RINOs at work... or, how Republicans helped pass a travesty of a health bill

So, now Olympia Snowe, otherwise known as "Republican in Name Only" since she is willing to give away literally anything in order to achieve "consensus", even when principle and common sense should lead her away... so now, this Democrat-in-Republican-clothing is going to vote for the Baucus Healthcare Bill.

Let's just hit a few quick points as to why that's bad:

1) the bill purports to cost $800 billion over 10 years ... but counts five years BEFORE the bill's requirements go into play. In other words, the $800 billion is the estimated cost for 5 actual years of its effect. Think of it this way: an accurate estimate of a 10-year cost, then, is actually 1.6 TRILLION.
2) Government estimates of cost are always off by literally hundreds (and often thousands) of percents. If we assume this bill will cost a scant twice the estimate, that's $3.2 TRILLION. Think about it.

3) the bill sets the IRS and the new bureacracy against the American people -- it literally says "do as we say, even if you can't afford it, or go to jail." So, if you have to choose between paying the government mandate or putting food on the table -- you can either pay the government mandate or go to jail. Democrats in action.

No Republican of any sort should vote for something as terrible, as tragic, and as pathetic as this bill is. heck, no Democrat should either -- and kudos to Joseph Leiberman for being the LAST PRINCIPLED DEMOCRAT in Washington.

In the meantime, the GOP needs to disavow Ms. Snowe and let her go where she already votes -- since she clearly has no principles that are Republican (or republic-an) in nature.