The damage Olympia Snowe does to healthcare in America

Sen. Snowe urged the president to withdraw the public option because Republicans were universally against it. What kind of argument is this? That’s like asking the chicken to vote for Col. Sanders because the chicken eaters are hungry.

I oppose the Finance Committee version of the healthcare bill, and hope and believe it will be dramatically changed before it goes to conference. I believe the public option lives and the fight must be waged all out, in full force.

The Senate Finance Committee wasted an eternity with bogus negotiations with a Group of Six that represented only small states and included two Republicans who would never vote for a good healthcare bill, and one Republican who should be a Democrat but opposes the most important provision because she says it is universally opposed by members of her party, which she states has left her on major issues.

Andrew Jackson once said that “one man with courage makes a majority.”

Olympia Snowe demonstrates that the healthcare of America can be distorted and disrupted by one senator who says she wants healthcare to be affordable but votes to make healthcare less affordable.