As noted earlier here, Olympia Snowe has decided to vote for the Baucus bill in the Senate Finance Committee. In her statement announcing this decision, she said she would like the legislative language and the CBO score to be available before a vote on the motion to proceed on the bill. If this was her price, it strikes me as a bit low. Given how badly the Democrats want a patina of bipartisanship, she probably could have driven a better bargain. I also think making the bill available is a concession the Democrats might have had to grant anyway in the interests of transparency.

As I argued this morning, this probably locks her in to voting for the final package, as she would make no new friends by switching at this point. Furthermore, I think that she loses leverage for any additional concessions she might want, as the Dems will now look elsewhere among both conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans (read: Susan Collins) to boost their numbers.