EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Gibson’s Interview With Sen. Olympia Snowe

Olympia Snowe is a nut!

Hopefully this vote will be the death knell to her political career. She’s been a sellout on too many ocassions!

rino

these clowns like snowe, spector, graham are the reason why i am no longer a republican.

Actually, she is not alone. There are plenty of Republicans who can’t be stereotyped by the Obamaganda of the far left and their friends in the media. I, for one, applaud the bravery of Olympia Snowe. However, I am still 100% opposed to this ridiculous legislation as it stands. It is hastily created and still will penalize Americans for not adhering to a new, Big Brother health care system. I am counting the days until 2012. Obama needs a pink slip!

You have got to be kidding me. Different day, same lies!!!

Jeez. Thanks Olympia Snowe. What a sellout. Obamunism is alive and well by 1 vote.

weak!!!

You people all need therapy. Maybe you’ll get it with Obama’s health plan.

Wish she’d move to the jackass party like her buddy Specter did. The GOP could use a few less democrats in republican clothing.

Another idiot – the media will make her a hero standing up to her party when in fact she is just another pol. The real heroes are the ones standing up to the OBAMA fascistas. But the media, especially ABC, NBC and CBS slant it all the Dem’s way and have been doing so for decades. Snow = another brainwashed idiot.

One of the many that will be voted out next election. Welcome to the unemployment line honey.

She needs attention…that’s all.
Now open your wallets.

Great – now we can get the public option put back in by Congress – and get it passed in the Senate with 51 Democratic votes thru Reconcilation. Most Republicans politicians are traitors to middle class AMERICANS – these politicians line their pockets with health care industry corporate lobbyists/donations – at least one Republican cares about lower and middle class Americans and getting them affordable, quality health care INSURANCE so 120 don’t die each and everyday in this country because they don’t have and can’t AFFORD health insurance!!!!

Yet another Republican who just doesn’t get it. Government has CAUSED all our problems. And this is a smokescreen for the destruction of our Constitution. “Fundamental Change” is due for the GOP, not our capitalist, Judeo Christian founded Republic. Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, John Voinovich must be defeated. Stand up for the constitution, not the elite liberal beltway establishment. OUT WITH YOU!

At least Snowe is from a relatively liberal state. Maybe we can’t do any better in Maine. I’d be ok if the Repubs boot her off the Committee and assign her to the Subcommittee on Widgets and Pixie Dust.
But Graham represents South Carolina. What’s up with that? He needs a major boot out of the Senate but year after year he shows up and sells us down the drain. Last few years it was Amnesty. Now it’s Cap and Trade. South Carolina? South Carolina? Hello?

Look up rino in the dictionary and there is traiter snowe. What a sellout hack. Yes this is a start you buffoon, the start of the end to your career and of America’s citizens being free from govco control. When is jezabel up for re-election?

Oh wow, I’m shocked that Gibson actually knows what’s going on. Then again, it’s a Republican voting against her party and her constituents, so he is going to pay attention. Unlike the ACORN story that he didn’t know anything about or the 9/12 movement because he was too busy sailing.
I don’t know who is worse – media or our so-called representatives.

The spirit of “bipartisanship” lives!
Time to flush the RINOs with extreme prejudice.
What kind of nutcase votes to enact huge new taxes and sets up trade barriers in the middle of a DEPRESSION?
Oh, I know, Herbert Hoover, that’s who.
Thank you, Ms. Snow. May you be voted out of office at the next opportunity.

Dems, beware of Greeks bearing gifts, she is Greek, and it will NEVER pass the full Senate, despite this RINOs vote!

She has more character in her sweat than any other republican has in their whole body. You can see she is trying to do what she was elected for TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY and not big business like the rest of the common butt republicans. If they can’t make a mint off something they pass it by. It is a shame there is not a re-call rule where the whole darn country cant’ vote one of those buttholes out and send them to a desert island to rot.

SNOWE YOU BETRAY US ALL!!!! TRAITOR!

Sen. Snowe has voted for EVERY piece of legislation this Congress has managed to jam through so I think she should be honest to her constituency and switch parties. Furthermore, she should repay every dime she ever dishonestly collected from the RNC.

This woman is an absolute menace to our country. as well as a total bow wow

Traitor traitor traitor! Along with Byrdman, Reid, Rockefeller et al.!!!

she can kiss her job goodbye.

The northern moderates and fake Republicans are the ones that voted for John McCain during the campaign; he has never been a true conservative.

Yep, the good ol’ boys club in action sticking together again to help the American people…what a joke…how about listening to the opinions of us as above instead of your greed. That is all it is…you know it just as I do, but at least I admit it. I have no job, so good luck in collecting anything from me for any of your so called health reform…but that is what you want, to deprive people just as you did with the failed economy so we wouldn’t get the choice…choice and fredom go together therefore, we just lost another freedom, instead will gain death, speaking of, mine is coming in a matter of time and I refuse to pay anything more to contribute to it especially now that I just heard about how Cedar Sinai screwed up in overdosing pts with radiation from their cat scans! Goes to show Ya! I think it is all done on purpose to screw people up for yet more money to fill the gov’ts and ins. greedy pockets. As long as I remain here, I welcome you to try and get into my empty pockets and then put a tax on me! Do the math, you can’t take nothing from nothing!

What amazes me is that she is a Repo at all…..she is very much to the left in her beliefs and she represents probably the most left wing state in the country.
Why does she bother to even be a republican is what I want to know. And her dumb vote for obamacare will not cost her her seat in the senate because her peeps will love her for it. Even so, why is she a republican?

What a dimwit.

ll, I am not of the “good ole boy’s club”

Senator Olympia Snowe(D), -Maine
A very cold day indeed!

Her and Collins are simply disgusting!

who gave her kool-aid?

O well, another day another bought politician. I am getting tired of this battle. There is no reason why this is still going on when the people who elect these people are obviously against this bill. The fix must be in, “vote for this bill and POTUS will assure your reelection” must be at the top of the memo.
God, please, Bless America!

WHO CARES! In less than 70 years everyone who posted here will probably not be on this earth anyway! AGAIN..who cares, it is what it is!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

$829 billion? Why is everyone whining, the Fed can print that up in a day or two.
This plan to destroy the dollar and force Americnas to rely on the government for their every (meger) need is working out just as I have forseen!
You weak minded partisan lemings have fallen into my trap, your powers are no match for my mastery of the Dark Side.
Darth-Berry and I will rule the Marxist empire together!

New Primary target #1 in the 2012 – Olympia Snowe. No more voting for RINOs, choosing the lesser of two evils.

WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? He wouldn’t vote anyway! Because in the end it reallY does not matter anymore! This world is already in a mess that cannot be cleaned up, not by OBAMA THE ALMIGHTY or anyone…good luck trying, it all sucks now anyway..AND YOU ALL KNOW IT! WHO CARES!!

What is so disconcerting is that the entire states of New England (that’s where they should go BTW) would fit in one of our plains states!

Come on people this is america!
whats wrong with insuring illegal aliens and people who dont care to work.
work longer hours and pay up.
trust BaraCK

Welcome to the poster child of incompetant politicians. She has more waffles than the Waffle House. Actually I have more respect for the hard working employees of the Waffle House who are going to have to collect thousands of dollars more in tips per person to pay for the free health care for illegal immigrants. “Move the debate forward”? How about “increase the lies until we fool the public long enough to pass it”. This is not about health care. This is not about the common good. The Senate is willing to lie to our faces to grab power. For what? Enjoy your ride while you can Senator Snowe. You have rejected the voice of the American people to lick the boots of Marxism. Recall elections now!

legislation to compel them to live up to their
standard. This is a take over power grab
and insane vote her out MAINE

Senator Snowe,
Please stop the disgraceful side show that is your style of politics. You are not a Republican. Please follow you disgraced colleague in the Senate, Specter. You don’t care about “conservative” principals only VOTES…
Please Maine…vote out this Senator. She is a joke!!
What PAC can I contribute to help get you out!!

Great, well when she’s voted off the island, she can feed at the government run pig trough like everyone else who’s voice was unheard by their “elected” official.
“when history calls, history calls?”
We need a congress that represents it’s people – not lining their own pockets and stoking their vanity.

“Just crazy not to want reform.” Steve if you get sick take care of yourself, or do you want the gobermint nurse to visit you, I think so.

Snowe is a loser.

No wonder so many conservatives are abandoning the Republican party! Ms. Snow is not only a disgrace to the Republican party, she is a disgrace to women.
May the Bird of Life take a crap on her head, and may she lose her job—SOON.

To think I wasted all those years in the military defending idiots like this…what an absolute waste of human flesh!

