Comments on: The High Price of Snowe http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:47:29 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: NAVDOC3rdMAR http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51018 NAVDOC3rdMAR Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:00:05 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51018 <p>Senators Rockefeller, Schumer, Stabenow and Widen of the Senate Finance Committee Sub-committee on Health, did a great job of pointing out that the Medical Industrial Complex’s contribution to Health Care Reform, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is $20 BILLION and in return they will get $500 BILLION in TAX-PAYER FUNDED SUBSIDIES. Democratic Senators baucus, conrad, carper, lincoln and nelson voted with the republicans to kill the public option 09-29-09.<br /><br />Criminally corrupt politicians are the reason the U.S. is ranked near the bottom of every catagory when ranked next to other modern, industrialized nations. Time for publically funded elections. <br /><br />lieberman $12.6M, mcconnell $7.8M, baucus $7.7M, cornyn $6.7M, <br />kyl $5.6M, grassley $5.4M, ensign $5.2M, conrad $5.1M, cantor $4.9M, <br />nelson $4.9M, burr $4.8M, boehner $4.4M, hatch $4.4M, lincoln $4.1M, <br />vitter $3.9M, carper $3.6M were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform. (Source: <a href="http://OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a>, Aug. 09)<br /><br />Follow the Money: <a href="http://hmc-lavadogs.livejournal.com/20128.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a><br /><br />Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!<br /><br />(Toll Free # House and Senate)<br />1-866-338-1015 _____ 1-866-220-0044<br />1-800-473-6711 _____ 1-866-311-3405<br /><br />Sign Single-Payer Petitions: <a href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/join.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a> <a href="http://www.americacantwait.com/TrueMajority" rel="nofollow">Link</a><br /><br />Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.<br /><br />SEMPER FI!</p> Senators Rockefeller, Schumer, Stabenow and Widen of the Senate Finance Committee Sub-committee on Health, did a great job of pointing out that the Medical Industrial Complex’s contribution to Health Care Reform, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is $20 BILLION and in return they will get $500 BILLION in TAX-PAYER FUNDED SUBSIDIES. Democratic Senators baucus, conrad, carper, lincoln and nelson voted with the republicans to kill the public option 09-29-09.

Criminally corrupt politicians are the reason the U.S. is ranked near the bottom of every catagory when ranked next to other modern, industrialized nations. Time for publically funded elections.

lieberman $12.6M, mcconnell $7.8M, baucus $7.7M, cornyn $6.7M,
kyl $5.6M, grassley $5.4M, ensign $5.2M, conrad $5.1M, cantor $4.9M,
nelson $4.9M, burr $4.8M, boehner $4.4M, hatch $4.4M, lincoln $4.1M,
vitter $3.9M, carper $3.6M were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform. (Source: OpenSecrets.org, Aug. 09)

Follow the Money: Link

Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!

(Toll Free # House and Senate)
1-866-338-1015 _____ 1-866-220-0044
1-800-473-6711 _____ 1-866-311-3405

Sign Single-Payer Petitions: Link Link

Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.

SEMPER FI!

]]> By: bobh http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51017 bobh Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:56:43 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51017 <p>Even if you got all 60 Democrats to support cloture, you would have a problem because Byrd is infirm, and might not make all roll call votes. So you probably have to grovel to get Snowe to cover for Byrd.</p> Even if you got all 60 Democrats to support cloture, you would have a problem because Byrd is infirm, and might not make all roll call votes. So you probably have to grovel to get Snowe to cover for Byrd.

]]> By: DaddyO http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51010 DaddyO Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:31:27 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51010 <p>“…she is demanding several incredibly bad provisions ans policies be part of a health care bill…”</p> <p>No one could have predicted! </p> <p>That one’s getting a little old, but it always takes me back to the Worst Presidency Ever. George W. Bush has shat the bed for the Republicans, probably from now on.</p> “…she is demanding several incredibly bad provisions ans policies be part of a health care bill…”

No one could have predicted!

That one’s getting a little old, but it always takes me back to the Worst Presidency Ever. George W. Bush has shat the bed for the Republicans, probably from now on.

]]> By: zarf http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51009 zarf Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:27:32 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-51009 <p>All of this talk about ignoring the Republicans just means that the least lovely Democrats become the deciders, as Bush used to say.</p> <p>If you can prop Susan and Olympia up for the vote that’s two blue dogs who don’t force your hand.</p> All of this talk about ignoring the Republicans just means that the least lovely Democrats become the deciders, as Bush used to say.

