t give these two women credit when credit is due.”

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!

69 posted on 12/20/2009 5:25:28 PM PST by ryan71 (TERM LIMITS)
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To: Aria

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.


70 posted on 12/20/2009 5:26:58 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: pkmaine
the only Republican to vote for health reform in the Finance Committee, I deeply regret that I cannot support the pending Senate legislation

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.

71 posted on 12/20/2009 5:28:35 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Merry Christmas-wishing atheist prolifer)
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To: PhiKapMom

“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.


72 posted on 12/20/2009 5:30:34 PM PST by RatsDawg
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To: navymom1

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.


73 posted on 12/20/2009 5:32:09 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: mark3681

BINGO


74 posted on 12/20/2009 5:32:38 PM PST by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: pkmaine

BFD. The Dems have the votes. She had her chance when it was in committee and voted for it.


75 posted on 12/20/2009 5:35:48 PM PST by tips up
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To: Gay State Conservative

Huh?

RINOs are the problem. They waste our time and bend legislation to their perversion.

You need a brain transplant.


76 posted on 12/20/2009 5:36:27 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: tips up

Another falsehood. Snowe’s vote in committee had no bearing on the path forward. See post 73.


77 posted on 12/20/2009 5:37:38 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: pkmaine

These two toots were waiting to see if Democrats could pull it off without them.


78 posted on 12/20/2009 5:41:50 PM PST by pallis
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To: onyx

Yes but the last Republican governor, McKernan is Snowe’s
wife er I meant husband. He was governor from 1986-1994


79 posted on 12/20/2009 5:43:06 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

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.


80 posted on 12/20/2009 5:53:33 PM PST by onyx
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