Confusing self-obstructionist dildo Max Baucus, whose Senate Finance Committee will wait another two weeks before talking again while the media continues to institutionalize its curiously prophetic “how comprehensive health care reform died this time” narrative, got on a conference call with the angry hippies recently and told them, “I want a public option, too!” Someone should tell him that he’s in luck, because he has the power to put a public option in his committee’s bill, call a vote, and send that bad boy to the Senate floor! [HuffPo]
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What kind of democracy allows a single shitgobbler to block its freedom?
I think he said he wanted a pubic option.
And, we all do.
Is Max Baucus one of those god damn Blue Dogs, or is he just as sleazy and detestable as them without being an actual card-carrying member?
Dear Ms. Wonkette,
Respectfully, why must we be subjected to this twittering? 0 tweets, please retweet, do you really want to be the laughing stock of twitter? WTF does retweet even mean? And no, I don’t care. I’ll take my answer off the air.
Sincerely,
Death Panel Wagon
He made that public option preference public? That’s the way to co-opt the opposition!
[re=393895]Godot[/re]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Max
[re=393895]Godot[/re]: Blue Dogs are a phenom of the House. They want a power bloc because….um, Dems are never happy to work together or something.
Baucus is just a twatwaffle.
Hope that clarifies things.
Of course he wants the public option — it’s just a good haggling tactic to take your opponent’s position first and then work your way back to what — oh wait, I had the diagram upside-down. Nevermind.
If only Max Baucus was like that picture, he would probably get something done. God that comes my ass.
Hmmm… Are the Democrats trying to juke past the GOP on this whole public option flip-flop extravaganza? Because all they’re doing is confusing the fuck out of the rest of us.
Yeah Max wants a public option but the companies donating to his campaign dont want it. Sorry Max, money talks and bullshit walks.
[re=393910]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]:
God that comes my ass.
Uh, what?
I have the honor of calling Senator Dipshit my own and I’m hear to tell ya, he ain’t no Dem.
He does whatever the NRA tells him to do and if it would mean re-election he’ll switch sides faster than Lieberman can suck off Bush.
Searching for humourous reply, hang on, it’s coming….
Never mind. F*ck Max Baucus and the horse he rode in on.
[re=393911]idiot son of an asshole[/re]: Maybe that’s the plan? Maybe they’ve figured out that Americans are uneducated contrarians who just say they don’t like anything they hear about? Or at least that complainers get the most attention on cable news?
Democrats: “There should be a public option.”
GRAAAAAAAHHHHH NOOOOO PUBLIC OPTION NOOOOOOOBAMACARE!!!
Democrats: “Maybe we won’t have a public option, that’s not the entirety of the plan.”
BAAAAAAAAWWWWW WE NEEEEEDZ A PUBIC OPTION!!!!
Democrats: “The people have spoken, public option it is!”
What a useless sack of shit.
Dear Max,
You have the option to likk my ballsakk. In public.
Signed,
Your Missoula constituent
(won’t be voting for you again)
… but Peggy told us all “it’s toooo hard”. So that’s it.
That’s what she said. Also
And I want a pool boy named Alejandro. What’s yer point, Max?
[re=393916]Tommmcatt[/re]: I probably needed a comma in there, and watch too much True Blood.
Baucus then added “no, really, I do want a public option. It’s just that that mean ole Chuck Grassley won’t let me.”
Baucus needs to go back home and try his hand at dental-floss ranching. Yippeytiyotiya!
In May, the Senate Finance Committee discussed requiring that
insurers reimburse at least 76% of policyholders’ medical costs
under their most affordable plans. Now the committee is
considering setting that rate as low as 65%. LA Times.
How are the currently uninsured, most of whom haven’t got a pot to piss in, going to afford a 35% copay on $30,000 operation?
Just like that, huh? Actions speak louder than words, asshole.
Read what George Carlin wrote about the whole Health Care Debacle this week when he “guest blogged” my latest post!
http://blameblakeart.wordpress.com
Leave a comment – let George know what you think!
I don’t understand all the bitching about the tweet buttons. I find them completely inoffensive
Funny thing is, we don’t really want a public option. We want single-payer, and to fuck over the bloated monstrosity that is our current private, for-profit medical system that is so efficiently extracting vast portions of our GDP. Really give it to them raw, with no lube.
Of course that’s not even on the table. The scheme to solve the problem of 40 million without insurance is to *require* EVERYONE to get insurance. Yep! Turns out all we really need to do is make it illegal to be without insurance. This way, we won’t have 40 million uninsured, we’ll have 40 million criminals who should be fined for thumbing their noses at the law. And what we’re arguing about is whether the government will offer a sanely-priced insurance plan that’ll keep the for-profit companies honest when they have all these people who are suddenly forced to get insurance.
It sounds an awful lot like you are suggesting that our representatives should actually work for us. What’s next, socialized medicine?
[re=393947]mullingitover[/re]: win? yep. win!
In the senate, Montana gets as many votes as California.
Step 1: Abolish the Senate
Step 2: Combine Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming into one state called “Widemont”
Step 3: Make Max Baucus governor of Widemont, ignore at will
Step 4: Pass a viable single-payer health care reform bill in the new and improved House of Representin’
Step 5: Non-stop orgies all day long and free morning after pills, even if you just had der buttsecks
Ah, Legend. He was great in Rocky, too. But what impressed me the most Jim was how naturally Curry acted in Muppet Treasure Island. He treated the Muppets as if they were human and his peers.
Oh, man, now it all makes sense. He’s the Baucus that ordered all the zombies in Bon Temps to prepare a human sacrifice on TrueBlood.
