Pass The Buck
By Mitch Berg
So why did Olympia “Oly” Snowe vote for Obamacare?
Because she’s a statesmanlypersonly visionary who is looking beyond party politics?
Or because her own state’s socialized-medicine boondoggle is rapidly going broke?
Steven Spruill notes at NRO:
Obamacare would relieve a handful of northeastern states, including Maine, of the burden of funding their broken, heavily regulated and subsidized health-care systems while imposing new burdens on the South and Midwest in the form of expanded eligibility for Medicaid. Of course Snowe voted for this bill. It’s a bailout for Maine.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:16 am
So am I the only one for whom SiTD is loading terribly slowly, if at all?
October 16th, 2009 at 11:12 am
No, it’s been bad for 24 hours or so.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Democrats wanted this so they can claim it’s bi=partisan.
She’s reliably liberal and keeping her won’t get us a majority anytime soon. Anybody whose lifetime ACU rating is below a certain point should be a Democrat if only for truth in advertising reasons, much less for adherance to party planks.
Kick her out of the party.