I’VE HAD ENOUGH!

One Republican senator has decided enough is enough!

Olympia Snowe of Maine has decided she will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate — not because she fears she will lose, but because she fears she will win.

Snowe, who has traditionally been a moderate Republican, announced she’d rather trade in her 17 year senate career than continue in the venomous, partisan, back-stabbing atmosphere in the halls of congress.  Ouch!

Snowe’s surprise decision has literally rocked the GOP.  Not only did her words point  a finger directly at her Republican “Party of No” colleagues, but her once safe Republican seat is now almost certain to change hands in the more liberal state of Maine.  This is awful news for Republicans, who see their chances of controlling the White House and the Senate getting worse by the day.

Olympia Snowe has spent her senate career frequently crossing party lines and seeking reconciliation. But even her patience has run thin.

“For change to occur, our leaders must understand that there is not only strength in compromise, courage in conciliation, and honor in consensus building—but also a political reward for following these tenets,” Snowe said. “That reward will be real only if the people demonstrate their desire for politicians to come together after the planks in their respective party platforms do not prevail.”

“I certainly don’t have all the answers, and reversing the corrosive trend of winner-take-all politics will take time. But as I enter a new chapter in my life, I see a critical need to engender public support for the political center, for our democracy to flourish and to find solutions that unite rather than divide us.”