Serious Question

Do you think Max Baucus got pepped by Obama’s pep-talk?

13 Comments

robertdsc on August 4, 2009 at 3:23 pm

No.

marvin38 on August 4, 2009 at 7:00 pm

“It was really a wonderful meeting, led by a terrific man, our president, Barack Obama,” Baucus said. “One of the senators was saying to me, as we walked out, ‘You know, it’s just so wonderful to hear him speak.’ You know, it’s like a symphony. It’s like just a great — it’s just — he is so good. He just has it together.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/obama-told-dem-senators-t_n_251287.html
- dada on August 4, 2009 at 7:28 pm
  
  methinks mr. stein is indulging in a bit of cherry picking, eh.
  
  sounds to me like the clock’s ticking, and that the stated goal of bipartisanship has it’s limits.
  
  via Reuters
  
  President Barack Obama rallied fellow Democrats on Tuesday for healthcare reform, and agreed they should give Republicans only until mid-September to get behind the plan.
  
  “Everyone recognizes that we are going to do, if there’s any way possible, a bipartisan bill,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said after Democratic senators attended a White House meeting.
  
  “We’re going to do that … in spite of the loud shrill voices (against it),” he said. Reid said a bill would be approved this year.
  …
  
  Senate health subcommittee chairman Jay Rockefeller told reporters on Capitol Hill the president supported giving the Finance Committee leaders a September 15 deadline to negotiate a plan with minority Republicans.
  …
  
  Finance chairman Max Baucus added that if no agreement was made by mid-September, “we’ll just have to reassess where we are and see what we’re up to. There are all kinds of options.”
  
  He said later Obama discussed limits on their push for Republican backing. The president said he “hopes it doesn’t happen, but it may come to a point where we have to go in a different direction,”…
  
  the RATs are never going to agree to anything…reconciliation, here we come.
  
  baucus is nothing more than a shill for his corporate masters.
  - robertdsc on August 4, 2009 at 7:40 pm
    
    And that they are committed to working with Republicans to do it. The president believes that that is important.”
    
    Goddamned motherfucking fail. FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!

billjpa on August 4, 2009 at 3:39 pm

max is just one reason why the chances for passage of a meaaningful health reform bill will not pass this year.
I wonder just what the trigger will be for a massive public response to the corporate attak on the country. First i thought that the bank insanity would do it. then, the credit card insanity. next the forclosure abortion. now health care. what the hell will it take?
birthers, disrupters, blatant liars; what the hell is it going to take?
max? just one more piece of pond scum!

Brendan Skwire on August 4, 2009 at 3:56 pm

i honestly don’t give a shit about max baucus and whether he’s pepped up or not.

i want my single-payer health care, like i’ve been promised these past 20 fuckin’ years.

corvus on August 4, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Allow me to suggest again that the Constitution be amended to make senators’ votes proportional to the size of their constituencies. Then we wouldn’t have some corrupt old whore from a state of less than a million people standing in the way of nearly three-quarters of the American people.
- nonynony on August 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm
  
  Allow me to suggest that if we’re going to be amending the Constitution anyway, let’s abolish the Senate altogether. Or if that’s unpalatable, reduce its power to something resembling the House of Lords. (And while we’re at it, throw out the Electoral College as well).
  
  The Senate is a backwards and undemocratic chamber that was designed to be backwards and undemocratic and has succeeded in its design goals far beyond the dreams of its creators. But the days of needing to have state representation rather than citizen representation are long passed and the need for the Senate as a deliberative body have gone with them. Get rid of it – it’s an anachronism that we just don’t need anymore.
  - corvus on August 4, 2009 at 5:08 pm
    
    Heh. I’ve suggested as much before, and much more than that, but sometimes I propose half- or quarter-measures out of a misguided sense of realism.
ishmael on August 4, 2009 at 4:14 pm

I had to join the army to get mine.