Snowe and Lincoln will determine everything. Watch how Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln vote in the Senate Finance Committee on the Baucus version of the Obama healthcare plan. As Snowe and Lincoln go, so will the Congress.
The Democrats need Snowe’s vote desperately, to convince wavering moderate Democrats that they can offer a veneer, however thin, of bipartisanship to the health proposal. If Snowe, their last chance at a Republican vote, opposes the Obama/Baucus proposal, there is no hope of a bipartisan fig leaf for the package.
I think the government is structured to thwart bipart. I have just posted on the Senate, suggesting that it reform is needed. To read, pls see http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-u-s-senate-what-is-it-really/
Comment by euandus — October 28, 2009 @ 12:47 pm