Let’s see how popular she is with Obama when more Republicans are voted in next fall. Cinderella will be back to being an ugly step sister.

Kudos to Senator Snowe for being non-partisan. We need more of that from both sides of the aisle.

Like San Fran Gran Nan – this one is also too stupid and too nutty to be in the Senate. But with the rest of them, I guess she is par for the course. What an embarrassment – what a disgrace….

ONLY A WOMAN COULD STAND UP TO THE GOP LOONS AND RUSH L.!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

She is a good senator who represents Maine values. We are sick of silly bipartisan that makes it so nothing truly gets done.(hence our former Independent governor) She is one of the only republicans to engage in an adult conversation about what to do with health care.. Because no matter how you view this issue, our healthcare system is heading for failure and needs to be changed. The debate is how, and she is being mature and joining the conversation instead of spouting silly rhetoric. Stop calling her a traitor and try to bring a mature conversation to light, like she did…

Good for you, Snowe. An intelligent woman who understands the issues at hand rather than ignorantly following blind. Wish more Republicans would take the route less corrupt…
*clap, clap* Snowe, you’re a refreshing voice in this otherwise polarized world. Take care.

I sent her an e-mail telling her if she voted for this bill, that this would be the end of her career. She should start looking for a JOB! She has betrayed her own party.

She should just become a Dem.

Red States below the Mason Dixion line time to Secede

It’s about time one of the GOP finally decided to give up the facade and actually work toward something instead of just numbly refusing to do anything constructive. Health Insurance companies pay big campaign money to senators… period… that is the only reasoning the republicans understand. They are the true sellouts, they sold this countries middle class and poor to Wall St just to line their pockets and stay in office a long time ago!

This woman is not qualified to be a human being! This is a great argument for procreation and birth control. She has not one once of moral decency or honesty – her only agenda is to bankrupt the American people that made this nation great – every single American except herself and her Liberal friends. How is it the Liberals want to spend OPM (other people’s money) but keep theirs safe? I wonder if she will opt out of the public health care and stay on the premier insurance that the government provides to all their employees, presidents, senators and congress men. We cannot afford RINO’s like her in office. Vote her out in 2010.

This fool is what is wrong with the GOP!The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BETTER NOT FORCE PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO DO!If they pass this monstrosity, there is going to be HELl to pay!

Maybe ACORN will hire her to count votes!

Please Please
Can some make sure she does not get elected again.
Also please send enough protesters to her office.

Did anyone see the jobs section? Snowe’s looking for it!

Very nice to see a petriotic Republican that is willing to put politics aside to do something good for her countrymen. All other Republicans prepare yourselves for a good old behind the barn ass whopping in 2012. Repubs made no attempt to pass any kind of healthcare reform under George Bush. They basically did nothing but got us involved in this illegitimate war which is destroying our economy. Republican Senators today proved that they are not in favor of doing anything to help Americans. They totally screwed up the country during the Bush administration and are currently doing any and everything in their power to prevent Obama from accomplishing his goals. The American public is definitely watching the performance of the Republican party.

With all due respect Ms. Snowe, please call Arlen’s office and request some coordinates. You are embarrassing yourself, your party and the American people. If your educated vote for the failed stimulus wasn’t bad enough now you have used this same decision making process being the only Republican to vote for this healthcare monstrosity that I’m quite sure will usher you out.
Let me ask you Ms. Snowe? What is “This is my decision today which it may not be tomorrow” mean exactly? Sounds like a position of liberal conviction not unlike President Obama.
Also, please allow me to clarify a statement you made, ‘My Party Drifted Away from Me’? No Ms. Snowe and you have this level narcissism to think that 100 million folks changed overnight and left you abandoned? You just don’t seem to get it much less understand it so please, do us all a favor and merely switch parties. You are a Democrat Mamm, maybe not in Maine but in the rest of this once and will be again great country as you will experience in 2010. You have made a decision today that affects not only the folks you say you represent but the entire conservative electorate. Ms. Snowe, you do not represent me or the 100 million other folks that will now support your departure. Oh and on a side note. Since you want to triple tax your own constituency with Obama’s policies where are the jobs that will pay this tax revenue Ms. Snowe? Oh, you haven’t thought about that? Figures, now follow Charlie “ACORN Who?” Gibson into retirement…
Regardless you’re gone….
Good Evening,
Ms. Ferrer

Olympia Snowe has never been anything but a rino, I wish she’d just cross over the isle and become a certified jackass, like her pal Arlen Specter did. What a loser.

Hey be happy! The faster we hit bottom the faster we can come up. This is what the people wanted BHO made no secret about who he was/is. If you want the left to be vanquished then let them pass everything they want. When UE is 30% milk is $5 and gas $10 along with gold edging toward 2-3k along with rampant crime and tent cities then “change” will really arrive. Whee! This is going to be fun!

A lowdown dirty shame, I knew all long she was swolf in sheep clothing. Run her sorry tail out…

Drum her out of the party…

Is there a constitutional provision that provides for a recall for US the clawns in the US Senate and the US congres? It is about time we recall all these clawns including Obama the lead socialist.

How nice of you to throw a few softballs to Snow. From the same network that brought you absolutely no idea what happened to ACORN long after it broke. Way to go ABC.

Doesn’t anyone have common sense anymore. If you force insurance to take pre-existing conditions and allow people to wait until they are sick to get insurance then of course the premiums are going to go way up. The only other choice is forcing everyone to buy insurance and that’s anti choice and un-american. Lets work on getting the poor americans without insurance insured. Give tax breaks etc, but don’t mess up the whole system for those who are happy with it.

The government is full of loons… Flush the congress 2010, 2012 2014!

Ms. Snowe, why don’t you walk across the isle and stay there with your comrades?

Kick them ALL out and start fresh.

In an argument, when neither side can find common ground, isn’t that a clue that the argument is flawed? Dems insist on the Socialist, State-controlled route. The Repubs insist on fixing faults. Like waste, fraud and the abuse of medical malpractice lawsuits.
The first is dangerous. The second will never happen.
In such a situation, perhsps the problem should be attacked from another angle. Don’t insure everything, from hang-nails to broken arms to eczema. Insure only catastrophic illnesses, and charge insurance as you would home insurance. In other words, don’t turn health insurance, or medical care reform, into the tail that wags the dog.
Is that so difficult to understand? Or is it so simple that only us plebs get it?
(Not trick questions)

First, I am a conservative. Second, I applaud Ms. Snowe.
Get with it! She has opened the door for dialogue. She has established an exit plan if the tone doesn’t match the goal. I think it was very brave and wise, in one.
The ‘One’ who was to bring us together, has divided us in two. As a country,and as a party. The absence of leadership is apparent.
It is not time to denigrate. It just may be time to rejoice.
This short nine months are but a preview of coming attractions. We must be smart, find a leader who has strength of character, a respect for our heritage as a country, is smart enough to pick a strong cabinet and wise enough to listen. I go on…but in the end s/he should love America and want to do everything to ensure her prosperity.
We are on a long road back. We need to use the time well. Instead of, No. Leading the discussion must be the way forward to our future. And, in this I applaud Ms. Snowe.

Democrats have had complete control of Congress for almost 3 years.
How do you like what they’ve done with the economy so far?

I am a Republican from Maine, Olympia Snowe has never lost an election and never will. This vote has zero impact on her negatively, in fact, it helps her because Maine is basically a Democratic State. So for all of those Republicans who are mad at her, vent all you want, but Senator Snowe is not going anywhere, she is a Senator for as long as she continues to have the desire to hold the office.

Somebody said something about leaving the Union. Another person wanted conservatives to leave quickly.
Another person said something about a rope. I hope ABC Monitor will edit that one about the rope.
People need to calm down. This bill will be presented to the senate after Reid puts his mark on it.
If it turns out successful, then great.
If it turns out to be a nightmare, then we know what to do: vote them out.
ONE THING PEOPLE NEED TO BE RILED UP OVER: Our senators cannot receive huge contributions from the banking/financing industries and also from the health care industries AND ALSO do their job.
The senators’ pat answer is this:
“I can do my job and receive contributions from these industries.”
Apparently, no, they can’t.
That’s the thing we all need to focus on. We are really missing the boat on this one.

Please join me in pledging to look up whoever runs against Snowe in the primary and send the best alternative candidate $$$.

She has NO WISDOM. She sold us out. We are on our own now. We need to band together and vote one another in office.
1. America is the Greatest nation on Earth.
2. Pull out of the UN.
3. Ditch the Federal Reserve.
4. Teach the Bible in schools again.
5. More indeed

A straw really does show which way the wind is blowing. The ponderous, unwanted and abominable healthcare takeover bill – crafted by this confederacy of dunces – is a great example of what happens when you put ineffective bureaucrats in charge of anything more complicated than a tomatoe garden. Washington is just the place where an apprenticeship to the ci-devant politics of banner waving leftist idiots can lead to Snowism.

