Max Baucus

The Independent Record’s Fascinating Editorial on Max Baucus

January 3, 2010

If anyone has spent any time on this site, they know that I am hardly a fan of Senator Baucus. That being said, the recent juvenile attacks that he was drunk on the floor of the Senate demonstrate the depths to which Republicans will sink to smear any Democrat, even one as conservative as the [...]

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Juxtaposition in the News: The Ethical Senator and the Mayor

December 5, 2009

There’ve been a couple of interesting stories in the paper the past few days about ethical decision making by political leaders. Senator Max Baucus: A spokesman for Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, said early Saturday that the senator nominated his girlfriend, a lawyer who worked for him at the time, for a United States [...]

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Fun with the Public Option

October 22, 2009

Fresh news that the public option may still be alive and kicking presents two opportunities to marvel at the craven nature of some Democrats in the Senate. We’ll start with Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu: Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), for one, dismissed recent polls that show public support for the idea, telling NPR, "I think if [...]

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It’s Tester Time. Where is Senator Tester on Health Care Reform?

September 8, 2009

Far better sources have already written about the incredibly weak and cynical proposal that Senator Baucus is floating on healthcare (on the slowest news day imaginable), and my position about the Senator has been clear for quite some time. [quote] What I haven’t written about, though, is Senator Tester, largely because he has been either [...]

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Obama’s Education Speech and the Fringe: Time To Stop Being So Damn Congenial

September 7, 2009

Now that the right wing has worked itself up into another frenzy about yet another non-issue, this time the President of the United States encouraging schoolchildren to try harder in school and to work to improve their communities, one has to wonder why people like Senator Baucus feel the need to negotiate with people who [...]

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By All Means, Keep “Negotiating” with the Republicans, Senator Baucus

August 26, 2009

They’re certainly working in good faith with you: Mike Enzi, one of three Republicans ostensibly negotiating health care reform as part of the Senate’s "Gang of Six," told a Wyoming town hall crowd that he had no plans to compromise with Democrats and was merely trying to extract concessions. "It’s not where I get them [...]

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Another Craven Day for Senator Baucus

August 13, 2009

I happened to catch an excellent interview of Senator Baucus by a Montana Public Radio reporter as I was driving through another late afternoon hailstorm. Once again, Senator Baucus demonstrated the kind of courage that has come to characterize his efforts to “lead” health care reform: none at all. In the interview, Baucus echoed comments [...]

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Senator Baucus, You Are The Problem

August 8, 2009

As I am sure many of you did, I received an e-mail this evening from Senator Baucus about health care reform.  In  a 1200 word e-mail, Senator Baucus used the phrase “health care reform” sixteen times, without ever giving any specific information about what his proposal would do to reform health care, and that’s exactly [...]

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