If you can prop Susan and Olympia up for the vote that’s two blue dogs who don’t force your hand.

]]> By: TheLurkingMod http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50989 TheLurkingMod Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:00:41 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50989 <p>watertiger is upstairs at the Mothership!<br /><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/late-night-the-devolution-will-be-televised/" rel="nofollow">Late Night: The Devolution Will Be Televised</a></p> watertiger is upstairs at the Mothership!
Late Night: The Devolution Will Be Televised

]]> By: roxsteady http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50988 roxsteady Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:54:18 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50988 <p>If the Dems would just stand up and tell this hagg to take a hike, they could at least blame those Dems who vote against the bill. I’m so sick of this bitch I could scream. I hope that Wyden and Rockefeller vote against this trash and just pass the HELP Committe bill. As I keep saying, if they screw this up ever Dem will pay the price starting with those who are up for reelection in 2010 and ending with Obama in 2012. I’ve already begun to feel real comfortable with this approach. This way I’m motivated regardless of how this turns out. I hope the idiots in Maine who voted for this bitch will run her stupid, old ass out of office! VOTE SMARTER YOU MORONS!</p> If the Dems would just stand up and tell this hagg to take a hike, they could at least blame those Dems who vote against the bill. I’m so sick of this bitch I could scream. I hope that Wyden and Rockefeller vote against this trash and just pass the HELP Committe bill. As I keep saying, if they screw this up ever Dem will pay the price starting with those who are up for reelection in 2010 and ending with Obama in 2012. I’ve already begun to feel real comfortable with this approach. This way I’m motivated regardless of how this turns out. I hope the idiots in Maine who voted for this bitch will run her stupid, old ass out of office! VOTE SMARTER YOU MORONS!

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50984 Teddy Partridge Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:21:56 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50984 <p>Well, we’re seeing now how Snowe’s Maine co-conspirator Susan Collins almost single-handedly ruined state governments from coast to coast by insisting that the Obama stimulus bill not contain state aid. We’ve got fifty little Hoovers thanks to Sue. I suppose the Democrats would have had to act like they’d seen the Maine play before if the exact same player ran it, so the GOP sent Olympia Snowe into this game.</p> <p>That way, the Democrats can pretend this ruin-the-bill play hasn’t ever happened before, even though we all watched Susan Collins do exactly the same thing about six months ago. Funny how the parties seem to have conspired to make this happen, isn’t it?</p> <p>Maine: Ruining the Democratic President’s attempts at good government, one bill at a time. Thanks, Maine!</p> Well, we’re seeing now how Snowe’s Maine co-conspirator Susan Collins almost single-handedly ruined state governments from coast to coast by insisting that the Obama stimulus bill not contain state aid. We’ve got fifty little Hoovers thanks to Sue. I suppose the Democrats would have had to act like they’d seen the Maine play before if the exact same player ran it, so the GOP sent Olympia Snowe into this game.

That way, the Democrats can pretend this ruin-the-bill play hasn’t ever happened before, even though we all watched Susan Collins do exactly the same thing about six months ago. Funny how the parties seem to have conspired to make this happen, isn’t it?

Maine: Ruining the Democratic President’s attempts at good government, one bill at a time. Thanks, Maine!

]]> By: RevDeb http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50983 RevDeb Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:16:40 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50983 <p>This presumes that Snow is a lone actor.</p> <p>More likely she’s Rahmbo’s proxy. If she wasn’t and the WH really wanted a strong bill they would have cut her loose long long ago.</p> <p>JMO of course. YMMV</p> This presumes that Snow is a lone actor.

More likely she’s Rahmbo’s proxy. If she wasn’t and the WH really wanted a strong bill they would have cut her loose long long ago.

JMO of course. YMMV

]]> By: eCAHNomics http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50980 eCAHNomics Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:09:17 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50980 <blockquote><p>I wish they would just throw Snowe under the <strike>bus</strike> plow.</p></blockquote> <p>Fixed it for you.</p>

I wish they would just throw Snowe under the bus plow.

Fixed it for you.

]]> By: Leen http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50979 Leen Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:06:55 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/10/05/the-high-price-of-snowe/#comment-50979 <p>I wish they would just throw Snowe under the bus. Stop with the going for bipartisan support. Fuck them and let them go down with the ship</p> I wish they would just throw Snowe under the bus. Stop with the going for bipartisan support. Fuck them and let them go down with the ship

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