Hollywood. Along with National-Rejects. She belongs there.

If it looks like a democrat, votes like a democrat…shes a democrat! ask spector.

You, who are supporting this “reform”, are the **crazy** ones.
If you have employer coverage now…you won’t within a couple of years after the passage of this bill…no question about it.
Your employers aren’t going to pay your premiums, after being jacked up by 40% for offering it’s employees the “Cadillac plans”. (any plan that pays for EKGs or CAT scans…or offers vision or dental are considered “Cadillac plans”)
Which choice makes more sense to an employer looking at this health care plan…paying so much extra for each employee’s health care, that you have to let some go to afford it?..
…Or, paying a $1000 fine per employee, and just saying “Screw it”, and not having to worry about providing health insurance for your employees?
If you picked the first choice, you are an idiot

I will dontae $$$ to anyone who runs against her, Dem or Repub. Enough of her!!! Vote her out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are a disgrace to the party and your country………ill send $$$ to anyone who will run against you……go home!

Bushtheidiot, this punishes you also. You will be a slave to the elite too dumba$$. Better vote for someone with character. Bush was still far better than BO.

Is it just me or does she bear a striking resemblance to Arlen Spectre?

TruthBTold needs to get its facts straight.

C’mon people, she is, was, and always will be a RINO (Repub. in name only). The only surprise would have been if she hadn’t voted for it. Of course, everyone will trot her out as the “bipartisan” proof that this t^rd doesn’t smell

Sadly, she is doing exactly what the socialist majority in Maine wants. She will be re-elected. She’s a repub, but no conservitive.

she’s just voted herself a ticket out of public office.

Hey Look! A Senator who voted in her constituents interests. What a novel idea.

Just another donkey-in-an-elephant-suit, along with McCain, Graham, Crist, and Martinez. This is why the Democrats don’t have to worry about 2010. The stench in the GOP is quite willing to head to the same destination they’re rushing towards. The GOP just thinks we should get there a little slower. Don’t be too surprised at the upcoming Major Unpleasantness…

Snowe will be so overwhelmingly popular in the state of Maine after this vote today. I predict that no other Repub is going to want to compete against her for her reelection. Democrats, put your dollar into Snowe’s campaign and help to reelect a Senator that’s good for America.

I wonder what she got to sell out to the communists/fascists? Cush lobbying job after Congress? Chairmanship of a powerful committee? Maybe somebody gave her some wonderful campaign cash! She can keep that and then use it after she retires — I so admire our principled legislators.

She’s not alone. She’s among friends. They’re known as Democrats. Remember the Maine…………….

Ok. This bill will never see the light of day. It’s irrelevant. It was going to passed anyway since there were 12 Dems vs. 10 Repubs on the committee. So, what did Snowe gain? What was promised to her and how did she hope to benefit from being cast as a traitor to the party? Very confusing.

political suicide bye bye

what a sorry old sell out bag. Her and lindsey graham. With republicans like these who needs socialists.

Ms Snowe has signed her own Political Obituary. As a Republican, I shall be supporting her Democratic opponent in the next general election. There’s little point in having a Republican representing Maine if you can;t count on her vote on important issues.

Anyone on Medicare will see their premiums increased,and services cut to support 20 million undocumented possible terrorist aliens.
Welcome to Obama World.

Anyone who can pay 100% out of pocket for their insurance, and still be in favor of this bill, either
1) has enough money to not worry about the 40% fee for having better coverage than others
(which makes you a jerk for being in favor of raising the premiums of working-class people who are on employer-based health plans
2) understands that all of this has absolutely nothing to do with health care–and everything to do with the government taking control over as much of our lives as possible…and that’s A-OK by you.
or…
3)is just lying

She obviously thinks that plastic surgery is involved in the health plan. What a poor excuse for a Republican, what a poor excuse for a Senator, what a poor excuse for a human being. Vote her out!!!

“TRAITER!!!!!!”
ROFL, this says it all. L2Spell.
Thank you, Senator Snowe, for not being an idiot.

Traitor! Worthless. Hope the good people of Maine vote you out first chance. Move to Cuba.

I will be donating money to anyone running against her.

I had a busy day today, I called my Senators and Representatative to ask some questions about the Health Care bill.
Both of my Senators and my Representative said that could not tell me anything because they did not have the bill available to read, because the bill was not yet finished.
So I called, (armed with questions) Senator Max Baucus’s (the guy who’s supposedly writing the bill) office to get some answers. Senator Baucus’s staffer informed me that the bill was indeed still being revised.
Yet, this afternoon, the Senate Finance Committee voted on and passed the bill. Now I have to wonder, if the members of the congressmens staff are correct and the bill is not complete, what are the Senators in the Finance Committee really voting on?
Also, why, if the bill is not complete, why are they voting on it?
The appearance is that the Obama Administration is pushing this incomplete bill through as fast as possible, even at the risk of getting it wrong.
If there is a need for heatlhcare reform, shouldn’t congress be trying to get it right? Not just get it done?

Snowe doesn’t know what she wants. Her vote was just a political stunt.

It is so pleasant to see so many frustrated Repubs. That’s exactly how the Democrats felt when Bush got us involved in this stupid Iraqi war. Now it’s your turn to stew. Suffer on fools.

She wants the spotlight and she got it. What a rebel! She is so wise. NOT! Socialism is un-American and this is just yet anothe incremental stepping stone to achieve Democrats/Socialist goals. Dishonest rubbish!

Saying this bill is affordable just shows how stupid people in Washington are. Either that or the lobbyists have some good bribery money on the ready.

She won’t be getting my vote.

Guys saying that shes a traitor is not gonna help. The fact is that this health care bill will probably be the most drastic change to this country yet and will ruin every american;s life. However, saying that she is doing something bad because she didn’t vote Republican is terrible. Political parties are one of the worst things ever to be a part of this government. People need to vote on what they think is right or wrong, not to be loyal to there party. She was an idiot because she voted for something that is completely and utterly unconstitutional, not because she didn’t vote republican.
Grow some brains people!

It always shocks me to read the vitriol and fearful responses of adults who resort to name calling and broad generalizations when other adults choose a path or decision with which they disagree. Adults, educated Americans, wake up, stop acting like small children. Do you allow your own children to call names or do you ask them to communicate facts. Please begin acting (and writing) like rationale human beings. Facts not fear.

Anyone ask her what was in this? All they did was want to get this to the floor… This iwll change so much that she has no clue what she even voted on.. How did any of these clowns ever run a business ?
SNOWE must GOWE (GOne is 2010)
The campaign has begun lady !!!

LOOKS LIKE BARRY S. FINALLY GOT HIS OLYMPIACS HOOKED

That would be 2012 for Snowe :)

Spy? Turncoat? Sheep in Wolf’s clothing? Maybe some conservatives should run in blue zones as Democrats.

Let not your hearts be troubled. As soon as the news came down the grassroots effort to remove this disgrace in Maine began. We already have a rally in Augusta planned for November 7, at 12:00PM
The emails are flying to spread this around.

Snowe is a flake ….
Enough said …. Also start drinking some milk for bones. That bend in your back is looking bad… You don’t want to be a burden on society do you?

It has finally come down to voting ALL these idiots on the hill out of office. It’s clean sweep time in D.C., America. Olympia Snowe has always come across to me a simple minded bafoon. Why the people of Maine elect this whack job defies all logic. They all can’t be a dumb as her. Could they?

What is wrong with the Republican Party? People like Senator Snowe. Let’s really see where the rubber meets the road. I really believe that there needs to a home for Conservatives and that should be the American Conservative Party. I’ve left the Republican Party and they need to be replaced by the ACP. Period.

TREASON: is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one’s sovereign or nation.
She joins Obama and the liberal democrats in destroying “OUR” health care, “Our” Country “Our” FREEDOM!
Wake up America before it is too late!!!

This is a like being in a Fellini movie

Political suicide.

Republicans are for a Christian Nation and backyard abortions with a clothes hanger.
Democrats are for undocumented Christian(Mexican) aliens that now or someday will vote Democratic.
Mexicans don’t believe in abortion.
In the US every Mexican has twice as many children as they would have had in Mexico.
Maybe because welfare is a bonanza for speedy Gonzalezes.

I thought a senator is supposed to “represent” us ? Apparently not in this case. Her political career is over. She will be a lobbiest by the end of 2012, no question.

