This piece from Politico offers some useful insight into the extent to which Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is under just as much political pressure to oppose health care reform as she is to support it.
Conservative members of her caucus aren’t being particularly shy about where they stand.
“It would be terrible if one Republican chose to basically sell out the whole Conference,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), “particularly in return for some naive idea that we can get some compromise here and that it’s going to hold up in [a House-Senate] conference.”
“If Republicans are unanimous or maybe unanimous but one — that puts a real spotlight on anybody who does differ from all of their colleagues,” said Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ)
And that’s just what they’re saying publicly.
