Alone! No one joined Baucus to help push his "compromise!"
Posted on 09/16/2009 7:05:07 PM PDT by Starman417
Look at all those empty seats as Sen. Max Baucus stands alone in Senate Committee Room!
Alone! No one joined Baucus to help push his "compromise!"
Curt has the full story on the much vaunted "compromise" health bill introduced today by Sen. Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. This was the bill Dems hoped would attract some GOP support and they couldn't even get Maine's Olympia Snowe to support it. Worse yet, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) plans to vote against it for raising taxes on middle class coal miners in his state. This bill has so little support that Baucus couldn't even get the usual Dem posse to line up behind him for a photo op.
New Poll Shows Record Opposition to Dem's Health Plan
I suppose Sen. Rockefeller and other Democrats have been reading the latest Rasmussen poll which shows opposition to Democrat's plans is at an all time high...
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
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Baucus needs to tell his hairdresser to ease off on the blonde highlighter, fer pete’s sake. The man looks like a Baltimore Block stripper. Hiding the gray is one thing, but he looks phonier than Traficante.
lol so why did the Senator waste his time pushing his proposal?
The nondescript group of 75,000 of unknown origin showing up at the Capitol this weekend had nothing to do with Baucus standing alone in support of the bill. /sarc
I kept saying it would be the Democrats that are the causal factor in 0bama’s implosion . . . they’re right on time and right on target.
BTTT
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Did he make finger shadows??
Zero is going to try and be on TV more than the NFL Sunday.
Good thing for ESPN Game day.
Me and my shadow ...
BTTT!
Will someone please tell the crickets to tone it down I can’t hear him. ha ha ha!
Hahahahah! Kind of empty up there, it’s something
they had better get used to.
Silly FloppingAces entry. When a Chairman presents like this, no one is ever sitting in their seats. Sometimes, they will appear with him in front of the display, but not always.
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