Wow, there sure is a lot of stink coming out of Washington these days. You know it’s bad, when the most *refreshing* thing is Joe Wilson breaking decorum and standing up to blurt “you lie” and actually cut through the crud and say it out loud like it is. As for Snowe, she really needs to go. And I mean that literally; in every picture I see of her, the expression on her face is of one who is badly constipated.

So, we got a bill that accomplishes none of the goals sought out and at huge expense to the middle class. I ask my fellow Americans to remember next time they go to the poles that neither Republican or Democrat is of any benefit to America. They’re all the laughing stock of a great nation.

No more Maine Lobster, or anything else that comes from there,for me. If it hurts the locals, so be it. Maybe they will not re-elect this hideous woman.

Finally a Republican with the spine to stand up to her party. I applaud her courage and wisdom in the face of such overwhelming stupidity within her own isle. Finally the Republicans are in the backseat of America’s minivan and can bicker and argue like the children they are while mommy and daddy drive.

I will give money to anyone who runs against this sell out. I wonder what she was promised for her state?
It is time for a repeal of this worthless waste of human flesh.
DISGRACE

What an idiot! Hope she likes the private sector.

You idiots care more about your failed ideology than the well-being of the American people. Olympia Snowe’s efforts should be applauded. Health care costs have more than doubled in the last 6 years and you idiots scream like a parroted broken record from a Rush Limpballs show. Geez! What a bunch of sore losers that prefer to accentuate profits to AIG over human lives!

I loved the President’s speech he gave where he said this had “both Democrat & Republican support.” Really Mr. President? One Republican does not make it supported by Republicans. He’s hoping that the Average Joe isn’t paying attention to the process and thinks ‘hey — they must have worked it out…it has the support of both parties.’

Well we all new this dumb broad was an idiot today she opened her mouth and took away all doubt.

I actually would prefer to be dead than subject to government healthcare

The only thing bipartisan about this bill is opposition to it. One wavering vote is not bipartisanship! Besides, how many Republicans had input to this bill and how many of their amendments passed?

This is the same lady who just about a year ago was saying the same B.S. as today. A year ago she said it was URGENT they get the stimulus bill passed,things would be bad if they do nothing. Well Olyimpia where the hell are all the jobs from the stimulus bill YOU passed. You don’t have a clue what you are talking about or what you are doing. You people from Maine can all go to hell for punishing this nation with all your pathetic representitives.

For all of you saying this is the death of her political career she’s been an Senator like 15 years as a republican in a democratic state. She won the last election with 74% of the vote against two other people.
PS Traiter is actually spelled Traitor.
do your homework this is a brilliant political move. she has both parties by the balls.

A lady with some sense at last! AT least she is trying to help the USA get healthy unlike the rest of the gop who want us ti be real sick so we can pay the insurance companies lots of money ( cos they own them) !It is so obvious this whole scam!
Get real! ( and learn how to spell traitor!!!)

Snowe may have an “R” beside her name, but there is nothing about her voting record that even hints she is a republican or a conservative..Joe Lieberman voted AGAINST his bill for crying out loud..Joe is a social LIBERAL, Snowe is to the LEFT of Joe Lieberman on all matters. Bi-partisan my asp! I’ll tell you what IS bi-partisan..and that is dissent against this Bill. This puts the Federal Goverment in between you and YOUR doctor..and THAT IS by DEFINITION UNCONSTITUTIONAL…you are no longer free to make your own health decisions! And the Government unconstitutionally makes health insurance MANDATORY! Total BS! Rise up!

Can anyone think of what the “Great State of Maine” has done for this country in the last 100 years? Pleezzzzze……..they are just “there”.

We need somebody (I vote for Sarah) to come in and denounce all the RINO’s.
Then we need to have the Republican Party threaten all of them with legal action unless they switch parties. I’n guessing they could win such a lawsuit (along the lines of damage to a brand name) and I think they’d only have to win once to get the other rats to jump ship.
Once all the RINO’s are gone, we can begin to gain the trust of America again.

Snow must be kicked to the curb in her re-election bid. This vote in unacceptable for a republican. I and many many other conservatives will be donating to whom ever runs against her.

vote her out!
to bad, but i think their to stupid to do it.

The poster child of the crumbled and destroyed corrupt worthless Republican Party, She says that the party left her… right she is the only one in the marching band in step my ass, The party left me and I left them to Independent weeks ago. Its time to start voting everybody out everytime until the foul stench stench of their corruption has left and nobody is in long enough to learn how to game the system.Hopefully this tyrant Obama the first will trip up and be brought up on treason charges before to much damage is done.,Oh did I say that out loud. scuse me

On Bi-Partisanship: Senator Snowe, this is not the time to be Bi-Partisan, the political system in this county was designed for spirited debate and contention by our founding fathers. This debate and contention is designed to protect the citizens from Government, our founding fathers were oppressed by tyranny and were wise enough to create a government that would not have the single-mindedness of a tyrant.

Charlie Gibson is a ridiculous journalist, look at his opening question! Maybe he should get a PR job with some political bigwig. When will the the TV networks figure out pathetic these anchors are? As for Sen Snowe… that’s all she wrote… it’s over for her!

If the voters of Maine elect this pathetic excuse for a legislator again,
they will prove to the rest of the country, beyond a doubt, that they are
brain dead!

I have an idea for Congress, how about push people to get a job, then they can pay for health care. Problem solved!

Snowe needs to do the honorable thing and resign from Republican Party.
She is a disgrace and a fraud.

Why can’t the GOP get their crap together and clean house? Kick her out of the party and send her over to Arlen Specter’s camp. What a twit. Her and Lindsey Graham both need to go….

party before country?
Some of you are as unpatriotic as I’ve ever seen. Having the courage to stand up for what you believe in, even if it is not the status quo of the political party you’re affiliated with, is truly American.
Get with the program and quit being sheeple. So easily led.

I’ll bet she is not one that will vote that the members of congress and senators be forced to use the same plan that they are trying to force everyone else to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. The correct spelling is “traitor”, not “traiter”, Paula.
2. Snowe will most definitely NOT be ousted from office by her constituents in Maine. If you knew anything about politics outside of your “neck of the woods”, you’d understand that life isn’t a “one size fits all”, even for many in the Republican party.
3. Thank God there are Americans who actually think for themselves!

There is so much nonsense on this comment board that I would like to point one thing out:
If you have health insurance, you are ALREADY paying for the freeloaders who don’t. When uninsured Uncle Buck goes into the emergency room and gets a bill of $1400 for 3 stitches that he can’t pay for, the hospital just raises its prices to make up the difference. Who pays more? Your insurance company. And they pass that cost on to you in the form of higher premiums. So if you hate freeloaders and you hate paying for everyone else’s health care, then you should LOVE this reform package. It makes sure everyone who can pay pays something.
I may be a republican, but even I can see that the current system only encourages people to “shoplift” their healthcare and throw the added costs onto those who are responsible enough to have health insurance. The current system is nothing more than free market welfare. Everyone should have to pay something. Period.

Were you really suprised at her vote?
A blind man would know what she would do. All the “old guard republicans” need to quit, after apologizing to the American people for putting this country in this position. Show them what term limits are and vote them all out. Stop this unconstitutional govt now.

Great to see a Republican with a heart & Brain..haven’t seen that for a while. Don’t like the bill, but like a maverick. Snow will have no trouble with reelection, can’t say that for the rest of the clan.

Bipartisanship???? That would mean that there would be Republicans for and Democrats against, right? OK, we have one Republican for…where is the Democrat against?

Hey Charlie, how about reporting what is actually IN the bill instead of reporting on 1 pretend Republican that voted for it? Or is that something that should be reported by cable news networks also?

Now, now, we all know that we have the best government that money can buy. Vote all incumbents out, and keep doing it until they learn that it is supposed to be a temp job.

SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!! I PROMISE YOU, WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE NEXT ELECTION. YOU AND ALL THE OTHER LIBERAL FREAKS. PLEASE QUIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IMMEDIATELY. YOU ARE A PATHETIC. THEY USED YOU AND YOU FELL FOR IT. WE WANT YOU OUT. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Talk about an empty skirt, the senator needs to get it over with and change tribes. Please knock off the charade. If you can’t be partisan in the most crucial debate of this decade, you have no compass when it comes to principle.

What a pathetic excuse for a congressman. Vote yes on a piece of garbage even you do not agree with to “move the process forward”? How about vote no you weak spined democrat. Change parties and do us all a favor. What a disgrace. Stand for some principles, or do you have any left? Term limits to get people like this out of Washington. Corrupt, power hungry, worthless people who just want to sell out the people so they can get pats on the back from other like minded politicians. I am voting against any incumbent I see in the next elections and I do not care if they are democrat or republican. Career politicians have got to go before America is reduced to a corrupt government like {insert the name of any African, South American, or socialist/communist country here}.

