Baucus: Bipartisanship still on track

[Robbien]

Source: NBC

Not sure how he believes this after Chuck Grassley's comments on Monday, but Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has released a statement stressing that his committee is still working on a bipartisan bill.

Baucus:

Bipartisan progress continues. The Finance Committee is on track to reach a bipartisan agreement on comprehensive health care reform that can pass the Senate. Our group will be meeting tomorrow and our staffs continue to meet as well. I am confident we will continue our steady progress toward health care reform that will lower costs and provide quality, affordable coverage to all Americans.

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/19/2037811.aspx

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Baucus doesn't want to just pal around with Dems and turn his back on his best buds in the GOP.

[Pirate Smile]

1. They have until Sept. 15th. They can go through the motions but no one expects anything and they

aren't going to slow things down.

Senate is back in session on Sept. 7th.

[yourout]

2. on track to kill any meaningfull changes in health care.

[DCKit]

3. We don't like your brand of bi-partisanship Max (D)-corp.

"Giving Away the Store" by caving to the demands of the insane, corporate minority isn't what we voted for when we demanded CHANGE.

[Zorra]

4. Sorry, Max, but like the post under the article said, the train done left the station. n/t

[MarjorieG]

5. Bi-partisanship show pony that was necessary. Concern is getting all 60 for public option. Not

happening and reconciliation problematic. I think there were concessions to get insurance companies to play nicer, on the public option as a concession, then both ConsrvaDems and lobbies resisted. May have been politically necessary, however much we believe the mere wisdom of our positions will win.

Wish people understood where we are was inevitable to a degree, bad media and all. So how do we get Ben Nelson? Reconciliation we lose public option, etc, so Dems have to come through but won't.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Then I, as a taxpayer, demand your resignation from the Finance Committee and demand you that you...

join Lieberman as "Irrelevant" Club. Let the big boys do the work.

Hawkeye-X

[saigon68]

17. The Joementum Limpmann "whiney crowd" you mean

The admirers of Bush bunch

[harun]

7. Translation: Bipartisan = For the corporations. No constituent has asked

for this to be bipartisan. It is just a way for them to hide behind the Republicans when we ask WTF is all this corporate welfare crap doing in the bill.

[Mermaid7]

12. I'm afraid you might be right. Signals are not good...even today. N.M.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. Whatever....nt

[Piewhacket]

9. Max is looking a lot like buttwipe these days. No confidence.

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[Mermaid7]

11. The Party of NO Now Wants a Bipartisan Solution???

MaxFuckustoomuch, says it all back on track?

Oh really.

I wonder why?

[scentopine]

13. Max, With all Due Respect, Go to Hell -nt

[santamargarita]

14. Bipartisanship GOP Style:

                     Chuck Grassley

[Frank Booth]

15. Baucus knows the Republicans will never cut a reasonable deal.

Baucus, the insurance industry's inside man, is still trying to run out the clock.

[ProudDad]

16. This asshole baucus has the IQ of a sea anenome

[Vidar]

18. The "track" should be laid right over Baucus' neck.

[damntexdem]

19. Yeah, for Baucus, bipartisanship is still on its sidetrack.

Meanwhile, responsible Dems need to switch to the Democratic main line.

[izquierdista]

20. Hey Max

How about you play Republican for a Day (since it isn't that much of a stretch for you) and 59 Democrats plus you can make it "bi-partisan"?

[tj2001]

21. "Sen. Baucus is my favorite lapdog," says insurance exec