A senator who represents a state of 967,440 people is absolutely screwing up healthcare reform for everyone else. Max Baucus has to go. He is spineless, ineffectual, corrupt and corrupt. Corrupt twice because he's that corrupt.
In a conference call, the three Democratic and three Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee agreed to redouble their efforts to craft a less costly alternative to the trillion-dollar initiatives so far put forward in Congress. They discussed the possibility of also reining in the scope of their package, the sources said.
The senators rejected the idea of imposing a deadline on their negotiations, and they agreed to talk again Sept. 4 -- four days before lawmakers are scheduled to return to Washington from their August break. The consensus, one participant said, was "to take your time to get it right."
In a written statement released after the approximately 90-minute teleconference, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the finance panel, said the group had "a productive conversation" and that they "remain committed to continuing our path toward a bipartisan health-care reform bill."
Every day Baucus fritters and flails around this legislation another 14,000 people lose their health insurance. Don't believe this lie that "getting it right" has anything to do with producing error-free legislation. "Getting it right" is all about compromising with a minority party that will not vote for the legislation anyway.
Baucus isn't up for reelection until 2012, but until then he needs to be stripped of his chairmanship. Give it to John Kerry. Just get Baucus out of there.