Much is being made of Sen. Olympia Snowe’s lone Republican vote in favor of the Senate Finance Committee health care bill. From the New York Times:
“Is this bill all that I would want?” Ms. Snowe said. “Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls. And I [...]

First sentence from today’s AP story on Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe’s growing prominence in the health care debate:
“They call her “President Snowe” in the blogosphere.”
We haven’t come across that nickname yet, but a perusal of various online opinion shows a marked obsession with the Senator most-likely-to-secede from the closed ranks of the Republican caucus on [...]