Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the most likely Republican vote for the Democratic health care bill, told reporters Thursday that she would not vote to ...
James Sanders | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Are the Democrats missing the big picture? If they are, heaven help the sick. Until common ground is found, those millions of American citizens that are sick and without health insurance might not be able to hold on.
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The president's Achilles heel is his need to present an image always above the fray. Our brilliant Obama loves his self image too much.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home
OCT. 18, 2009, NEWS UPDATE Senate Finance Committee approves sweeping health care reform bill by vote of 14-9 -- including, gasp, a Republican. Tha...
Sahil Kapur | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The main source of tension is that preserving Snowe's vote will likely require sacrificing the public insurance option, a provision supported by a majority of the public but opposed by Republicans and conservative activists.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Comedy
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a special guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week to reprise his role as "The Rock Obama." This was by far ...
Ben Berkon | Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy
In political news, Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, has publicly decided to sign the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, controversially depriving the United States of its poor health care.
David Sirota | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The idea that her vote was/is pivotal is a fantasy created by a Beltway media always trying to manufacture drama.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Olympia Snowe's vote might not have been a tie-breaker, but it was a mood-shifter. And at least she's not the kind who gloats, flaunts her influence and does a victory dance when the bargaining is done.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Senator Harry Reid's office is pushing back against reports that the Majority Leader is planning to include Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) among the group ...
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...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.
Simon Sinek | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Neither party does a good job of contextualizing why they have the opinions they do in the first place. Though both parties know why America exists, neither party can tell you why it exists.
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
It might be insider baseball, but the split in reporting on how Democrats secured Snowe's vote shows the extent to which the health care reform battle has gone on behind closed doors.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
If there was any lingering doubt about the ethical bankruptcy of the health care cartel, we now have incontrovertible evidence in the form of a new report commissioned by the health insurance lobby.
Marie Wilson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The Republican Party's stubborn adherence to partisanship on health care is alienating a huge portion of the party -- Republican women -- and is giving rise to an impending revolt.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
In Washington, the oldest snakes in the health care debate finally emerged this week. After months of dithering and slithering, the insurance industry is going in for the kill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
So, just in case you were sprawled under a heavy rock, yesterday, chillaxing, the exciting health care reform news is that Senator Olympia Snowe -- th...
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Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
I was wrong to think that no Republican would vote for reform. I was wrong to think that Baucus had been wasting his time. I was wrong to assume that there was no point to negotiating or giving up anything.
Robert Scheer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The health care debate has become a convenient distraction, for both political parties, from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) believes more Republicans will vote for the health care reform bill in its final phase. During an interview on Tuesday,...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy
Orly Taitz, leader of the so-called "birther" movement, said that Sen. Snowe's vote was "textbook Kenyan" behavior. "She's putting her tribe first," Ms. Taitz said.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
There may be just one Republican member of the entire Congress who publicly states her support for health care legislation. And that member may stress...
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 10.13.2009 | Style
As the Senate Finance Committee prepares for Tuesday's huge health care vote, all eyes are on Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine. Will she become the firs...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics