Senator Snowe, a Republican, Backs Health Care Bill

From the New York Times:

Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine indicated that she would support the Finance Committee health care bill, although she withheld support for future versions of the legislation. She is the only Republican senator to have voiced support for the bill.

This is neither surprising or news because:
1. Olympia Snow is a RINO (Republican in Name Only) and wow. So ONE Republican in Congress supported the bill. That hardly makes this bill bi-partisan.
2. Everyone knows how she's going to vote, anyway. Nine times out of ten it's with the Democrats. I saw this one coming since 2004.

She went on to say “Is this bill all that I want? Far from it,” Ms. Snowe declared. “Is it all that it can be? Far from it. But when history calls, history calls.”

So you don't like the bill? Then don't vote for it, you [insert Tim Clarkson's favorite derogatory phrase here]!!!!! Work to get the bill you want passed. Don't settle. Don't compromise on absolute shit just for the sake of getting something passed.

And what, exactly, does "when history calls, history calls" mean? I think we've learned from electing Barack Obama that it's ill-advised to do something n a national level just for the sake of saying that you did it? Is it ever okay to do something just so you can say you did it? For the sake of history? Climbing a mountain? Yes. Riding the MS150? Absolutely? Ramming government healthcare down the throats of the American public and therefor stripping of of yet more choice and freedom? Uh...no.