Stop Celebrating Snowe

Attention all dems dancing around and crowing that Maine's ridiculous Olympia Snowe voted in favor of the Senate Finance Committee's health NON-reform bill:

Calm the fuck down. This is not good. This is bad.

The vote was 14-9, with Snowe's the only repug vote. The dems didn't need Snowe's vote; without it, the final vote would have been 13-10 and it would have been a pure Democratic victory.

Making a scene over getting Snowe's vote dilutes a Democratic victory and shits in the face of the Democrats on the committee who stayed united to get the bill passed.

The Finance Committee Bill is - are you paying attention? - a piece of shit that never should have made it out of committee. Getting it to the floor means that the eventual Senate compromise bill is going to be far, far worse than the excellent HELP bill that Ted Kennedy created. Read Jon Walker's piece at Firedoglake for details.

As for all the hysteria over Snowe "bravely" defying the repug leaders who threatened her with all kinds of punishment if she dared to vote with the dems, and the giddy predictions that she might actually change parties: you've been pwnd.

Hate to piss in the punchbowl, but that four-square bitch is gonna keep cock-teasing the dems right up until the final vote on the conference report, when she's the only thing standing between Barack Obama and the greatest Democratic victory in 70 years, and THEN she's gonna vote No.

They'll make her majority leader for it.