Yesterday's Senate Finance Committee vote to pass Max Baucus' pig of a health care bill out to the Senate floor for debate and vote was hardly the surprise so many liberals made it to be.
Yes, even though turncoat Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, it was still a slam dunk along party lines. True, Wonderboy singled her out for her vote. That alone should make Maine Republicans toss her out of the party.
On the other hand, I will say that Snowe made it clear she only voted to get it out of committee so it could be debated on the floor. Mind you, Baucus had no need of her vote.
Charles Krauthammer noted, on Fox News last night, that Snow won't likely vote for either the reconciliation bill coming out of the Senate Finance and Health Committee conference, since it may contain the public option. Ditto for the result of the House conference.
Thus, he observed, Wonderboy's lauding of Snowe for 'reaching across the aisle' will be hollow and look foolishly premature.
But what's new about that and our First Rookie?
What really amused me, however, was the breathless manner in which CNBC's resident socialist, John Harwood, reported the passage as if it had ever been in doubt.
Honestly, the liberal media just won't quit. Making it out like a major moment that one Senate committee, dominated by Democrats, finally squeezed their own bill out among their own members.
Will it ever really make it into law? Time will tell, but know this. It's already mid-October. Those two gubernatorial elections are in about three weeks.
And next year, every Senator and Representative who voted for passage of this bill's descendant may well face loss of her or his seat.
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