We will win in spite of goons like this one. No matter what they do, we will vote this bums out. History will show this goon was on the wrong side.

Politics means: never having to say you’re responsible.

Why do you whine all day? Obama won elected by majority, in other words democratically. So the minority must respect the decision of the majority. Period.

what does it matter? Obama is devaluing the dollar anyways.. Israel is about to attack Iran.. wars and rumors of wars.. sounds a bit like Biblical prophesy to me.

Well my senator voted for this too. I am upset. I am out of work and for them to tell me I have to buy insurance or pay $700 dollars in penalties is absurd. If you are unemployed how do you pay for healthcare now, are you going to the emergency room on my dime

the taxes are still there and high numbers,,, you should have back down
and waited to see the whole package instead of setting yourself up to be out front of an issue that is very important to the american people ,we the people do not want any change in our health care,,we all work very hard to keep our standards where they should be,,,standards are an issue you have not yet grasp,,, you should listen to the people and your own party ,we are not going to stand for our standard healthcare to fall apart ,,you take the heathcare package and let the rest of us alone,,maybe an all over change in our govt is what is called for ,,
leave american medicine alone,please

I have spent sometime looking at the comments and it is easily 4 to 1 against Snowe and the Obamacare plan. The only positive responses are from liberals that use th etired old arguments like :
a> Big Business is evil (except everyone’s 401K depends on them being successfull as does the economy as a whole)
b> thousands…no millions are dying because of a lack of healthcare. We all die from a lack of health care! This is what kills us! Our health fades. We cannot always be saved otherwise we would live forever. Obamacare cannot change this
c> Every Republican senator is on the take, of course the democrats are not
d> liberals always bring up George Bush’s name as often as they can and blame 8 years on him even if Democrats have run congress for the last 3
e> Finally liberals say we are not having a discussion. Guess what we don’t want to talk about it we don’t agree with it
enough said
4 to 1 2010 is gonna be a great year, for conservatives

To hell with her. Wearing a suit jacket and tying your hair back doesn’t make you a conservative, Oly. But voting for legislation that sells our system and our freedoms down the river sure as heck makes you a liberal. I hope Obama appreciates the big, wet Lewinsky you’re giving him, baby…

Just like the stimulus bill we get a Snow job from this RINO from Maine. Everyone read Thomas Sowell’s editorial about the housing debacle and you will see where this bill will lead us.

such bad losers you die hard repubs are. You know 65 percent of the country wants this don’t you? Such complete idiots, boggles the minds. Why don’t you focus on the gays, or build a memorial for GWB somewhere in Crawford.

Hey lolgop-
Joe Wilson was absolutely right- O played with semantics- said health bill wouldn’t include illegals and then tells a Puerto Rican group that after he gives illegals amnesty they would have health benefits.Panders to all groups- egotistical socialist!

She’s been in the Senate way too long. Shoot, she’s been running as a Republican way too long as well. I think it’s time she switches parties and stays where she feels more comfortable. Republicans do NOT want her!

Geez, from the Drudgereport inspired comments (you can see where Drudge readers are politically!) it’s clear that a lot of people are out of touch with reality. Snowe is popular and has no danger of not being re-elected. Obama is at 56% approval. Americans support Democrats over Republicans in a generic ballot. All the talk about revolutions and “traitors” is emotional sillyness reflecting impotence rather than real political convictions. Grow up.

Let us all be guided by the things that we have in common, and not focus on the things that we disagree on. So, the Taliban is against gay marriage AND that is something the Catholics can agree on.

NExt Election we END ALL the Departments of CRAP-
Education, Energy, Untied Nations,
Whittle this dragon doen to defense and borders. AAYYYEE

Obviously she is another one who hasn’t heard the majority of Americans speak.
Shame on this congress and especially this traitor. Perhaps she would rather seek attention than hear our voices.

What a bunch of vitriolic nonsense. Olympia Snow is a rare politician who actually cares about America more than her party and votes her CONSCIENCE! You are all hateful

She is amazingly silly. Just like Specter

Snow is a true RHINO.

America needs to go vegan to improve their health.

Re-elect nobody!

It would have made it out of committee without her delusionally self important vote. He excuse of keeping the process going was a lie. Her constituents ought to take notice. The rest of the country has……

Maine should be proud.
Proud that their Senator is a dimwit.

psssttttttttttt

Maybe they have something on her?

How much did she get paid or what pork of the porkulus spending is she getting? She is NOT a Republican-these are the ones we need to gut out in 2010! Conservatives step forward!

Olympia Snowe and other leftists faithf in government is unfounded. Medicare is near bankruptcy. Medicaid is bankrupting the States. The Stimulus Bill did not create any “shovel ready” jobs as promised as proven by the fact unemployment is near 10% and rising. Government run health care on the Indian Reservations is a National tragedy. Government run Veterans run health care is substandard. No one knows whose pocket the TARP funds went into the only thing that is clear is that credit is still frozen for small businesses.
So when I hear Senator Snowe pompous statements about how government will be the savior when it comes to solving health care problems, I want to puke.
The reality is government will make health care worse not better as proven by governments dismal track record. Just name one area where government has ever been sucessful in solving any problem? If Olympia Snowe and the other leftist get their way, health care costs will go up and the quality of care will go down.

Bi-partisian agreement is wrong when it violates the U.S. Constitution and peoples RIGHTS. Health care is a special interest. The people writing this bill are attempting to force people to have health care insurance with specific services and products. An excuse used is that the government must pay for health care of the uninsured. This is false. This is the socialist and communist agenda. The government should not be paying for health care period. These bills are nothing more than a power grab and for special interests in the health care businesses and an effort to create more government run businesses. Those writing these bills are greedy controlling liberals and socialists. I thank every senator and representative opposing these bills.

This woman, GUARANTEED, is voting in favor of the final bill. It’s a done deal, and thanks to her, the Dems won’t have to stomach the uphill task of reconcilation. By Snowe’s logic, she votes for a bill in committee that she disagrees with so “the process can move along.” Remember that she is one of three Rino’s, along with Susan Collins and Benedict Arlen Specter, who made it possible for the Stimulus bill to pass … she’s voting for Obamacare. Period. I hope the party brass take her to task over this. Who is running against her in 2010 ???

There’s no surprise here. Olympia has always been a moderate-liberal Republican. In almost any state other than Maine, she would be a Democrat. But, in the northeast, someone has to run on the Republican ticket (since no one else in that area can think for themselves, and vote Democrat)

Why would the Democrats keep pushing for a health care formula that they know can’t possibly work? It’s because they couldn’t care less about real health care. It’s all about control and they see this as a way to get it.

Typical Rino vote. I bet she will become a Dem, just like Spector did. Way to stick it to your party, once again Olympia, go stick your head in the Snowe, that’s where it usualy is anyway.

I’m just glad to see Charlie Gibson knew they were voting on this in committee, and that he knows who Sen. Snowe is.
Way to keep up, Charlie!

VOTE THIS ONE OUT ASAP!!!! NOBAMA!!!

Demons everywhere! So many comments here reflect a need for every Republican to be in lockstep with their beliefs. A moment of reflection might reveal that this is the thought process of groups like Al Qaeda as well. True, you’re not killing anyone (yet) but as you shrink the list of ‘tolerable’ people more and more, your enemies seem more plentiful. How long before you think violence is the only thing that will save your vision of the US?

Jibberish. She’ll vote for it. Yawn.
They want to bankrupt the private insurance plans and tax benefits.
Gov’t 1 – makes and enforces the laws
2 – has the power of taxation

Gibson: Senator Snowe, thanks for being with us tonight.
EXZACTLY!!!! With Obama and his state run media!

Just looking upon that dull bovine stare that is pasted to her face is enough to let you know just the kind of deadwood that is cluttering up elected offices across the country. It’s becoming pretty obvious that the ruling class has nothing but contempt for us and will need to be dealt a lesson at the ballot boxes again. Of course that requires an educated public and after years of public school indoctrination and low expectations coupled with the dogma fed to us by the lamestream press, it will be interesting to see if you can wake up that mere 10 to 20 percent of sheeple voters who wait until the last week to decide who to vote for like they were making a choice on a bundt cake down at the grocery store. Snowe, don’t bother updating the resume, see if Hugo has a spot in his cabinet for you, you kids are almost two peas in a pod.

She has played her cards too many times. I believe there is a way to support nationalized health care as a Republican. Want we want (as Rebubs) is accountability. If I were running, I would support this bill if it made unrealistic guarantees to tax payers. This is the way to support the bill but contribute to it’s downfall. Glad I’m not in politics and have to be as fake as that.

The wicked witch of the east has struck AGAIN!

