Why Liberals Hate Max Baucus »
Posted By Progressive 2 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionThe Senate Finance chair has health-care reform in his hands, and he's bargaining it away. Michelle Goldberg on how his addiction to industry cash and GOP sympathies have doomed the bill.
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ameliog2 months, 1 week ago
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It's not just liberals. Max Baucus also hates Max Baucus.
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miklkit2 months, 1 week ago
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It's true. The time for compromise is long gone. The republicons all march to the same drummer, all in lockstep. Ignore them and just do it! Let them filibuster. It won't take long before the emptiness of their position becomes widespread.
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Progressive2 months, 1 week ago
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Sen. Ben Nelson, who together with Baucus are the Laverne and Shirley of turncoat Democrats, complained that the public option "would win the game." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell admitted that "private insurance will not be able to compete with a government option." This is a little like complaining that Keanu Reeves was robbed of an Oscar just because he can't act.
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Progressive2 months, 1 week ago
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At the end of July, word leaked out that the Senate Finance Committee, in addition to likely spiking the public option, had also decided to ditch the employer mandate. It was hard to be certain, because even Democrats on the committee don't know what's going on in the Group of Six selected by Baucus to craft the bill. Things got so bad that some Democrats on the committee — including John Kerry, Chuck Schumer and Robert Menendez — were reduced to holding what amounts to shadow hearings on health care several times a week, while Baucus and his crew conducted their meetings in relative secrecy. The chairman did not even bother to keep his fellow Democrats informed of the bill's developments, let alone what he has promised Republicans in return for their support of the bill. "The Group of Six has hijacked the process," says an aide to one of the left-out senators.
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