What Baucus Taught Us
Let us all now thank Senator Max Baucus.
He has taught us progressives a very important lesson: how NOT to get anything done in Congress.
Thanks to Max Baucus, for example, we now know that the more time you spend trying to make a deal with Republicans…
And the more energy you expend working on bipartisan solutions…
The less you’re ever going to accomplish.
Thanks to Max Baucus, we now know that trusting someone like Chuck Grassley, or Mike Enzi, or even Olympia Snowe…
Is as bad as trusting Mitch McConnell or John Boehner.
They’ll only stab you in the back.
Thanks to Max Baucus, we now know that the more money you take from insurance companies, the less likely you are to serve the American people – and the more likely you are to serve the special interests.
And, thanks to Max Baucus, we now know what a health care reform bill written by and for the insurance companies looks like – so we can throw it away and focus on getting a bill written for the people, with a strong public plan option.
You see, in the end, we learned a lot from the Gang of Six.
Thank you, Senator Baucus.
That’s my parting shot for today.
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Developing trust in our representatives comes slow and hard. But when we see that money rules and that the decision makers are so entrenched in, or shackled by, their contributors, it can be a blow to our cause.
Affordable healthcare is a critical component, especially the public option, for struggling veterans. Most of the vets and make their way to a fine government run option of the VA, but what about their wives and children? Men and women who have honorable served this country not only struggle with the ravages of war, but the inability of our Congressional leaders to ensure that their families have healthcare.
My comment here is not to join Bill in blasting Max or anyone else. It is to dovetail off of this comment and beg, and I mean BEG, that Congress pass a bill that provides equality in care for the families of veterans, just as they do for veterans. They deserve it. They went. How many decision makers have a clue as to what that was like?
So I hear you Bill, and at the same time I’m going to keep the faith that Max and others will take notice and, if for no other reason than their love, respect and appreciation for Veterans, make a public option available to our Heroes’ families. Do they deserve any less?
Lance, Director
American Heroes Return
people its just the media covering their ass :
Media Corporation Insurance & Pharmaceutical Companies
Disney/ABC Proctor & Gamble
GE/NBC Chubb, Novartis, Proctor & Gamble, Merck
Time Warner AIG, Health Cap, Paratek Pharmaceuticals
Fox/News Corp GlaxoSmithKline, Genentech, Hybritech
New York Times Co. First Health Group, Eli Lilly
Tribune Co. Abbott Labs, Middelbrook Pharmaceuticals
Gannett/USA Today Chubb
I agree with what Bill says. And to be honest, I don’t think Baucus really understands what he is in the Senate for…he forgot that he was elected, unfortunately, by Montanans…
And he may have been supported by the majority of Americans-up until now.
Right at this moment, they are all on C-Span discussing the Finance Committee’s “bill” of nothing…and speaking of how we the citizens won’t be able to understand anything but “VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE.”
Or, “PLAIN LANGUAGE”. What do they think we are, idiots? In that case, why are they in Congress?
This is insulting to me…Max Baucus is insulting to the United States Senate AND to all the citizens of the United States.
Shame on them all…
Thank you Bill…
Excellent post.
Baucus is a total horses ass.