After months of negotiating, struggling, and agonizing, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) has come off the fence. She does not support the Senate health care bill. That’s much to President Obama’s disappointment. As recently as this weekend he was trying to bring her into the fold.
“He was trying to solicit my support for this legislation,” Snowe told reporters.
But is she out of the picture for good? The answer is: probably. But she’s not ruling out voting for the legislation that comes out of negotiations between the House and Senate.
I asked her if she’d ruled out voting for the conference report.
“I have no idea…and I said I would help to play a constructive role in any way that I could,” Snowe said. “But I wanted time to be able to modify this legislation. I mean, it really, it, I think it defies logic and reasonableness on this generational change that is transcendent for the President and for Congress, and not to have the opportunity to amend it. I mean it’s almost absurd, frankly.”
So. Not likely. But maybe!