Been watching the progression of the Republicans on this blog who do not know their from a hole in the ground regarding what has been going on for the last four months. Obama is our president at least to 2012. If you want him to fail, you want America to fail. That sounds like a traitor to me. Health Care. 43,000+ citizens die for lack of affordable Health Care and Insurance companies dropping them when they get sick. Republican answer: don’t get sick. And if you get sick die quickly. The way you republicans are talking I am beginning to believe it. Remember Bush. He is the one who initiated the Stimulus Package. He was the one who would NOT reform health care. Gawd what a bunch of losers. Glad to be an independent. At least olympia is thinking about her constituents instead of the poor Insurance Companies!

This is why Maine is so screwed up. Either be a democrat or a republican. Wishy washy does not get it in politics, Look at Pres Bo, he is a marxist, and proud of it.

Sad. That someone of little intelligence and ability has such great power over those of us with intelligence and ability merely reinforces my thoughts that our system, as a whole, is broken.
I’m open for any suggestions on how to get the idiots who keep electing them back into office to stay home on election day…

What did she get for this? It will obtain…

Such vicious, rabid comments.
Olympia Snowe is a very popular Senator in Maine. I think her vote today will make her even more so. She’s not going anywhere.

Think Oly might be thinking of a third party run ? Ok, Ok, maybe not a third party………….how bout a 5th or 6th party….founded on the principle of “NO PRINCIPLES” ? ? That would fit right in with the Obama Doctrine, right?

Don’t worry Olympia, you won’t be alone too much longer. Illinois is about to elect a bigger RINO that even you and your current cohort are.
Mark Kirk has been endorsed by Obama’s shoeshine boy, Michael Steele, to be the next RINO in the Senate.
And of course, Illinois voters will see the (R) next to his name and think they are voting AGAINST Obama when
(Karl) Marx Kirk is the biggest Obama worshipper since Neville Chamberlin was playing handmaiden to Hitler…
Come on Republicans, lets start electing REAL Republicans like Dr Eric Wallace (who can’t even get ON the IL primary ballot because of Steele the RNC and the IL Republo-Democrat Party) and not New Age Communists like Kirk, Collins, McCain, Lindsey Graham, Specter and Snowe.

She needs to be voted out of office on Mid-Term Election Day, November 3, 2010. She does not represent the will of the American people, so kick her butt out of office and out of power! ANY CONGRESSMAN OR CONGRESSWOMAN WHO VOTES TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS OF MONEY WE DON’T HAVE NEEDS TO BE KICKED OUT OF OFFICE ON NOVEMBER 3, 2010! OBAMA’S CONGRESS IS BANKRUPTING OUR COUNTRY. Whatever happened to getting rid of the Mexicans? Why do we have immigration laws if our Congress refuses to enforce them? Let’s start bussing the Mexicans back to Mexico – forget putting them up in hotels here! And NO, OUR TAX DOLLARS SHOULD NOT BE BUYING FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGAL MEXICANS.

Snowe—-RESIGN THE PARTY and JOIN ARLEN SPHINCTER, as a Dumascrat. Maybe that other weakling Maine woman Senator, Susan Collins, should also become a Democrat—whe is almost worthless.
Let the Republicans run a real conservative, not a traitor and loser, like you.
Maybe Lindsey Graham can join you. He has been seen partying too often with Barney Frank, to remain in a party that MUST become honorable and honest.
Time to CLEAN HOUSE in the Republican party. Olympia….take your bottle of black hair dye, and take Lindsey Graham (with his light loafers), and become OFFICIAL Democrats.

The deficit is at an all time high, unemployment is at almost 10% and rising, the dollar’s value is plummeting and Medicare is about to go bankrupt.
Government run health care in States like Massachusetts are proven failures where costs have gone up and quality of care has gone down. Yet despite this President Obama and the Democrats are hell bent on ramming Health Care Reform down everyone’s throats. Moreover the CBO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Dept are predicting that the US is about to face a financial catastrophe. Thus, voting for a big spending government run Health Care is insane. Plus, forcing people to buy health care insurance, severely cutting Medicare and increasing everyone’s taxes to pay for it is freaking unbelievable!!!

she is just giving obama the opportunity to say “bipartisan” she knows what she is doing and how it looks and does not care – she is a democrat so she should just try to be honest and switch parties like specter did

Ms Snow, like all self-righteous, are just that, self righteous. They feel they are morally and intellectually superior to the the people who elected them. Like kings and dictators they will rule until they are diposed or they crush those they rule.

So being the only member of a party willing to cross the aisle on this issue makes her a ‘sellout’, ‘nut’, and ‘traitor’? We need health care reform. Snowe just set herself up to have HUGE influence on how the bill is written.

Sentor Snowe is a great voice in the American wilderness. This is for the cause of the poor and uninsured in the USA. In a world full of sissies and uneducated Republicans (read just some of the asinine comments), Snowe stands out as a true, concerned and intelligent politician. She has shown them how it is done. I admire her immensely.

You and Spector will be voted out – along with 40% of your “comrades” – Snowe – puke on you. 2010 is coming soon and 2012 the anti-America party comes to an end. We WILL take our country back from the Marxist/Socialists.

I see someone who’s NOT gonna get re-elected! LOL!

Arctic Lion, Snowe is not a “great voice in America” she is a pick pocket who is trying to legally steal money from the hard working people and hand it over to people who have not earned it. The problem with that concept is that once the hard working people figure out they are mere slaves of the State, they will stop working and the gravy train will stop serving gravy. Than gook luck asking your “great voice of America” for a hand out as there will be no one left for her to steal money from.

I wish he’d asked her which federal power in the Constitution she thinks authorizes the federal government to legislate regarding the matters in this bill.

How could anyone in their right mind or with any sense of common decency cut over half a trillion out of Medicare, when it is already near bankrupt, and use the money to fund another big spending government run health care program? The truth is the Democrats and leftists like Snowe, are conning the public when it comes to their true agenda.
The leftist true agenda is spelled out by Robert Reich ,President Obama’s economic adviser, when he says the Dems have to lie in order to get health care passed.
See: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=9040 where Reich says the true goal of the Democrats health care reform is to: 1)Deny health care for Seniors ,2)Stop the use of expensive life saving treatments and surgeries to the disabled and terminally ill, 3)Increase the cost of health care for the young and middle class so they can help pay for everyone elses’ health care and 4)Cut spending on new innovations in health care as they are too expensive.
So there you have it, the Democrats true agenda is too provide very expensive low quality health care for all that puts Seniors, disabled and Cancer patient into an early grave.

O Snowe needs to GO !

My Dad always said never get into an arguement with an Idiot some casual obsevers may not be able to tell the diffrence, this also applies to aparent communist and Rinos alike we can suffer the obvious commie but do we have to have an on going embaressment like Sen Snowe, go on and move to the democrats.

The 2-party system is the problem as both parties are mirror images of each other. They both have derailed from their Constitutional responsibilities and now just barter for power.
Olympia Snowe has no true beliefs nor anyone else who would blindly forward a bill that is astonishingly convoluted to the point of idiocy. What’s in this bill? Have they posted it online? Will they? You think?
Transparency?
I’m afraid the people now work for the government.

I listened to Senator Snowe re: National Healthcare. Her rhetoric was right out of the Democrat party playbook. Blame the big insurance companies, big drug companies, etc. She dismissed a study done by Price Waterhouse, a very reputable firm, for the Insurance industry which concluded that insurance premiums for the middle class would INCREASE $4,000 under the plan as constituted. The Democrats have never understood basic supply and demand. When congress mandates tax increases on insurance companies, those tax increases are passed onto the consumer! If they cannot be passed on, the company goes out of business. Maybe this is the end game of the Democrat party, force insurance companies out of the business of providing health insurance. Then an even more inefficient system can replace it, national health care ala Amtrak and the post office. I can understand “mandating” portability and outlawing denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions. However, surely they realize this would increase the cost of insuring people and must be covered by larger numbers of participants or raising rates or both! There is no free lunch and someone must foot the bill. Ultimately that means the taxpayer and/or the consumer must pay! All else is just smoke and mirrors. Surely expanding the boundaries across which companies can compete and reigning in the trial lawyers could go a long ways toward “bending” the cost curve down. I’m afraid all we are going to get is a government run, inefficient system which rations care for the very young and the very old. As for Olympia Snow, why doesn’t she just change parties and be over it. At least then we would all know who the players are! I find it interesting also that the main stream media ALWAYS gives lots of air time the those republicans that are really democrats.

The Congress needs to be swept clean. All must go. Yes, there may be a few who are in the “OK” category, but they can come back and present their credentials and make their case in the following election.
Now, we must prove we mean business. Send them all home and see if a new Congress will listen a little better.

