He listens to Obama! Tobad he would not listen to the POEPLE OF MAINE!! Can't wait to see his name in the voting booth again so I can vote for who ever else is running agains him.

His changes that he won't vote for this bad idea is about as much as Baldacci shutting down his failure Dirigo Health. . Mike Michaud will vote just the way Pelosi and Obama tell him too. And as for money coming to Maine When Hell Freezes over, when Pigs Fly come to , Obama will put the screws to Michuad and Maine as soon as he has his vote!

VOTERS OF MAINE SOLD OUT AGAIN. IT WAS PEOPLE LIKE HIME THAT VOTED YOUR JOB OVERSEAS

Thank goodness the Mike received "assurances" that our problems with Medicare payments will be solved. Up until now I thought we received nothing for Mikes vote, but we those "assurances" we are saved! I just do not understand that if nearly half the bill is being paid for by cuts on Medicare than how is that going to solve Maine's problem. Are the cuts in Maine going to be less?

agreed zatwoodz....I voted for him in 2006 but I already let him know he lost my vote for 2010 via e-mail. It is exactly this bargaining on the side to get votes that is sending the country down the tubes and increasing pork barrel spending...

Thankfully, Mike Michaud is listening to the people of Maine...we want health care to be reformed!!

The people of the State of Maine, as well as the majority of this nation want healthcare reform. I applaud Mike Michaud for working towards that goal. However, I must agree that the sideshow politics is what leads to rampant spending! Unfortunately you have to play the system the way everyone else does, or the great State of Maine will get shorted! Hopefully the end justifies the means.

Mike went to the whitehouse to solicit a bribe for his vote (like the senator from Louisiana) and discussed the issue over a cold glass of Koolaid. Earth to Mike.. we're not drinking the Koolaid but we're taking notes. I have a vote next November that doesn't have your name on it.

lets see so i guess that means mojority is 38 percent, as that is what the latest polls show support for this health care bill at. the problem is what they are doing is not reform it is killing the plan to force every oen into one plan that they can control. you will have doctors in wasghtion saying what pills you can or cant have, what foods you can or cant eat. Hell look at the news even soem univertiys are trying to make people pass physical education just get a diploma if they have high BMI. Is this the reform you want goverment to be in every part of your life if it is then move becasue over 50 percent that is the majority of people dont want this plan.

“The president made it clear he was willing to work with me and Sen. [Olympia] Snowe on the Medicare issue as it relates to Maine,” ........Yeah, right!!! Michaud and Snowe fell for the old " Obama cares about Maine and Medicare" trick !!

"Another idea was to somehow dismiss Maine from its obligation to repay the federal government an annual $40 million prescription drug obligation related to the high number of low-income, elderly Mainers who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid" "SOMEHOW"?? Give me a break! Any time the word "somehow" is used in connection with a plan you know there is NO PLAN!! C'mon Michaud you just fell for the infamous Obama charm and more USELESS rhetoric.

A Louisiana senator got $300 million for her vote. I guess the vote of a Maine Congressman just isn't worth as much...

he's just a pelosi lap dog who's drinking more of the obama 'kool-aid'....

we will soon be known as the U.S.S.A. (United Socialist States America)

I bet he was ticked off when he found how much money he could have held out for.

These pay offs by State are WRONG and they are unfair yet everyone seems to accept this sort of graft as if it was business as usual.

This is a bad sign for our country and I'm afraid we don't have much longer to call ourselves a country.

Too bad, we started out so well.

Wow, talk about 2 idiots putting their heads together. These two probably couldn't figure out how to drive from Freeport to Houlton without getting lost.

MICHAUD NEEDS TO GO! The majority of people do NOT want government run health care. He is NOT listening to the people of Maine. In addition to the health care plan, he voted for the Cap and Trade bill which would be devastating to everyone, but especially to the folks in Maine. I know a lot of people who voted for Michuad and are now VERY upset with his voting record. They tell me they would never vote for him again. Michaud is a goner in 2010. He'd better get his fork lift license renewed. I hear the mill calling his name......hopefully it will still be open in 2010.

Traitor to his Party, why do we keep getting people like Michaud in office?.

Mainers are starting to wake up from their 30 year moonbat and Kool-Aid nap.

Michaud needs to go.

militaryman You are right poeple do want health care reform. But not this debt busting bill. It can be done without spending 1.4 trillion of our, our kids and their kids money. Our grandkids are looking a taxes well over 50% of their income if this happens.

zatwoodz and militaryman and now Electraglide All Stand for the Same thing and the reasons why our happens the way it does.

