Bulls—t yourself. If Snowe hadn’t voted for cloture the bill would have died in its infancy. Once she did that, that’s when the payoffs and handjobs began to people like Bart Stupak.
You miss my point, FRiend. If there WAS an opposition party, Mrs. Snowjob wouldn’t have been ON the committee to allow the vote; if not IN the (R) party to begin. Any blow-back from that fiasco?? Nope.
Hard to vote against that which, at the time, the (R)NC\GOP(e) were busy, rushing to the cameras and news shows claiming, “But...but OUR plan...”.
Not a Constitutional basis\done in the whole friggin’ lot....’cloture’ or not. Didn’t stop SCoTUS or the Prez from re-writting\changing on the fly either.