Olympia Snowe Health Care

Misfits: Eight Politicians Who Should Just Switch Parties

Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


RINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elect...

Senate "Moderates" Delaying Health Care Bill With Demands

The Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Moderate lawmakers are exerting their outsize influence in the divided Senate to secure changes to health-care reform legislation, potentially adding ...

Olympia Snowe Still Opposes Public Option Because it's Too Good

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics


Jonathan Weiler

Snowe's blindly ideological view on health care asserts, against common sense, that even when the outcome is likely to be inferior, we should prefer "private" solutions.

Sam Stein

Frist: Snowe Not Enough, Five More GOPers Needed For Successful Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics


Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist caused a stir inside political circles two weeks ago when he said that he'd vote for Democratic-authored heal...

Senate GOP: We Won't Punish Snowe For Health Care Vote

Politico | LISA LERER & MANU RAJU | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics


Mitch McConnell and his deputies in the Senate Republican leadership are responding very cautiously to Olympia Snowe's decision to become the first GO...

Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan

Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Robert Reich

Here's what's likely to happen if Snowe signs on to the Baucus bill, and if she doesn't. The next few weeks are crucial.