Posted on 08/08/2009 7:54:56 AM PDT by surfing_the_red_wave
An upcoming speech on health care was touted last week by Sen. Maria Cantwell's press office.
It was then delayed by a few hours.
Then, the speech was deep-sixed as Cantwell flew to Spokane for the weekend.
No mention of the speech has come this week, as the Senate wrapped up its work before the August recess.
Has Washington's junior senator adopted a long-ago motto of Virginia Sen. Harry Byrd: Silence is golden?
Cantwell is a member of the Senate Finance Committee. A bipartisan group of six committee members - not including Cantwell - is trying to hammer out a health care compromise. President Obama met with the group earlier this week.
Liberal senators are notably absent from the negotiating team, set up by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus. Work backstage in Washington, D.C., is that the group may jettison the "public option" from health care reform.
All of which leaves Cantwell on the hot seat as she returns to a state chilling out from its recent heat wave.
Cantwell was invited onto the tax-writing Finance Committee by Baucus, D-Montana, after the 2006 election. She is the first Washington senator to serve on the panel in more than half a century. She serves on two other front-rank committees, a three-fer unusual for the Senate.
At the same time, unions and Democratic groups back in this Washington are pressing for a public health care plan to compete with insurance companies.
Cantwell released her "public schedule" late Friday for her first week back in the state.
It contains an inspection of Hanford with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The senator is helping dedicate a cargo terminal at the Port of Vancouver. She is co-hosting a forum on the Colville National Forest with Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rogers, R-Wash., who recently gave comfort to the Birther movement.
As well, Cantwell will sit down in Longview to hear a report from the Mount St. Helens Advisory Committee. The senator will also attend a barbecue with local citizens in Newport.
When will the senator's silence on health care be broken?
Excerpt: An upcoming speech on health care was touted last week by Sen. Maria Cantwell's press office.
It was then delayed by a few hours.
Then, the speech was deep-sixed as Cantwell flew to Spokane for the weekend.
Additionally, she's a boring politician who has an IQ slightly above room temperature.
Sniveling Cowards!!!
It’s not former Senator Harry Byrd’s example she’s following, it is current US Representative Brian Baird’s (D. Vancouver) example that is leading Cantwell...
No doubt our local AP outlet will be running a front page article soon, touting the 10,000 people that Cantwell “spoke to” while reading them the same talking points on Health Care that Baird is using....
Washington has the distinction of having the two dumbest senators in the chamber. Maria Cantwell stole her seat from Slade Gorton. Patty Murray (the idiot mom in tennis shoes) has been around since the 1990’s and has done nothing noteworthy except follow orders from the Democratic leadership. Washington deserves far better than these two nitwits.
Could not have said it better myself. These two should be bagging groceries at the local grocery store. Unbelievable.
Consider on the other side you’ll find the Main Maine twins: Collins and Snowe!
Rep. Brian Baird, WA 3rd Cong. Dist. called those attending the town hall meetings “brown shirts.” Cantwell is also a scoundrel who votes the party line every single time.
IbJensen:
“Additionally, she’s a boring politician who has an IQ slightly above room temperature.”
Agreed!
10,000 people that Cantwell spoke too? They’ll have to remove chairs before the press gets there. Otherwise, it might give them away!
Last sentence of article:
“When will the senator’s silence on health care be broken?”
You misspelled her name: “Maria Cant-vote-well”
I’ve heard a number of “can’t” variations placed on her name (lol).
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