To the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever followed the political history of Olympia Snowe. She’s an idiot only interested in winning the approval liberals and she couldn’t stand bucking them any longer. So she, predictably, caved.
Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priority.
The Maine senator kept virtually all of Washington guessing how she would vote until she announced it late in the Senate Finance Committee debate Tuesday. Until then, she told reporters, she had not even let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in on her secret. She told her colleagues: “When history calls, history calls,” even though she had some criticism of the bill.
So it’s all about making history. You know what else made history? The Holocaust. Just because something will make history doesn’t make it the right thing to do. She’s a moron whose goal in life is to have the editorial page of the New York Times approve of her actions. She thinks it’s all about getting a pat on the back from George Soros and a thank you from Michael Moore. Snowe simply can’t stand to have liberals despise her for opposing their agenda. So she buckled.
Anyway, this isn’t the end. Hardly. Now the Baucus bill will have to be reconciled with the significantly more liberal version from the Senate before moving on the House, where the majority of Democrats won’t support legislation that doesn’t entirely socialize the health care system. As the saying goes, we have not yet begun to fight.
by Stephan Tawney on Tue, Oct 13, 2009