Republican Peer Pressure (PP)

“When history calls….history calls” the lady said. When Republicans apply PP to their contemporaries, like many things in life, it must be an acquired taste like enjoying S&M, a good piece of music or eating Russian Caviar. Not so with Sen. Olympia Snowe who *“…made this statement upon being the only Republican on the Senate Finance Committee to vote for health care reform enabling it to pass committee.”

An odd statement indeed to make and especially if you are trying to ignore regurgitating the popular reply, “When duty calls, the youth replies ‘I can’”. But to Ms. Snowe she was making history (Joan de Arc or Norma Desmond, anyone?) and making history she continues. When movies, musicals and perhaps even operas are created memorializing moments leading up to the vote, women will cut off their right arms to be Olympia Snowe while fathers, girl friends, wives and mothers threaten their men not to come back home with the role of Max Baucus saying collectively, “We don’t want that kind of personality no way in this house! Now if you were to come home with the role of Obama….”
As always,
BB

*Olympia Snowe: “When History Calls, History Calls”
Excerpt:
“When history calls, history calls,” Snowe said at the committee hearing, but she reiterated her opposition to a government-run insurance option and cautioned that she does not want the bill to get any more expensive as the process moves forward.
Read more at:
http://www.alan.com/2009/10/13/olympia-snowe-when-history-calls-history-calls/