That is What I think most People are Mad About is the Political Process

Done by both Sides of the Isle

The best FOR ME is A Single Payer System

And guess WHAT you do NOT have to RE-Invent the WHEEL<<

Why is it that people can't come up with a better metaphor than "drinking the kool aid?" Not only is it unoriginal and stupid, it does an injustice to the victims of Jim Jones. It has got to be the most overused phrase in these political forums and debates. It also seems to be used much more by conservatives, I wonder why that is?

Just shows you even though Obama says no more "old school politics" and we have to change/hope blah blah blah.......what is he offerring? $100 million for your vote? In some countries that's called a bribe......hard to believe, where is he from chicago? The home of the payola...... Why does the press always give him and Ralph Emuanl a free pass? Maine already has one sell out, thank you olympia, for letting this mess get started with your vote. This shows you the problem which runs rampant in DC, its all about the backdoor deals and how it helps them, not their voters.

"Armed with the assurance of Obama’s interest in helping to solve Maine’s Medicare and Medicaid dilemmas, Michaud overcame his several reservations about the House measure and added his vote to the Democratic majority,"

All it took was a bribe and maybe a few promises that we don't know about. Of course the bribe will be inenforceable and the promises are lies.

Zonc

I'm with you concernsme.......turns me off from even reading the post.

Truly a sorry situation that an individual elected to an office in Washington is led by nose to vote for higher taxes on his constituents; cause higher medical expenses; to grow government when there is no money; supports to pay for abortions; and pay for illegal alien medical expense. Yet he reflect that he is in bed with Obama and Snowe! Truly a sad situation and just another step into the coffin of our Country as we know it!

I am pro choice, but I see no reason to let an issue like abortion kill a healthcare bill. It is an elective procedure and should not be covered by insurance, period. Plastic surgery isn't covered and that is an elective. Ok, maybe there should be a life of the mother clause or whatever, but that is almost NEVER the case with abortions.

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE KEEP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS?

Because republicans try to vote to control moral issues that people don't agree with. Starve the beast, by the way is a myth perpetrated by Regan worshippers. There are no serious candidates in the middle.

"VOTERS OF MAINE SOLD OUT AGAIN. IT WAS PEOPLE LIKE HIME THAT VOTED YOUR JOB OVERSEAS." Someday the idiots in this forum will learn something before exercising their paranoia or partisan political sound bits. Corporate CEO's decided to send your jobs overseas with an assist from George Bush who changed Commerce Dept policies to encourage companies to go overseas. Politicans had no vote.

Cuts in Medicare do not affect benefits, care, or treatment.

72% of the country wants this plan; get the facts don't listen to Fox News, NY Post, or WSJ.

These Payoffs? No wonder the Republicans can't accomplish anything except wrecking the economy. The people of Maine benefit from these negotiations. Oh that's right you are republicans you don't give a damn about Maine or the Country.

Maine has been "governed" by democrats for more than three decades and JoanAlbrecht can still put George Bush on the hook for the failed economic state in which we find ourselves.

Same ole' Trustifarian moonbat babbling......

JonAlbrecht you are wrong in so many ways. why dont you get the facts and stop watching cnn, reading the Bangor Daily or anyother liberal biased form of news. I know your gonna give me the crap of they are not biased to liberals blah blah blah blah. Then why does the BDN look so poorly upon guns, why does the BDN try to praise OBAMA AND CO. and down play the GOP. All i have heard from Obama is Yes we can, Change Hope blah blah If you want change, I will dig through my couch, cuz the only change he will providde is the running of this great country into the ground even further.

Last I knew OBAMA NOT BUSH enacted a 800 BILLION dollar stimulus that has done nothing but increase out national debt and our dept to other countries. Im sorry I dont like voting for a guy who REFUSES TO PUT HIS HAD OVER HIS CHEST when required, Refuses to wear an american Flag Lappel pin, and bows to leaders of enemy countries. Why dont you look at the facts and do a little research. Half of the people in this country voted for Obama cuz they didnt want to be deemed rascist. So if it make me rascist to love this country then i am guilty. Every one thinks he has done so much for us. HA what a joke. Baldcrochi is another usless liberal. Tax this Tax that. All liberlas care about is there billfold, they dont care about the people.-

abortion/pro-choice: elective procedure, not everyone gets them, not everyone wants them and far more want universal health care. Separation of church and State right? Not what i see going here.