[re=393981]wallythepug[/re]: he does have the IQ of Jason Stackhouse in a gasmask with Andy Dufresne behind him holding up branches as horns.
Where is the father of spin when you need him?
(That’s rhetorical, btw. And he’d probably be hired by the rethugs.)
[re=393890]Fox n Fiends[/re]:
The Republic of Cockblockistan
Lo Lo Bromios, Lo Lo Dendrites, Eleutherios, Enorches, Bacchus.
Our wonkette overlords have bestowed the Tweeters upon us as an ironic inside joke. In an effort to help *us* become the laughingstock of Twitter. Shorts, are you listening?
I think he said he wants the pubic option.
That’s it, I’m putting Baucus down in my VA provided Death Book…with two stars and a smiley face by his name.
It just makes sense, really.
The Republicans have turned into a block of gun waving fourteen year old girls (EEEK Death Panels!!!!) and if the Democrats don’t go full ‘tard in response, there wont be a two party system. The result will be a collapse of the entire carefully maintained facade as it becomes painfully clear that there really are just a pack of whores running the government. Not so much two political parties as a pair of competing brothels.
What’s worse, all those “donations” their corporate Johns have paid out over the years will have largely gone to waste once the American people figure out you can get your Senator to pork a chicken on National TV for a couple of million in cold, brown-paper-bag cash. It could lead to violence…anarchy…Even (shudder) Democracy…Oh Good Lord, we can’t have that!
So I for one can only applaud the insane bullshit oozing from the good Senators suck hole like puss from a syphilitic sore on the lady bits of Justice! God Bless those whores, God bless them every one and if anybody sees Senator Bukake Baucus, let him know from me I beleive he’s a fine American and he’s still got a leeeeetle bit of Insurance company “mayonnaise” on his chin, better wipe it off before Republican Senators see it or they’ll want some too.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled drinking.
Canadians are hoping to get their Doctors back from the US when Obamacare is passed – then we won’t have a nation wide Doctors shortage anymore.
it’s your online crystal ball, America!
NPR, August 11th – Obama Says His Health Plan Won’t ‘Pull The Plug On Grandma’
Vancouver Sun, August 14th – The Fraser Health Authority confirmed Thursday it intends to cut surgeries, seniors’ programs and services for the mentally ill to help deal with a budget shortfall of up to $160 million.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Fraser+Health+Authority+confirms+cutbacks+surgeries+services/1892143/story.html
Flashback! Soylent Green is Grandma…. “The Fraser Health Authority will pay $616,000 in carbon tax this year, rising to $821,000 next year, officials there said.” http://spectator.org/blog/2009/06/11/another-green-policy-that-lead
(taken from SDA)
Canadians are hoping to get their Doctors back from the US when Obamacare is passed – then we won’t have a nation wide Doctors shortage anymore.
it’s your online crystal ball, America!
Vancouver Sun, August 14th – The Fraser Health Authority confirmed Thursday it intends to cut surgeries, seniors’ programs and services for the mentally ill to help deal with a budget shortfall of up to $160 million.
Flashback! Soylent Green is Grandma…. “The Fraser Health Authority will pay $616,000 in carbon tax this year, rising to $821,000 next year, officials there said.”
(taken from SDA)
[re=393969]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: Montana has a budget surplus of over $1 billion…California is in the hole $40 billion. You can keep your California lawmakers right where they are, motherfucker.
I hate to admit it, but as jesusbutter has admitted that Baucus is his representative, I will follow suite and admit my own guilt. For my sins of voting for this man in the past, I can only offer the citizens of Montana and the Unites States as well a profound apology. Over a period of twenty years, my coworkers would go on at length what a piece of crap the man was, but I resisted that idea. I felt that he did take on at length how hard he was working on senior health, social programs etc. It was only after he lock stepped and boot jacked with GW Bush that I saw the light. The last election Mickey Mouse got my vote for the senate. The republican party was in such pathetic disarray, that they offed no alternative choice at all. I would have voted for a qualified and decent (oxymoron?) republican if only presented.
Baucus is a money grubber, plain and simple. He will take money from anyone, anywhere, anytime. He took money from Jack Abramoff, same as Conrad Burns, and returned it only after it was brought to light. Now like in a Godfather movie, Vito is whispering in his ear, “Max my friend, its time to do what we have been paying you for. Remember we told you we would ask you a favor sometime.” Vito could be the insurance industry or any number of industries Max took money from. It doesn’t matter who he took it from, the simple truth is that he sold out his principals, his honor as a man, father,husband, and worse, his office itself. Max Baucus had earned a vaulted position in Montana’s shameful history of industrial giants and robber barons.
For the life of me, I can’t wrap my head around this. Given the opportunity of making this world a better place, earn a damn good living, the respect of your fellow man, why choose to drag yourself into this swamp of deceit? Most of us care what others think about us, but if you surround yourself with rich, corrupt, and like minded individuals, you tend to think you are golden.
Why should Max feel any remorse? So he won’t get reelected. Big Deal! He has a golden parachute that would make any industrial CEO green with envy. Max has his Quid Pro Quo and you, my fellow citizen, has payed for every dime of it.
Senator Ted Kennedy is being eulogized today. While the wingnuts may hate his guts, most persons of consequence are showering praise and adoration on his life and history. Ted Kennedy is going to recognized in American history as a true great American.
Even the poorest and most wretched comes into the world with a name. In all truth we don’t remember anyone who leaves this world by the name given to them at birth. We remember them by the name they take to the grave with them.
Rest assured, no such praise or accolades will be waiting for Senator Max Baucus when he makes that final bank deposit.
Senator Baucus, if this comment somehow makes it to your monitor, consider that thousand upon thousands of Americans are suffering and dying while you sit and obstruficate.
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