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GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« on: October 13, 2009, 12:35:51 PM »
GOP's Snowe to vote for Democrats' bill to overhaul country's health care system

    * By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
    * On 1:05 pm EDT, Tuesday October 13, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party on President Barack Obama's top legislative priority.

The Maine senator kept virtually all of Washington guessing how she would vote until she announced it late in the Senate Finance Committee debate Tuesday. Until then, she told reporters, she had not even let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in on her secret. She told her colleagues: "When history calls, history calls," even though she had some criticism of the bill.

Democrats, aware that Snowe could be the only Republican in Congress to vote for their health care overhaul, have spent months addressing her concerns about making health care affordable and how to pay for it.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GOPs-Snowe-voting-for-apf-212679073.html?x=0&.v=1
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2009, 12:38:32 PM »
When is that :censored: going to switch parties and get it over with?
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2009, 12:45:31 PM »
I would have been surprised if she said that she wasn't going to vote for this.
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2009, 12:45:58 PM »
In other news, water is wet, the sun rises in the east, and Michael Moore consumed 3 dozen doughnuts and 2 pounds of bacon for breakfast this morning.
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2009, 12:47:13 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on October 13, 2009, 12:45:58 PM
In other news, water is wet, the sun rises in the east, and Michael Moore consumed 3 dozen doughnuts and 2 pounds of bacon for breakfast this morning.

When did Moore start his diet?
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2009, 12:48:35 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 13, 2009, 12:47:13 PM
When did Moore start his diet?

It's a side affect of his protest of Capitalism.
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2009, 12:51:41 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on October 13, 2009, 12:45:58 PM
In other news, water is wet, the sun rises in the east, and Michael Moore consumed 3 dozen doughnuts and 2 pounds of bacon for breakfast this morning.
Is he on a diet or something?
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2009, 12:55:31 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 13, 2009, 12:38:32 PM
When is that :censored: going to switch parties and get it over with?

About the same time Ron Paul quits pretending HE is a Republican and runs as a Libertarian.
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2009, 02:02:37 PM »
Hardly a shock, but you'd think the frickin' Titanic had just docked safely from the afternoon radio news reporting on it.
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2009, 02:06:55 PM »
One of Obama's "comfort girls" speaks.  I'd love to know WTF the state of Maine was thinking.
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Re: GOP's Snowe voting for Democrats' health care bill
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2009, 02:24:08 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on October 13, 2009, 02:06:55 PM
One of Obama's "comfort girls" speaks.  I'd love to know WTF the state of Maine was thinking.

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