GiveMeLiberty-
Your name is ironic as you actually espouse economic enslavement by the government. There will always be poor people in the world. It is a fact of life. A free people have the choice to help them or not. Americans are the most generous people on the planet, and this before their government takes from them to do its bidding. To FORCE people to subsidize others at gunpoint is immoral. Better to teach a hungry man to fish than to give him a fish and leave him hungry later.

How can ANYONE vote “yes” on legislation that has not been written yet,which means it cannot be read??? So this “whatever it is”)has provided ObaME with “Bi-Partisan support”??? Oh Pleeeze! I believe the Baucus team had enough votes to get the “bill” out of committee; why did Ms. Snowe feel it necessary to say “yes” to this travesty? I am proud of those senators who did not fall for this scam. It should all be scratched and started all over again with the experience(?) gain to date: Tort reform, less meddling with already existing health plans, and absolutely no benefits for illegals. Why don’t the liberals address the main issues and stop trying to be “all things to all people”. As it turns out, they are being “nuttin to nobody”!

Republican and Democratic politicians have both said there is a need for health care reform. Its been needed and its been coming. Clinton tried to get it passed and the Republicans shot it down. The Republicans had 8 years under Bush to get it done and they did nothing. You had your chance and you blew it, now Obama is getting his chance.

I’m embarrassed to be from the same State as this woman!

Time for Republicans like this to move on and progress to the other side of the aisle.
Key statement by Snowe: “I don’t want government at the outset of the process.”
This is a step in the direction of the gov controlled public option. She admits it – she just knows the American public currently won’t have any of it. Time to kick her out of office, folks in Maine…

Am I the only one that can see how corupt our government has become. How come this does not scare the crap out of Americans? We need to do something about these thieves and the press covering it up. I mean look at this, They vote and give away our freedom without any objections, We accept it and say this is normal. This is not representation.

I believe we are witnessing the single greatest betrayal to our Constitutional Republic, second only to the greatest swindle called the federal reserve.
I just hope these Constitutional subversives in CON-gress live long enough to see their offspring shoulder the burden and bare the consequences of their folly.

She’s a disgrace and must go. She’s enabling the stealers of economic freedom to get their propaganda win on “bi-partisanship”. My head is going to explode I’m so furious—and yet, knew deep down that she’d betray the American people to feel good about some bullcrap “historic” event she deludes herself to think is taking place.

Olympia Snow is a Democrat in disguise. If you people in Maine want Republican Senators, why don’t you elect them?

Man!!!! Is she UGLY!!! She even LOOKS like a democrat…too bad she SAYS she’s a Republican…GOD SAVE US…AMEN

So Comrade Charlie at the All Barack Channel is shilling for a fellow Obama socialist Snowe . Isn’t this the same network that did the free Obama Death care infomercial for their fellow former Dem party operative aka reporter named Linda Doulgas, the head of Obama healthcare propaganda ? What a shock ! They don’t call it the Obama state media for nothing !

A traitor to what! Jesus Christ himself would want everyone to have some type of access to some kind of care! what is wrong with yall!?! i am NOT A democrat on any level…but I feel like if Christ or His Mother was walking on this world…they would be in favor of giving their money to the poor just to survive.

Posted by: Jesse | Oct 14, 2009 2:36:12 AM
Why no comment on across the states insurance, liability cap on the lawyers
I ALSO AGREE WITH THAT! HEYY! how about we all pay for all (like school) BUT they aren’t throwing money away on $200 pillow’s in the hospitals. What is the real reason healthcare is so expensive in the first place?

WAKE UP PEEPLE, WE NEED TO TAKE ARE CUNTRY BACK!!!

YOU’RE Out Woman!!!!!! Start packing your bags while we the people are calling Bekins Van Lines to Move you OUT . U R a TRAITOR 2 the PARTY

Hey why do I have to pay for the deadbeats, layabouts, and illegal imigrants? Who gave these commie pinko government sickos the right to give away my hard earned money? If the bottom feeders want a better life why don’t they go out and earn it like all the rest of us. Congress can go to hell!! The leeches can drop dead. Tell Obama and all his misfit stooges to take all the deadbeats and go back to Kenya were they came from in the first place, maybe they will revert back to eating each other. Leave America to real hard working Americans

This woman is a Lib Dembo telling her constituents she is a Republican…who cares. I now vote for Libertarians…screw the Republicans and the Obama Dembo worshipers.

How dare she rape our freedom! Vote the slime out!!!

I went to school with her step son. How embarrassing to know that she is such a traitor to the American people.
She was USED and ABUSED by Obama tonight. Treated here like a stripper representing the republicans doing a little dance for the dems. To top it all off her state already has “universal” health care of whatever you like to call it… and it’s a failure. So she now thinks we should try it a a nation? She is PSYCHO! We need a real Republican/Conservative/American in Maine. What a shame.

I would have to say if that’s what the people that put her in office want then you go girl but I have a feeling she is going against the folks who put her in that office and they will let her know next time she runs…she will be without a job!

None of our representatives understand the meaning of the word.
Representative means voting according to your constituents not yourself.

The media long ago began its trickery of us. For years they have gleefully classified ULTRA LEFT LIBERAL politicians as “Moderates”. Unfortunately, the RNC allowed that for whatever their immediate needs back then because it enabled them to at least be on a near equal footing with the Dems who were powerful at the time. Thus, the GOP kept the likes of Snowe, Susan Collins, Arlen Spector, et al, even though they voted with the Dems on MANY strong leftist agenda bills. In hindsight the RNC should have backed Conservative types each time one of these quislings came up for reelection. In the long run it would have made the GOP a much stronger party. Unfortunately they were shortsighted and now look at its ranks. In my own district in NJ we have a first GOP representative named Leonard Lance. I began following his votes and have been sickened. Hell, he voted for Cap n Trade among his many votes that sided with the opposition. THE GOP SHOULD BACK COMPETING CANDIDATES TO THESE PEOPLE each time its determine their conservative rating is under 90%.

Maybe the question should be: What do your fellow Republicans know that you don’t?
Anyone know what she got in exchange for this vote? Is ABC even curious about that?

I will NEVER step foot in Maine, again. I used to vacation there, but no more. My vacation money will go to the taxes that the OBamanation was not going to raise.

You can just tell by the way she talks during interviews that she would be an easy prey for slick talking Democratic senators. What in the world were Republicans in Maine doing or thinking when they elected her?

I think she’s great! Good job being the lone brave one to stand out and truly try to make a difference! Now we can technically say Healthcare Reform was a bipartison effort. GREAT JOB!

Wow, an independent thinker in the Senate who votes for what she believes in. Imagine if we had 49 more like that!

Talk about wanting the spotlight? Ican change my vote at anytime you dont cater to my smallminded wishes.

Sen Snowe is a pathetic liar. She speaks out of both sides of her mouth when she says she doesn’t like what’s in the Bill but wants it to move forward. she is a complete sell out of her Party, Constituents and principles. She will never get voted into office again whether she tries to run as a Republican or defects to the Democratic Party. If she wants to do the right thing, then she should resign and let us have proper representation.

To any Republican who wants to extend a hand across the isle, that hand had better be in the shape of a fist or you are going to be gone in the next election.

Snowe is a nut job and a traitor. I live in Maine and she needs to be removed from office.

Snow is a left wing nut job that craves ATTENTION. WAKE UP MAINE and vote for a true representative thats votes for your needs.

Socialist traitor!

I found one. She has no business representing anyone. She is a total and complete moron. She has to go.

The lured her in by telling her black hair dye would be covered under the president’s plan.

The Obama camp claims there are no death panels and no push to deny medical care to seniors in order for them to die off quicker, but yet every health care plan including this one drastically cuts spending for Medicare in a society that is aging. If nothing else, Medicare would need even more money not less. So this tells me that there will be death panels and there will be end of life counseling that encourages those on Medicare to give up trying to live. I’m just too sorry. I would never chose my own health over that of my parents. I have too much respect for them, apparently something Obama and his ilk, including Ms. Snowe, knows nothing about.

What a joke. This women is no republican. “no votes for turn coats” Run her out in the next election.

I, for one, want more big brother. We have way too much freedom. I always feel guilty when I get away with things like speeding or not paying taxes on the $20 I made helping someone move. I hope the bill fails if it DOES NOT include higher taxes and a “public-excuse for companies not to offer healthcare at all-option”

Sen. Olympia Snowe, it boils down to this simple question, do you belive in the private market or not? If so, consider tax breaks, tax free medical accounts, Tort Reform, cross border competition, and less goverment rules.

my my, what a handy ready-made scapegoat. Get a clue everyone, it doesn’t matter at all. Just like the guy you all voted for.
Take care of your own house, and don’t worry about the Gov.

