Three Republican Senators are Worth More Than 76% of the Country

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I wrote last week about the compromise in the Finance Committee being brewed by Baucus, Enzi and Snowe. This evening Snowe is giving details to the New York Times:

Already, the group of six has tossed aside the idea of a government-run insurance plan that would compete with private insurers, which the president supports but Republicans said was a deal-breaker.

Instead, they are proposing a network of private, nonprofit cooperatives.

The three Republicans are Snowe, Enzi and Grassley. The Democrats are Baucus, Bingaman and Kent "co-ops" Conrad.

The Finance Committee was supposed to deal with -- wait for it -- finance. Instead, President Baucus and President Snowe decided that they'd just write the whole damn bill themselves and have included a competing co-op plan that would replace the public plan offered by the HELP committee.

Because three Republican Senators are worth more than 76% of the country to members of the most exclusive club in the world.

They certainly have a mighty high opinion of themselves.

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I guess we are now ruled by overlords.

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1. "I guess we are now ruled by overlords."

We have a Dem House, Senate and President..... and Bi-partisan is NOW important?

Remember when Congress admitted getting public outcry 300 to 1 against the bailout, in 2008?
But passed the bailout anyhow?
That's when I quit "guessing".