Legal Commentary

Baucus: Fool Or Knave?

By Big Tent Democrat

And that's Ezra, feeling the prevailing breeze and trying to remain relevant:

[Grassley]has made Baucus look like a weak, ineffectual fool. . . . He let Baucus end the process with a compromised bill and not a single vote of confidence from his Republican colleagues. He made Baucus look like a knave.

Later Ezra writes "Baucus [was left] with little evident power at this juncture. . . . That means the White House and the Senate leadership are going to play the primary role in both offering concessions and guaranteeing their preservation in the process. The bill remains in Max Baucus's committee, but at this point, it's largely out of his hands."

Ezra is a bit of a mouthpiece for the White House these days so this is a harbinger that Baucus has been thrown under the bus by the White House. Yesterday was a big day.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).