Ms. Snow looks like a very nice lady – intelligent, thoughtful, and well meaning. Exactly like my Mother, God rest her soul.
And, like my Mother, she votes with the democrats because she has a do-gooders ‘heart of gold’… but,
trying to discuss politics with her was like reasoning with a head of cabbage.

As much as I disagree with her on this… The truth is that whether she’s Republican or Democrat, she must represent her constituancy… If her voters support it, wouldn’t you say she’s doing her job? If they didn’t want it and she voted for it, I’m sure she’ll be voted out next election.

People of Maine need to put this liberal democrat out to pasture….She’s NOT a republican.

A ray of light in the dark abyss of stagnated bipartisan propaganda!! Cheers to you O. Snowe – will we ever have a government that works together for the good of the people? Let’s re-evaluate, is that even possible?

“when history calls”…. are you kidding me….
Nevermind that it is horrible legislation but history is calling….

The Repubs shouldn’t even show up for the vote, what a mess, too bad this isn’t really about healthcare, it’s about more power for the gov’t. How can anyone with common sense believe that giving gov’t more control is a good thing. The private sector will do a better job on it’s own, gov’t interference is the problem.

Have to wonder what she received in return. Only time will tell.Working for 2-3 days a week must be really tough.

What a disgrace!

Bigger government spending more money we don’t have. She really should just go over and become a dem with thinking like that. Wait, I think she is.

I am not one of her constituents, however, her vote affects me. I am in favor of help financing an orginazation to opose her in the next election. AND in the meantime challenge her in the media, especialy in her home state of Main
Think we could get any traction on this project?

This is why I am no longer a member of the RNC. I will never donate as long as they support people like Snowe. The government was not meant to “run” things that are private. What happened to “the only thing the government is good at is creating red tape”. I remember that anything the government touched was a financial nightmare. It wasn’t that long ago….I believe it was during the election of 2004. Social Security & Medicare are failing!!! The senior Rx program that Bush started has already cost 3 TIMES the amount that was predicted. WAKE UP PEOPLE!! Take responsibility for your own welfare.
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” – Thomas Jefferson

With the income tax decrease, I am surprised she did not see that her state is tired of ever increasing taxes. Funny how this takes a prominent place in the news, but Liebermans no vote hardly makes a whisper.

The South should rise again. We need to throw off the bonds of tyranny and declare independence. A great wall should be built from the Potomac across the Ohio rivers. Let the Socialist fall into bankruptcy. There is no hope for this nation. We are doomed. We are printing fiat money to purposefully collapse this nation. The DNC and RNC are the Hydra. Multiple heads of the same beast. Until the idiots of this nation figure this out, there is not hope.

AMEN Bryan. I would like to put ALL my taxes in escrow as a form of protest. Unfortunatly, there will be no “free-market” health insurance if a public one is created.

Ms. Snow is a liberal senator who represents a very liberal state. She will probably be lauded by her constituents for her vote. No one should be surprised by this vote.

What you illiterates see in Olympia Snowe is a shred of principle.

I want someone who will vote for Constitution. This is not the role of our federal government. It’s irrelevant if you think there should be public health care. What they should do is look at tort reform THAT will lower the cost of insurance. Unfortunatly that would tick off the lawyers that keeps them in office.

I’m so disgusted…she is a disgrace

“I think for so long the art of legislating has been lost here in Congress and it’s all about just moving it along on the fast track”
Ms. Snowe… voting in favor of a bill simply because “when history calls, history calls” is tantamount to “just moving it along on the fast track.
Perhaps you have the wherewithal to state so clearly what is wrong with congress expressly because you exemplify it in your own track record.

For all those that are fed up with both party’s…take a look online at the American Conservative Party.

I did not read this after seeing it was charlie gibson who did the interview

Can someone in Maine knock her out in the next primary? Please.

She is and has been irrelevant for some time now. All the media outlets have reported that she is the only Republican so the whole bipartisan aspect rings hollow. I wouldn’t expect this to pass anytime soon. The unions are now coming out against it and the dems don’t dare anger them. It could mean the end of dem rule for decades.

Time for Snowe removal. She’s as dirty as a democrat; she may as well switch parties now. Good riddance. I am embarrassed she “represents” Maine. What an absolute buffoon. She’s a traitor to all taxpayers.

It makes me sick to think our politicians are taking bribes. An investigation needs to be done, if she took a bribe then she and the people bribing her need to be thrown out of office. Corruption is unacceptable.

GOP should cut off all funding for this turncoat!

Well now Olympia, you have shown your true colors. We need to follow the money and see what Miss Snowe, or her State got from TARP.

Stop hammering Snowe. She got this thing out of commitee so it can die a proper death. I congradulate her on making that move. The rest of you are just making unnecessary noise. she will not support the final version after the DEMS add thier liberal spin to it.

She did the Republicans and the country a favor by getting it out of committee. It is destined to die a proper death now.

Shameful RINO has no allegiance to REAL American priciples.

We get what we desire. We continue to elect people of this ilk

Dishonest people like her are elected because our “Free Press” has turned into a modern day Tokyo Rose.

She’s a big idiot. She didn’t like the bill but she voted for it because it was ‘historical’?
Wonderful reason to sell out your countrymen, stupid.
Republican in Name Only. I’ll certainly remember to campaign against her next time. Not because i WANT to but because its historical.
Our politicians are ALL creeps.

“demonstrating the art of the possible”. Can we bankrupt the wealthiest nation on earth? ” Yes We Can! “

It’s not surprising. It is probably to appease her voters come re-election time (whenever that is). People from the northeast are liberal. If you’re a republican living up there, you’d better be moderate to liberal yourself or you’re on the chopping block.

These people are in for a HUGE wake up call come 2010. We need to vote all these traitors out! They KNOW the majority of the population DO NOT want this and they keep trying to cram it down our throats! When is ENOUGH ENOUGH?!?!? These people, Dems, Repubs, all of them that think they are no longer accountable to the PEOPLE have to GO!!!! I am FED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right on Daddio. You would think the people of Michigan would have learned that by now. We still have Granholm (still blown away), Levin & Stabenow. Detroit only gave up Kilpatrick because of legal action. The unemployment is SKYROCKETING here. Yet they still vote them in. I need to move.

Does anybody want to talk about the puppet Charlie Gibson? “What do you know that your fellow Republicans don’t?” Give me a break. How the hell do you call that reporting? At least we know where Mr. Insignificant stands. Charlie – you’ll never be able to hide your contempt for the right and you are disgracing Jennings’ memory. You should be ashamed. And they call FOX biased?

Whoever said she is hot better get to the eye doctor fast. She is just a female Spector and just as bad looking. Get out of the republican party and go kiss Obama’s butt more.

An act of real courage, Sen. Snowe. Well done.
To the right-wing purists above who suggests she leave the GOP …. I can’t agree more. We’d be happy to have Sen. Snowe on the Democratic side and further marginalize the Republicant party.
Even better, she could actually work on solutions to challenges the country faces, instead of just voting “no” on anything Obama supports (like the rest of her knee-jerk caucus). I’m sure she’d also like not to have to answer to rush limbaugh.
Come on over, Sen. Snowe.

“Is this what her constituents want?”
Thank you Ellen for throwing some actual common sense to the “discussion”.

She knows full well she is doing the wrong thing. Do not reelect – please

I stopped watching Charlie Gibson for a while after his condendscending interview with Palin, but I was drawn back to watching World News Tonight news until yesterday when he said, on the afternoon radio news, that the health bill came out of committee with a “bipartisan” vote.
WHAT? Because ONE republican voted in favor of the bill, it was bipartisan? What misuse of “reporting.” I used to think that Charlie Gibson would report the news, but apparently he needs to exercise his commentary nature like all the other left-winged “journalists.”

They just love her in Maine. I wish we had more members like her on both sides of the aisle.

The “public option” is not in the bill that passed the committee as I understand it. HOWEVER, Sen Collins, of the No. East has just announced that she is open to the plan. So of the No.East “republicans” we have the Good Fairy and the Bad Fairy..sorta good cop bad cop idea. Either way, they can change hats from time to time, and still keep their far-left credentials. Sneaky…but clever!!!

I live in Maine. I voted for Bill Cohen too. Another fine Republican Senator from Maine.
Olympia does us proud. She is about the people, and not the party.
More of our politicians should be about principles and not party ideologues.
If we had more like her, we would all be better off.
The fact that so many of you are expressing hateful and spiteful things about her shows your lack of class, and the problem with this nation.
Having a great society is not about how hateful you can be, it is about how well you can get along even when you disagree.
Think about it.