Remember when protesters at this summer’s town hall meetings started chanting “Read the bill! Read the bill!“?
Friends, don’t let this happen to you.
The Senate Finance Committee has now posted its health care bill—all 1,502 pages of it—so that it’s viewable for anyone to see.
A couple of quick observations:
First, unlike a lot of web-based [...]

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 [...]