"Snowe 'disappointed' by public option" - CNN.COM

[Curtland1015]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/26/health.care/index.html

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Snowe issued a statement Monday, saying she was "deeply disappointed" with Reid's decision on the public option. She argued that a decision in favor of a trigger "could have been the road toward achieving a broader bipartisan consensus in the Senate."

"It's unfortunate the Senate majority leader decided to take a different path, because he did say it was a pretty good doggone idea with respect to the trigger in September, so I don't what has happened to change his mind," she said later.

"It's regrettable, because I certainly have worked in good faith all of these months on a bipartisan basis and, as you know, have been standing alone at this point as a Republican to do so because I believe in good public policy," Snowe added.

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Was it, Snowe? Was it a doggone good idea? It's a shame Reid turned his back on a "broader bipartisan consensus", which apparently only meant you.

[saltpoint]

1. Not that she cares, but I'm disappointed with Senator Snowe. Her

constituents are informed, alert folks and there is considerable support, likely a strong majority, for the public option in Maine and across the country.

There were reports that the GOP threatened Snowe with loss of Committee appointments / status were she to entertain support for the public option. I would hope that is untrue, but then again, these are Republicans we're dealing with. My dark hunch is that it is true, and it appears to me that Snowe caved.

She's smarter than the people she hangs out with in Washington. She ought to have listened to her constituents instead of the fools running her party.

Shame on you, Senator.

[marmar]

2. "She's smarter than the people she hangs out with in Washington"

Or maybe she isn't. The company one keeps speaks volumes about someone.....

[saltpoint]

3. Hi, marmar. We sure could have used her out in front in this battle,

and she let us down.

I'm not saying she owes me personally to support the public option but I ordinarily give her more credit than the John Cornyns and the Tom Coburns in her party.

After this little episode, I'm a lot more skeptical.

[marmar]

4. Very true. She's definitely no John Cornyn.......

..... I don't know why she doesn't just break free and become an Independent. It's not like it would hurt her in Maine.

[saltpoint]

5. Agree. She's popular there and she could caucus with the blue team.

She might live longer hanging out with us than with the crazies and the fools.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. Her state has the second highest rate of food stamp use and they need to vote her out

She is not working working on behalf of the citizens of Maine. There's a lot of poverty in Maine. I cannot understand why Maine has 2 Republican Senators. Even if they like them, they should take a page from the Rhode Island book. RIs voted out the likeable yet ineffectual "pleasant" Lincoln Chafee and voted in the Dem Sheldon Whitehouse. Boy was that a trade up!

[saltpoint]

12. People often vote against their own best interests without much

analysis. Maine is one of 50 states, Snowe just one Senator.

Mainers have had a crack at replacing their two GOP U.S. Senators but by convincing percentages re-elected them.

[Submariner]

6. Maine represents 0.5% of the U.S. population

in a state where there are many poor, but she wants to deny her constituents, and the other 99.5% of meaningful health care reform. She is disgusting. What a dipstick. Let's hope the Mainiacs kick her ass out of Congress when she is up for re-election.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Maybe Popeye will save her!

[AndyA]

9. Good job, Olympia. Protect the insurance companies profits while your constituents DIE.

I hope she's confronted with this fact. Health insurance company profits are more important than human life. Her priorities are all screwed up. Hopefully her constituents will realize this and send her sorry ass packing. Perhaps we can get somebody who cares--someone who isn't corrupt--in that seat.

[Bucky]

10. Sigh. What a waste of a good senate seat.

[old mark]

11. She has had a reputation in the media as a "liberal republican", but I don't

recall much reason for calling her that.
Liberal in relation to Palin or that crowd, maybe....she seems like she actually can read.

I think the GOP's hopes to gain congressional seats in '10 is another of their fantasies given their dismal record and behavior since the election in '08.


mark

[Bitwit1234]

13. I think Most

of the country has been thoroughly disappointed by the obstruction tactics of the republican in this health care action..very very disappointed. In the words again of our VP Biden....WHO CARES....gee I have said that several times, maybe Biden has given us a rallying cry.