NEWSFLASH! Republicans Won’t Support Baucus Bill
16 September 2009 9:30 am by Taylor Marsh
–link to Baucus bill in update below-
I’m stunned.
Speechless even.
Gang of Six Republicans say no to Baucus bill — for now:
CNN has learned that – barring some unforeseen change — Democratic Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus will unveil a health care proposal Wednesday without the support of the three Republican senators — Charles Grassley, Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe — he’s been negotiating with for months.
Senate Republican sources close to Grassley and Enzi — and in the case of Olympia Snowe, the senator herself — tell CNN they still have concerns that have not been addressed that range from taxpayer funding of abortion, to illegal immigration, to affordability of the health coverage this new law would require.
Now look up the definition of rube. It applies to the every Democrat in Congress, but also Pres. Obama, for thinking there would ever be Republicans on board.
Democrats have been played. Badly. Wasting an enormous amount of time, political clout and the people’s patience, only to come up with a bad bill from Sen. Baucus.
Somebody needs to rescue the situation immediately or Democrats are going to pay for this dearly. Frankly, they should. There really is no excuse for kowtowing and bending over backwards to get a bipartisan solution, only to wind up with a bill we’d be better of without, as far as I’m concerned; at least from what we know now, though I’m always ever hopeful to have misjudged these rubes.
It gives me no pleasure to say I (and many others) told you so.
UPDATE II: Here’s the full pdf of the Baucus bill.
UPDATE: Read this piece by Mike Lux: The Bad News? The Senate Finance Bill is Horrendous. The Good News?
