Snowe talking to Dems - Politico

[steve2470]

http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0110/Snowe_talking_to_Dems.html?showall

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Friday that she has been in conversation with Democrats and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus about a way forward on health care reform.

"I have talked with several of my Democratic colleagues, including the chairman of the Finance Committee, just sorting through these issues, and the process, and what will unfold," Snowe told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Friday afternoon. "Hopefully, will take measure of what needs to happen now, build some support, those things can happen so that it's not breathtakingly expansive that creates consternation by the American people at a time will can ill-afford intrinsic costs."

But Snowe made it very clear she could not support any form of a bill that came through the reconciliation process—a legislative move she called "wrong and untenable."

Instead, Snowe believes Congress could pass a scaled-back version of insurance reform based on measures that would aid small business, a policy stance she has held since the summer with she voted in favor of the bill that came through the Finance Committee.

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[Clio the Leo]

1. While I was glad to see her applauding the President's remarks about HCR during the SOTU...

... the names "Snowe" and "Baucus" together in the same sentence give me the heeby jeebies.

Is it time to dig up Trigger?

[thunder rising]

2. Were Bush tax cuts "wrong and untenable" These asshats think we don't know?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Didn't you get the memo?

EVERYTHING that DEMOCRATS want to do is "wrong and untenable" not to mention part of a Bolshevik/Stalinist/Hitlerian/Orwellian plot to enslave the people of this country (especially conservatives). EVERYTHING that the Republicans want to do is ALWAYS 100% great, terrific, wonderful, right, strong, and positively 100% sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows!!!! :eyes:

[neverforget]

3. Charlie Brown and the football come to mind......

[Mz Pip]

4. Talk it cheap

Pardon my cynicism but haven't the Dems been "Talking" to Olympia for months?

So what kind of deal will they have to make with her to avoid reconciliation and why should they even bother/

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Why should we care whether or not she supports reconciliation?

That's kind of the whole point of us (maybe) doing it that way, isn't it???? :shrug:

[napi21]

7. Reconciliation is intended to be used when you can't get

the 60 votes! Olympis! Nobody cares waht you think!

[bluestateguy]

6. Swell. We're going to let her cock tease us again

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me three times, that's just being a fucking idiot.

[DrToast]

8. Newsflash: Reconciliation is only necessary because of you and your party, you moron

I swear to God, the Democrats can go fuck themselves if they water down health care reform just to get her vote.

[Kokonoe]

9. I notice republicans will bend to pass the Insurance corporation law..

Whenever public options or reconciliation pops up
Some Puke wants to put their fingers in the ointment.
The reconciliation process is wrong, since Olympia Snowe must hate democracy.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. THIS Olympia Snowe??

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=429555&mesg_id=429555

[DrToast]

12. Um....no....that's a completely different person.

:shrug:

[sandnsea]

13. That's the other Maine, er, Lady

Susan Collins. Women who I used to hold in high regard.

[BrklynLiberal]

15. oops. Right State. Wrong Senator.

:blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:

Don't think either one of them is all as "moderate" they are cracked up to be..

[Lasher]

14. Any Democrat who gives her the time of day is a fool or worse.

"As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with because she had no intention of ever working anything out." Harry Reid

[grantcart]

16. She's painted herself into a very small corner

She said that she would vote for the bill if it had a trigger for the public option.

She voted for it in committee to show that she was close.

They took out the PO completely eliminating her previous objection.

Obviously she doesn't want a primary contender but I can't see how a Democrat doesn't make her look like a stooge if she doesn't vote for the bill now.

[wisteria]

17. Why oh why are we bothering with her again. She was a big waste of time before.

I am beginning to think she is part of a Republican stall tactic.