Sen. Snowe voted yes but with reservations about what she may do on the final version of the Baucus bill: “Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls. And I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time.”
It will be interesting to see if she is able to lure some other moderate Republicans in. If she can they may have the ability to make this a more centrist reform package than it otherwise would have been.
Bottom line: I do not like it, and the partisan in me wishes we forced the Democrats to use reconciliation- which would have been political suicide in 2010. But my practical side thinks we were going to get something like the Baucus bill no matter what; maybe this way the right can at least pull back the most egregious parts.
It will be interesting to see if she is able to lure some other moderate Republicans in. If she can they may have the ability to make this a more centrist reform package than it otherwise would have been.
Bottom line: I do not like it, and the partisan in me wishes we forced the Democrats to use reconciliation- which would have been political suicide in 2010. But my practical side thinks we were going to get something like the Baucus bill no matter what; maybe this way the right can at least pull back the most egregious parts.
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Good God the idiocy never ceases to amaze me, how billion of dollars can be voted on with such reservations about it. And making it into a political leverage sort of thing just proves why these sort of things should NOT be in the hands of our government!!
Unfortunately for us, elections have consequences. I wish this never saw the light of day, but I think it is a foregone conclusion.
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