BREAKING: Snowe not running!!!!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Does this mean both House seats might be open?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

After her birth control mandate vote, good riddance.

I will say just opposite: "Thank you, Senator Snowe, for being true to your principles. Even after announcing retirement.."

What are her principles?

I too am wondering this, unless the Golden Mean Fallacy can be considered a principle.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I feel bad for Snowe, but if she had actually carved out some coherent thought process or political praxis that was moderate rather than just trying to play balancing acts for her whole career she might not have ended up in this situation.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I feel bad for Snowe, but if she had actually carved out some coherent thought process or political praxis that was moderate rather than just trying to play balancing acts for her whole career she might not have ended up in this situation.

The Republican party doesn't welcome moderates.

I meant if she had done so from the beginning. If she had a more forceful personality she might be able to just spend her time trolling the rest of the Senate Republican Conference the way Murkowski, who isn't even actually particularly moderate all things considered (or, at least, who didn't used to be), does.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I too am wondering this, unless the Golden Mean Fallacy can be considered a principle.

Look at my answer to redcommander))))

Very admirable things, except in this situation it wasn't often that she was compromising constructively so much as, as somebody else pointed out, being willing to vote for pretty much anything as long as it was or seemed to be a cheaper version of something else. I have no doubt that she valued moderation and compromise and practiced them to the best of her ability but she just wasn't forceful enough to be a successful broker most of the time.