Discussion: Olympia Snowe Undermines Supreme Court Case Against Obamacare

[ncsteve]

Great. None of this is in the brief and Scalia, at least, only reads and watches conservative media.

[frankly_my_dear]

@THX1138

She must have missed the memo where her own party was a cult of spite-driven sociopaths that don’t give a shit about things like an adequate healthcare system or the political fallout of watching people die from lack of coverage.

She did get the memo. That’s why she resigned from the Senate.

[emilianoelmexicano]

@Leftflank

If they all suffer in some way or another, including death, they will still go forward with the dumbest of the dumb because they are blinded by hate and sheer meanness. There is no kryptonite and common sense or shame aren’t making the slightest dent

And a sympathetic Chuck Todd will fill us all in on their (TeaBaggers’) dazzling logic.

[hoppy]

I watched the sun rise this morning and confirmed that it didn’t rise in the west.

[leftflank]

I’ll never see it. Why would I, in fact?

[jimtoday]

It doesn’t matter. Facts mean nothing. The scurrilous case of Bush v. Gore of 2000, and the ensuing Bush Supreme Court appointees have damaged America in a myriad of ways, now and for years to come. We will never fully grasp the level of criminality and vandalism done to our civil rights by these events.

[slbinva]

@Frankly_my_dear

That’s why she resigned from the Senate.

Well – retired from the Senate. She didn’t leave mid-term, she simply chose not to run for re-election in 2012.

[bobcar04]

Ms Snowe is defiantly not a profile in courage. She gives this information 1 or 2 weeks before SCOTUS is to hand down a decision already made. What a joke.

[jordanolsen26]

It is widely believed the entire law will fall apart without the subsidies and Republican lawmakers have so far failed to come up with a back-up plan in the case of a ruling against Obamacare.

Perhaps I’m wrong here, but doesn’t this require fixing one or two sentences in the bill? How is this not a backup plan?

Even if the law isn’t struck down, the fact that this whole thing could have been avoided by simply changing a few words so that the law actually says what it was meant to should be on every Democratic talking point. This is the clearest example of how the GOP are unfit for public office.

[schleppers]

reminiscent of the Congressman from Florida’s version of the Rethuglican view of health care: DON’T GET SICK. IF YOU GET SICK, DIE QUICKLY!

[LBJsPNS]

Why is it that anyone refers to this person as a “moderate Republican”? If anything, she’s more completely full of hypocritical shit than most members of her party, in that she pretends to be a voice of reason, but when push comes to shove, votes in lockstep with the most radically reactionary members of her party. If she were any more completely full of crap her head would explode.

[borisjimbo]

I think the modern term is either Confederalist Society or Feudalist Society.

[randyabraham]

Wingnuts calling for Senator Snowe’s retroactive impeachment in 4, 3, 2, 1 …

[emilianoelmexicano]

@LBJsPNS

Why is it that anyone refers to this person as a “moderate Republican”?

In the sense of the stunning portrayal of Ernst Janning in the film “Judgement at Nuremberg”:

“Moderate Nazi”

[randyabraham]

Unfortunately, due to the right wing freak-out that erupted in Nov. 2008 and which shows no signs of abating, any Republican who does not call for President Obama to “come out with your hands up” and face citizen justice from real Americans is considered a “moderate.”

Having said that, in Snowe’s defense she, and two other Republican Senators, did vote in favor of the ARRA – the 2009 stimulus.

[frankly_my_dear]

@LBJsPNS

Why is it that anyone refers to this person as a “moderate Republican”?

On the basis of facts.

Club for Growth’s Senate scorecard 2012

                              Rank   Score %   Lifetime

IN	R	Lugar, Richard	40	52	64%	
ME	R	Snowe, Olympia	41	50	32%	
MS	R	Cochran, Thad	42	48	68%	
MA	R	Brown, Scott	43	42	51%	
ND	R	Hoeven, John	43	42	54%	
AK	R	Murkowski, Lisa	45	41	61%	
ME	R	Collins, Susan	46	38	37%

Richard Lugar (now Sir Richard Lugar) was widely known as a “moderate Republican”. In fact he was so moderate that he was primaried by Tea Partier Todd Akin out of the party nomination in 2012. Still, Olympia Snowe voted with CfG less than he did. And while Susan Collins was the lowest ranked Republican by CfG for 2012, Snowe still had a lower lifetime record of voting with CfG by 5 points. In fact, Snowe has the lowest lifetime record of voting with CfG of any Republican Senator.

[jjrothery]

Very true. I’m also not so sure at this point anything Snowe says will have any bearing, since arguments have already been heard on the case.

It was a dog’s breakfast right out of the gate with the plaintiffs. How it even made it before SCOTUS I personally believe is entirely a function of the activist levels of the right wing faction of that court.

[callmelefty]

Tell it like it is. However, having occasionally been around very wealthy people, (a lot of Republicans)) I think they just…don’t care. It doesn’t enter into their world space. As long as they don’t have to pay their fair share of taxes.

[frankly_my_dear]

@SLBinVA

Well – retired from the Senate. She didn’t leave mid-term, she simply chose not to run for re-election in 2012.

True, but she had some harsh remarks on the state of the Senate that made it more than just a decision not to seek reelection. Let’s call it a retirement with attitude.

The Real Reason Olympia Snowe Quit

[dave_mb]

They ran something like 88 scenarios through the OMB.

Not a single one of them had provisions for the State’s not getting subsidies.