Max fucking Baucus? Really Harry? That's the best you could come up with...

[truebrit71]

...the guy that almost single-handedly FUCKED US over health care reform?

If Harry Reid really picked Baucus, Murray and Kerry, I am fucking down with this sorry-ass party...


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS SHIT???!!!!????:grr:

[Harmony Blue]

The nightmare continues

and it seems they are not done yet lol.

[Harmony Blue]

1. The nightmare continues

and it seems they are not done yet lol.

[dennis4868]

2. wow!

We are blaming a dem in congress and not the prez for the spineless dems in congress...

[SugarShack]

3. He voted against the Jobs Bill along with Ben Nelson and Mark Warner...gads!!!!!!!

[Mojorabbit]

25. email him here

http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

[valerief]

4. Did you expect anything less? I'm surprised it isn't Baucus, Lieberman, and Ben Nelson. nt

[SugarShack]

5. It ain't about jobs!

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. What did Baucus do?

I kinda dropped out of ALL politics after the election and never paid any attention to what was going on in D.C. What did he do?

[Bluebear]

9. For one, he had single payer Protesters arrested --- and laughed at them.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. Asshole.

That's a very Republican thing to do! Remember when Sensenbrenner turned off the microphone during a committee hearing when a Dem (can't remember who it was) called for a Point of Order and Sensenbrenner refused to listen, so he turned off the microphone? Then, remember when the Dems were locked out of the committee meeting room by the Rethugs and the police were called? I can't believe Baucus did that! That's REPUBLICAN/THUG mentality!

[Bluebear]

17. I remember it very well inco....what a state of affairs

[kenfrequed]

27. Oh yeah...

And those protestors were health care providers too. Doctors and nurses.

[CarmanK]

7. HARRY REID is feeble minded and needs to GO< GO

Baucus will serve up our SS and Medicare on a silver platter. How could he do this to us??

[w4rma]

11. Yup. I'm done with Reid as Senate Majority Leader. He needs to go too. (nt)

[RKP5637]

8. I'm getting fatigued with the battle. Yet one more WTF. n/t

[NICO9000]

10. Reid has been working against us for a long time now

Never in my life have a seen a majority leader be as wimpy as this guy is. Like his boss, he's always ready to cave in once the repigs start leaning on him a bit. It's ironic that he was a boxer in his early life, 'cos the guy never seems to land a punch. Plus, he's a Mormon, so fuck him and his bogus religion.

[spanone]

12. you can bet the rethugs are gonna appoint three shit eating dem hating assholes

[phleshdef]

13. Not a fan of Baucus but he is the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

So it should be no surprise that the person with that position would be appointed to a commission of this nature.

[truebrit71]

20. You understand why he is a terrible choice though, right?

..or do you think Harry Reid is correct..?

[phleshdef]

21. I believe having the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee as a pick is proper.

So in that respect, I do believe Reid is correct. Allowing Baucus to ever obtain the high standing he has is where the mistakes actually happened.

[kenfrequed]

26. Or hey...

Reid could have given a strategic signal that we weren't going to compromise and, as a leader, actually chosen someone that would friggin stand up to the Republicans. Seniority be damned. There are no friggin rules for organizing a gang or whatever.

Please spare me this implication of propriety when this is a formalized informality.

[phleshdef]

28. I'll spare you nothing. I see the reasoning behind it.

And I stand by that.

[kenfrequed]

31. so "we agree to disagree"?

I'm sorry but that is what my republican friends tell me when they have already lost the argument but don't actually want to concede that they are wrong.

Policy and legislation are all that matters with this. Anything else is sunday morning talk show bullshit. Tactically this was stupid. Baucus will fold like a goddamned accordian and we will end up with a supercongress budget that concedes ever more to the republicans. There is no reason this has to happen. There are no rules requiring that we put the chair of the finance committee on this gang when we know damned well he is only going to cut our balls off.

Hide behind some pretense of nonexistent gentlemans rules if you want, but there are no rules for assigning congressmen to this "gang" that was agreed upon. You are merely making a bad situation much, much worse.

[phleshdef]

dupe

[phleshdef]

29. dupe

[kentuck]

15. Sisyphean...

two steps forward, three steps back.

[bigwillq]

16. We really have such outstanding DEM leadership.

:rofl:

LOL

[awoke_in_2003]

18. Like someone said in another thread...

we will have a bunch of kabuki theater, but the outcome is already planned.

[woo me with science]

30. Yes, it is a well-oiled scam. nt

[backscatter712]

19. Ah yes... Here, have some NASCAR Baucus...

[_ed_]

22. We've been had

This is just another act in the big play that's been going on for weeks. They only need a bare majority to pass anything in this super congress, so Baucus is going to be the ringer and do whatever the Republicans want. The Dems will wail and moan about how mean the Rs are and how they can't do anything, and the middle class and poor get fucked again.

At some point we need to realize that the corporate Dems like Reid, Baucus, and Obama are in on it.

[Marrah_G]

23. nothing surprises me anymore

[Enthusiast]

24. Me too