Train wreck? Speaking of which. Wonder if Max Baucus (D-MT) will side with Cruz and other pubbies in stopping this atrocity?
I doubt it, after all...he's a RAT. They'll say one thing, and then vote as they're told.
Baucus?
He’s already announced that he’s “retiring”, won’t run for re-election and has spent most of the time since that announcement posing as The Great Bringer of Federal Gifts while his office/website doesn’t act like they particularly care if anybody is even left alive in Montana. (Unless, I suppose, they’re Big Contributors and/or Known Reliable Votes.)
Between that attitude, the fact that absolutely no big name ‘rats have so much as raised the possibility that they’re even considering running in his place and the fact that Baucus has still got “his” 20Mill or so in campaign funds, I would pose the following:
1) He’s actually retiring, is leaving his successor up to the state party types and is just setting himself up for either the fattest K Street gig of all time or a prime ambassador job so he can be put on the same pedestal by the ‘rats as Mike Mansfield. In any case, he will do just exactly as he’s told.
2) This “retirement” is as phoney as Baucus, all he’s doing is posing as above the fray so he can ignore all us nasty rednecks while he keeps on running for another term in a stealth mode. (The Formal Announcement will probably come just before the deadline to file so opponents get blindsided...if he isn’t “allowed” to file even later.) Oh, yeah...In any case, he will do just exactly as he’s told.
Which to choose....
Well, I’m picking Door Number 2, just ‘cause that’s the only tactic they’ve not used lately and it just fits so well.
As far as the vote....In any case, he will do just exactly as he’s told.