Yesterday Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said he’d filibuster a health care bill if it contains a public option. Many reporters and analysts took this as a sign that an alternative political strategy of courting Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), who prefers the public option only as a fall back, would re-emerge.
Well, Snowe herself disagrees.
“I don’t see how you get to 60 [votes to replace the public option with a trigger],” Snowe told reporters last night.
Having a public option in the bill, she said, will “make it infinitely more difficult to change that on the floor…I just don’t see how that works.”
For what it’s worth, Lieberman also said he opposes the trigger option yesterday, too. So he’s not necessarily making a public push to get Snowe back into the game.
