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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 02:56 PM
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24. Snowe will provide the 60th vote for cloture...
...and then vote against the conference report. Collins votes no on both.

The cloture vote is what matters.
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  -Snowe, Collins Will Not Back Public Option babylonsister  Sep-13-09 02:24 PM   #0 
  - Out of the way then, ladies. . .DEMS GO IT ALONE! n/t  emulatorloo   Sep-13-09 02:25 PM   #1 
  - I wonder how their constituents feel about this...arn't they from basically  movonne   Sep-13-09 03:20 PM   #32 
  - Reconciliation takes 50 Democrats in the Senate.  Jackpine Radical   Sep-13-09 02:29 PM   #2 
  - Amen to that!  DFW   Sep-13-09 02:37 PM   #14 
  - Who made Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins "the bosses of us"?  SoCalDem   Sep-13-09 02:29 PM   #3 
  - +10  bluethruandthru   Sep-13-09 02:31 PM   #5 
  - They aren't the bosses, they are the excuse.  mmonk   Sep-13-09 02:34 PM   #9 
  - Agreed 100%. n/t  Joe the Liberal   Sep-13-09 02:34 PM   #10 
  - what a great analogy. It deserves it's own thread if you get a chance!  KittyWampus   Sep-13-09 03:09 PM   #28 
  - As a vegan . . .  abumbyanyothername   Sep-13-09 06:21 PM   #45 
  - I think all these opposed to a strong public option ought to be  JerseygirlCT   Sep-13-09 02:30 PM   #4 
  - That's exactly right. If the public option is off the table,  Vinca   Sep-13-09 02:32 PM   #7 
  - Yup. And don't let them wiggle into other, weaker  JerseygirlCT   Sep-13-09 02:39 PM   #16 
  - +1  mvd   Sep-13-09 02:38 PM   #15 
  - They're both being stupid  DJ13   Sep-13-09 02:32 PM   #6 
  - I assume Maine is proud of them for it?  aquart   Sep-13-09 02:52 PM   #19 
  - What this means is that the Whitehouse has rejected a trigger  grantcart   Sep-13-09 02:32 PM   #8 
  - Explain...  HughMoran   Sep-13-09 02:37 PM   #12 
  - For Snowe to turn away from her own idea at this point can only  grantcart   Sep-13-09 02:53 PM   #20 
     - Thanks  HughMoran   Sep-13-09 02:57 PM   #25 
     - Interesting analysis, Grant. I think your last sentence nails it.  Parker CA   Sep-13-09 03:04 PM   #26 
  - Oh, I so want that to be true.  aquart   Sep-13-09 02:54 PM   #21 
  - Well, so much for these Republican trolls.  HughMoran   Sep-13-09 02:34 PM   #11 
  - They may be seeing the handwriting on the wall. n/t  BumRushDaShow   Sep-13-09 02:37 PM   #13 
  - They don't have to support it  alcibiades_mystery   Sep-13-09 02:40 PM   #17 
  - Go it alone....  Hepburn   Sep-13-09 02:50 PM   #18 
  - we keep calling them moderates. acting like a chance they will switch sides. they NEVER  seabeyond   Sep-13-09 02:54 PM   #22 
  - Good. We'll do it with reconciliation and none of those asshats will be able to claim a shred of  Parker CA   Sep-13-09 02:56 PM   #23 
  - Snowe will provide the 60th vote for cloture...  Davis_X_Machina   Sep-13-09 02:56 PM   #24 
  - I don't see 59 for cloture: Ben Nelson, Bayh, Landreiu, Pryor, Lincoln voting for  AlinPA   Sep-13-09 03:11 PM   #30 
     - Yep. Party line plus Snowe for cloture.  Davis_X_Machina   Sep-13-09 05:39 PM   #39 
        - Great. I do hope you are right. (I love your "cloture=expensive women's clothing from France"!)  AlinPA   Sep-13-09 06:15 PM   #41 
  - Makes sense -- they've kept the people of Maine poor and ill-used for YEARS  Donnachaidh   Sep-13-09 03:04 PM   #27 
  - we don't need them. have fun being on the losing side of History, ladies  Aramchek   Sep-13-09 03:11 PM   #29 
  - screw them.  endless october   Sep-13-09 03:15 PM   #31 
  - Oh boy....  Nikki Stone1   Sep-13-09 03:30 PM   #33 
  - Why does Maine have such allegiance to these two stupid people.  RelativelyJones   Sep-13-09 03:49 PM   #34 
  - Because they appear to not be...  Davis_X_Machina   Sep-13-09 06:02 PM   #40 
  - She got infected sitting with the rest of them at Obama's speech.  graywarrior   Sep-13-09 03:51 PM   #35 
  - The public option as outlined by Obama isn't a public option  debbierlus   Sep-13-09 03:52 PM   #36 
  - I could've told you this a couple of weeks ago,...  MarianJack   Sep-13-09 03:55 PM   #37 
  - fuckem...go after the democrats, ...squeeze their nuts  spanone   Sep-13-09 04:02 PM   #38 
  - Damn right. nt  AlinPA   Sep-13-09 06:16 PM   #42 
  - "Moderate" Corporate Shills........  marmar   Sep-13-09 06:16 PM   #43 
  - Yes, it seems all the back bending and somersaulting to get their votes  Cleita   Sep-13-09 06:21 PM   #44 
  - Good. Dare them to filibuster.  Frank Booth   Sep-13-09 06:26 PM   #46 
  - Well then, screw that trigger sh  mzmolly   Sep-13-09 06:27 PM   #47 
 

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