{"id":185284,"date":"2011-08-09T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/09\/baucus-max-fing-baucus\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:46:00","slug":"baucus-max-fing-baucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/09\/baucus-max-fing-baucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Baucus?!?!?!?!  Max F%$#ing Baucus?!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Harry Reid has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/08\/reid-picks-murray-kerry-baucus-for-super-committee----heres-the-upshot.php\">appointed his 3 Democrats to the &#8220;Super Committee&#8221;<\/a>, and they are John Kerry, Patty Murray, and Max Baucus.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my rundown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Max Baucus is the least Democratic Democrat in the US Senate.&nbsp; He is more responsible for killing the public option than anyone in the senate.<\/li>\n<li>John Kerry is angling for the Secretary of State appointment after Hillary Clinton resigns, probably after the election, and so is in Obama&#8217;s, and Secretary of Defense Panetta&#8217;s pocket.<\/li>\n<li>Patty Murray is the Senator from Boeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So Reid has appointed 3 people who will blink at the possibility of the automatic cuts to defense, and Republicans desperate to get Democrats to join in their &#8220;Kill Medicare&#8221; suicide pact.<\/p>\n<p>The rule is that a majority vote passes along a non-debatable, non-filibusterable, and non amendable motion to both houses, so if just one Dem flips *cough* Baucus *cough*, we see something that cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, both gutting the safety the safety net, and saving the Republicans from the Paul Ryan budget.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly believe that this is intentional.<\/p>\n<p>It will condemn the Democrats to minority party status for a generation, because it means that we stand for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Harry Reid has appointed his 3 Democrats to the &#8220;Super Committee&#8221;, and they are John Kerry, Patty Murray, and Max Baucus. Here is my rundown: Max Baucus is the least Democratic Democrat in the US Senate.&nbsp; He is more responsible for killing the public option than anyone in the senate. John Kerry is angling &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}