Posted on 09/01/2009 10:03:58 AM PDT by IbJensen
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says his longtime friend and colleague Max Baucus (D-Montana) is feeling the heat from the White House and fellow Democrats who want to go it alone on healthcare reform instead of reaching a bipartisan compromise.
Senator Grassley is among three Republicans -- Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) -- and three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee attempting to draft a compromise healthcare bill in the committee chaired by Max Baucus.
Grassley estimates that 45 Senate Democrats believe it is wrong that Baucus is negotiating with the three Republicans on the Finance Committee. Grassley says Baucus comes from the "Mike Mansfield position" that nothing gets done in the Senate that is not bipartisan, and there should be no procedure that keeps any point of view from being expressed.
"If I get an agreement, I have to have other Republicans go along or else I haven't negotiated a very good agreement for my party," he points out. "So consequently, I think Baucus feels a little bit his way and wants to continue to work."
Grassley says although Baucus believes there needs to be a broad, bipartisan consensus because healthcare is a life-and-death issue for every American that deals with one-sixth of the economy, he may not get his way.Senator Grassley
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No compromise! No damned bill!
Move on to negate the bailout bill and give the money to the citizen taxpayers.
Mr. Baucus is a meathead. That’s right, a meathead!
Effing traitors, all of them. Screw the GOP, bunch of worthless corpses.
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you that you would say of Max Baucus . . .
“Mr. Baucus is a meathead. That’s right, a meathead!”
. . . when anybody from Montana knows he is a bonehead, that’s right, a bonehead.
Maine’s treasure Olympia Snowe the traitor rhino of all time, be proud Maine and keep sending the witch back.
LOL!!! OK, he’s a pinhead, I tell yah!
Hey, Grassley, We don’t want no stinking compromise!!
I would like to see a resolution that declares that the listed folks are not acting as representatives of the Republican party and that they are formally considered turncoats and RINOs.
Perhaps there could be even stronger words, but these jerks need to be publicly chastised... BEFORE ANY VOTE.
Grassley, I’ve seen you in action. Take your meds and try to remember where you live!
Don’t tell us what kind of meat.
There are a lot of muslims on the website trying to find out about the Ramadamndamn dinner that Obomba is sponsoring at the White Mosque.
Don’t forget Susan her little friend.
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