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Baucus to Gang of Six: Time to Fish or Cut Bait
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Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says that if the three Republicans and two Democrats he's been working with to negotiate a health care reform want to see changes in his proposal, they better speak up by 10 a.m. tomorrow.
"The rubber is starting to meet the road here. We're gonna have to start fishing or cut the bait pretty soon and I made that very, very clear to the group."
Lot of metaphors in there. But also a hard deadline. We'll see if, after weeks of trashing health care reform to constituents, Republicans Mike Enzi and Chuck Grassley are ready to start playing nice.
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Walter Mitty
September 8, 2009 7:16 PM
I bet they'll have a whole bunch of new ideas - anything to further delay things.
They're first idea will be "Hey, lets start all of this over - this time we'll really, truly, honestly, be constructive"
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Stroszek
September 8, 2009 7:43 PM
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33420
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Walter Mitty
September 8, 2009 7:55 PM
It sounds like Sen. Baucus has taken some interview pointers from Crash Davis.
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Moose49
September 8, 2009 8:16 PM
Mixed metaphors are the sign of an addled, confused, irrational mind.
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FreeRider
September 8, 2009 8:21 PM
They'll have lots of input at 9:30 AM tomorrow but say they need another month to work things out. Then Baucus will give say "OK. But this is the last time!"
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Walter Mitty
September 8, 2009 9:50 PM in reply to FreeRider
Yup. So the Rep. giving the rebuttal can say "Senators just today indicated they were willing to keep working at a bi-partisan solution and the Democrats walked away" or "...and President Obama didn't want none of it".
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FreeRider
September 8, 2009 10:24 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
Who the fuck cares what the Republicans say? Do you really think their reubuttal will move the needed?
They've made it clear that they are not negotiating in good faith so they are irrelevant. Everybody knows that, except Baucus.
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