The state of debt we are in: Bush came into office with a surplus, war in Afghanistan drained some money, but i have no problem there. The war in Iraq which was unfounded, unfunded, uncalled for and our objectives never met. How do you expect to not have a massive debt when to date ~$700,000,000,000 has been spent on this year at the time of this post (as given by http://www.costofwar.com/). If you look at the see tradeoffs, you can see the last 2 years BUsh was in office there was a huge increase in the amount of money thrown at this war. Admittedly, Obama did not do a great job at heading this thing off, but has at least brought that spending down from the previous 2 years.

illegal immigrant care: the bill says they won't be covered, end of story, so drop the Joe Wilson act. I fully agree that they shouldn't be covered. Illegal is illegal, all the jobs that people say they are taking away should be given to those on unemployment/Welfare so they can get back to work. If those people don't want work, deport them for being free loaders, at least the immigrants want to work.

Sucker! Sold out for an empty promise. Stupid.

"Because republicans try to vote to control moral issues that people don't agree with."

Ahhh Health care bill!

"No wonder the Republicans can't accomplish anything except wrecking the economy. The people of Maine benefit from these negotiations. Oh that's right you are republicans you don't give a damn about Maine or the Country. "

Hope you can still afford your meds once Obamagets done with your medicare cuts grandpa.

"Admittedly, Obama did not do a great job at heading this thing off, but has at least brought that spending down from the previous 2 years."

yeah he brought war spending down. Please take a look at the effect that has had on troop casualties and injuries before you start counting your savings. Is that really what it comes down to for you? We save a few bucks at the price of the lives of our troops. What happened to hate the war support the troops?

Iillegal immigrant care: the bill says they won't be covered, end of story, so drop the Joe Wilson act. I fully agree that they shouldn't be covered. Illegal is illegal, all the jobs that people say they are taking away should be given to those on unemployment/Welfare so they can get back to work. If those people don't want work, deport them for being free loaders, at least the immigrants want to work."

This is the biggest scam in the whole deal.

Are you following what is proposed for immigration reform.

They won't be illegal anymore because we are going to give them all amnesty.

No back taxes no penalty no nothing. Just "hey welcome to our country, thank you for jumping to the head of the line and thank you for voting democrat in return for our good deed".

"including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Mr. Obama in the election."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/us/politics/09immig.html

You want to talk about bribery, this is bribery on a national scale.

So once he makes them legal you are OK with paying for them right?

12 million extra little insurance mouths to feed is a pretty hefty hit on our tax dollars bud.

On 11/24/09 at 4:41 PM, maineah47 wrote

Im sorry I dont like voting for a guy who REFUSES TO PUT HIS HAD OVER HIS CHEST when required, Refuses to wear an american Flag Lappel pin, and bows to leaders of enemy countries.

none of these things are based in actual fact, you know. You watch too much Hannity. It is not required to put your hand over your heart during the national anthem. I remember this uproar during the elections. He was not the only one on stage not doing so. If you think not wearing jewelry on your lapel makes you unpatriotic, then you need some real therapy. The politicians who brought it up at the time were also not wearing one.

Which enemy countries are you referring to? China and Japan are not our enemies, last time I checked. That is the protocol for meeting leaders in their own countries. I'm sure you can find pictures of Bush doing the same thing, but NOBODY CARED at the time. We do not own the world and greeting leaders according to their custom ( not everyone shakes hands) is what is expected of grown ups in the real world. I'm sure he also did the kiss kiss thing in France, are they our enemies too? Oh yeah, I forgot about FREEDOM FRIES. People need to get a grip.

Why dosen't this self labeled want to be tell the people of Maine there will be 500 billion in cuts to medicade and madicare??? This guy is a Washington elite that has forgotten who he works for and has set himself at the head of the table. I revciecved a response from him on the health care bill and he openly admits it is not perfect with many flaws...makes 9 " I " statements and NOT 1 time says you, we, us. He also makes the statement this is an historic occasion...I don;t care if it is historic he is the only one tlooking for glory. A medical health plan developed and pushed into law in a few months????? Just who ta heck does Congress think they are. GET IT PERFICT MICHAUD< GET IT PERFECT OR START LOOKING FOR WORK

We have enough slackers in Congress and enough Anti Americans to make me sick. Step Down

Obama is the Spender in Chief instead of the Commander in Chief..LOL...