Olympia Snowe- The GOP's True Maverick

The Democrats are grateful to Maine’s Senator Olympia Snowe for supporting the proposed health care bill. Unfortunately, she’s done little to impact the outcome. It’s sort of like hitting a solo home run in the 9th inning when your team is ahead by ten runs. It makes you feel good, but that’s about all.

Except for Senator Snowe, the Party-of-No looked pathetically like the bad boys in school being questioned by the teacher for a classroom prank- not looking us in the eye, almost appearing ashamed, they each quietly mumbled “no” when asked how they vote. They must've thought people wouldn’t notice if they said no quietly .  Yes, they stuck with their party to oppose the Democrats on this and every issue, but this time they let their constituents down. They knew it. They weren’t defiant. They were ashamed. They let America down. They should be ashamed.

Senator Snowe can sleep well knowing she stood for the interests of her constituents and did the right thing. She is a true maverick- not like the hairbrained redneck from Alaska. It was a courageous act, even if it doesn’t count for anything. If making law is like making sausage, there’s still a glimmer of hope that stupid elements of the Finance Committee’s version may be fixed as the bill gestates it’s way through the final process- we’ll see.