Snowe's A No For Now, But Is She Still In Play?

Dear Sen. Snowe,

What's absurd is that you, as a member of a party that filibustered a bill that provided funding for our combat troops would dare cast aspirations on the opposing party.

This isn't your first rodeo, Ms. Snowe. You know full well that any further delay gives aid and comfort to the entrenched interests that want to kill HCR at any cost, as they have for over 50 years.

You also know that the only reason your party, the party that spread the death panel lies, has decided that it would rather be legislative terrorists than negotiate in good faith to pass the best HCR bill possible is for naked political gain.

The inescapable fact is that you are a hypocrite, just like your colleague, Susan Collins, and no amount of projecting or obfuscating can change that fact.

Merry Christmas,

Rich

We do not need Senator Snowe. Why??? She does not have any conscience. This is the same group of people that found the money for the wars but not to make people healthy. I don't understand these people. Where are they from? These people are not human beings. They are just a bunch of selfish people. They need to be voted out of office. They have their own insurance but not us the taxpayers. Forget the Republican Party.

snowe knew all along she was not voting for this bill, and obama was a fool to keep dealing with her and the rest of the gop. all they did was hold things up, which is what they wanted

Here's the problem:

A combined bill comes back to Senate from negotiations with House and it CANNOT further be amended after that process which as we know is called the "conference".

It cannot be amended upon returning to the Senate but it can be filibustered. The insurance barons (and their paid stooge, Revoltin' Joe's wife) will have lots more cracks at Revoltin' Joe until that point, and since the post-conference bill will somehow be different from what was sent to House no matter what, he can say that such difference whatever it is is a dealbreaker -- he now must filibuster owing to what we sniggeringly call his conscience.

So Snowe's vote may again be needed to break the filibuster. So it's time to such up to her again, unfortunately.

I meant to add, this way we don't need Senator Snow's vote, and she becomes irrelevant. She had her chance and blew it. Let the voters of Maine decide if she had them in mind when she said no to healthcare reform.