Democrats chastise Snowe over health care 'influence'
Ok. First of all, this is another Headline that does not jibe with its story, because the story says:
Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Virginia, said he understands how important it is to President Obama to be able to call his health care bill bipartisan.
"It looks as though the way the White House is maneuvering right now, that it is incredibly important to them to get at least one Republican, that being Olympia Snowe."
"This is the United States of America. This is not the United States of Maine," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-California. "I mean that one senator cannot hold the entire nation's health care plan hostage."
Get it? They're not chastising Snowe, but rather, the Obama White House, for their apparent focus on her at the expense of what the Amerian people both want and need. Democrats have said, and do in this story, that they dislike the "trigger" option Snowe wants:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, blasted the idea of a trigger option.
"The idea that we are going to succumb to the insurance industry's fears and then do a trigger, which means that our constituency -- the American people -- will delay in getting a public option, that's like the house of cards just collapsing on top of us," she said.
But one last time: That's disagreeing on an issue of substance. It's not "chastising" anybody.
But then, CNN has made this story about "Democrats vs."
the challenge now for Democrats is that Snowe opposes what most of them support: a government-sponsored health care option.
Except that the so-called "public option" is what most Americans support (and most doctors). I find that important information, and I would've included it in the story.
Certainly before I would've quoted someone as silly as John Boehner, who says Christians are born that way, but gays aren't (and that's just his latest asinine statement).
CNN gives space to a content-free statement from him, I guess because they're forever in search of that false equivalence.
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