Grassley Seemingly Predicts Snowe No Vote On Health Care Reform

Looks like he's wrong. Snowe is voting Aye.

I hope the gang of six has been bribed well by MedMob. I also hope they had MedMob set aside pensions or some sort of profit-sharing for them into the future. Somehow, with 80% of public approval, if the Public Option is killed by them..I just get this feeling like running as democrats isn't going to work out for them next time around and politics may not be in their future at all.

When I think of it, I'm thinking voters will be presented with a website to visit in the election cycles from now until ? listing each candidate's position on the Public Option...yes..then those politicians so brazen as to thwart clear democracy by majority-rule will be duly rewarded for their efforts. You can kill it in the past, you can try to kill it today..but at 80% with the audacity levels rising in worsening coverage and the system buckling...you better believe we're going to get our Public Option. It's merely a matter of time.

So listen up politicians..if you want to be on the losing side, just carry on. And I hope there's enough bribe money for all of you when you no longer have jobs as mouthpieces for MegaIndustry. [BigOil, you listening? Are you willing to let go of your moles in favor of MedMob's inevitable loss anyway?]

I seems Elrod is correct but it ain't over till it's over.

GOP's Snowe to vote for Senate panel's health care bill

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said Tuesday she will vote for the Senate Finance Committee's $829 billion health care bill.

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"People do have concerns about what we will do with reform, but at the same time they want us to continue working -- and that is what my vote to approve this bill out of committee represents," she said.

"I do it with reservations because I share my Republican colleagues' trepidation about what will transpire on the Senate floor, what will emerge in the House-Senate conference, and how, indeed, the Finance Committee bill will be merged with the (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee) bill."

The panting and drooling is about to begin. Will CNN pre-empt its normal program, or even schedule it around the vote? [snicker] Will the kiddies lose their self-control once Olympia Snowe casts her vote?

"Snowe[, Acceptable Republican, ] is voting Aye."

She joined her fellow Dems -- the legislation was approved this afternoon. Time for a full Senate vote and then the showdown at the conference with the House (Dems). How much the final legislation get pulled to the left is still an open question, as is the fate of the public option (the big House bargaining chip).