Politics: Interview with Olympia Snowe - nytimes.com/video

Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, discusses the health care bill with John Harwood of The New York Times and CNBC.

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[Mharding123]

I am very impressed with Olympia Snowe.  I just wish more Senators were like her in their approach - informed, principled, responsible. Many Repubilicans seem especially recently to placing politcs, rhetoric and winning at any cost, way above having reasoned informed debate. I am a life long Democrat, but have deep respect for Senator Snowe.

[DiverseLA]

God Bless Olympia Snowe.

Great to see a moderate, level-headed Republican.

She's from a liberal state. What do you expect. Republicans from that state tend to be more moderate than a Republican from say, Mississippi.

Signed,

A Liberal-Progressive

[EdwardP88]

why? because she's willing to work with a president not of her party and wants to just move Forward instead of constant arguing. If Obama isn't reelected and we get a Republican president they'll do the same thing you want the Republicans to do... i like it when people can just work together to move the country forward I'm a Democrat don't get me wrong but it works a lot better when people work together. So i admire Olympia Snowe for willing to work with President Obama.

[DiverseLA]

Okay.

[xaviqaz]

Democrats from southern states or nothern "purple" districts tend to be moderate too

[Eve Hernandez]

This Republican fool supports S. 773 "The Cybersecurity Act" GTFO!

[rw5791]

Wow,the democrats get one vote from a so called "republican" and they become like a pack of hyena's.They are smelling fresh meat now.

[DiverseLA]

The Iraq War was completely avoidable -- don't try to cloud it up and pretend Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. This was a war of opportunity taken on by Dick Cheney who took advantage of the post-9/11 climate in order to invade Iraq.

So, I agree that any President would've took military action in Afghanistan following 9/11. But Al Gore would've never invaded Iraq. That was purely a neoconservative agenda.

[DiverseLA]

How could it be "moderate" if it has been consistently blue for a long time, and the entire New England region has increased in Democratic membership. Even New Hampshire, the most conservative New England state, has pushed further to the left.

Republicans have pretty much lost the northeast.

[JohnRhysMusician]

Maine is hardly a liberal state. It is a very moderate state. One of its congresspeople is a pro-life Democrat who has consistently beat pro-choice Republicans. Maine's Democratic Party is more conservative both socially and fiscally than the national party, and its Republican Party is more liberal socially and is also more libertarian in platform.

[JohnRhysMusician]

I said they have always been a more fiscally conservative party, meaning the Republican party has been more concerned about spending in general. I am one of the first Republicans to say that spending under the Bush administration was out of control, however you must not discount that Bush took office and left office with recessions, severe Hurricanes occured, and 2 wars as a result of terrorist attacks.

[DiverseLA]

Maybe they go by the video itself and not how many comments/views.