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Bipartisan Facade Can't Hide Health Plan's Flaws

Charles2040 Wrote: Oct 18, 2009 10:13 PM
"When history calls," Snowe said to explain her vote, "history calls."
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Does this mean there has been a favor in the past and whomever gave it to her is calling in their ticket (history calls)?

If the Democrats' health care package is so great, why are President Obama and Dem congressional leaders so hungry to share the credit for its passage with a Republican?

It's not as if D.C. Dems are opposed to hogging the glory when a federal program is popular. So why did Obama feel the need to announce after the Senate Finance Committee passed a health care measure with the support of Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, that the measure "enjoys the support of people from both parties" -- when this one bill enjoyed the support of one lone-wolf Republican?

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