Comments on: Baucus Blasts ‘Timid’ Colleagues as Debt Talks Die
By hotfishmt on 11-21-11
We know Baucus was on the committee….BUT….who are the other lame branes…...so people can make up their mind…and help them lose their jobs….and pensions. We know they are not Montanan officials….but, maybe people here have some contacts in the chickens state.
By a on 11-21-11
Until the GOP gets real about taxes there is no one to blame but them. Let’s quit pretending, the GOP doesn’t know how to govern.
By Montucky on 11-21-11
Looks like Baucus is declaring himself a hero in a battle that he never fought.
By HP on 11-22-11
My thought is to vote every member of the subpar committee out of office. For me that means max baucus(none of them deserve to be in caps).
By ride4fun on 11-22-11
I think Mr. Baucus is correct—as soon as anyone is elected to the Congress, their first job is to be re-elected. Who would want to give up $175K in salary, the best health care, and a huge pension—not to mention the trips and kick backs from lobbyists. We’ve made a job that was meant to SERVE the country into a fabulous wealth producer for that individual. TERM LIMITS would eliminate the ability to make a career of making money off the American people.
By Montucky on 11-22-11
Term limits, yes, but also it would help if people would vote intelligently and with the interest of the state and nation at heart.
By Roark on 11-22-11
Baucus needs to take resp. for his own complicity in making this fail. These weren’t even real cuts, but projected spending cuts! Our Senator from MT is anti-liberty. He is a big government union supporting politician who wants government control over every aspect of our lives. Vote him out next election.
By Mark W. on 11-22-11
Term limits just give more power to the bureaucracy because politicians are limited out before they develop enough power to make substantive changes. Besides, it’s not like Montanans aren’t going to consistently put someone like Baucus right back in there. The system is busted beyond all recognition - financially, morally, ethically. The people are only beginning to taste the fruits of their just desserts, as all the warnings of our founders begin to manifest.
This ship is going down, hard.
By mooseberryinn on 11-22-11
I have no respect for max whatsoever. He’s just a greasy coward blowing along on obama’s hot air with no backbone. We don’t need him in congress.
By a on 11-23-11
It is the system that is corrupt. Money has corrupted the whole system. I think the politicians have to do what they do to stay in office. You get rid of one, the next one has no choice to play the game with the rules in place.
Let’s vote to change the system. That means voting as far left as you can every election. (Voting as far left as you can is still voting right of center.)The right is kooky and it’s leaders have taken to playing the game with a very heavy hand.
By mooseberryinn on 11-23-11
“the right is kooky”???? um, not doing much reading about obama’s regime eh?
By Eileen Wright on 11-25-11
ride4fun
RE: Who would want to give up $175K in salary, the best health care, and a huge pension—not to mention the trips and kick backs from lobbyists.
Let’s not forget that juicy perk of immunity to laws governing insider trading. It’s no wonder these reprobates have net worths going through the roof.
By mooseberryinn on 11-26-11
Like obama and pelosi for example.
By Eileen Wright on 11-26-11
The super committee republicans offered a proposal that could have given Obama a chance to improve the economy and lock up his reelection. I don’t know why he didn’t go for it other than maybe he is so in tune with the idea of collapsing the economy to restructure the nation as laid out by the Cloward/Piven plan.
By reggie on 11-26-11
I think this is the best possible outcome of the debt problem, given the absurd perimeters the super committe were forced to act under.
Both parties proposed huge cuts to Social Security and Medicare as part of all proposals. But a recent survey http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postbloombergpoll_100911.html Shows that huge majorities of all voters and substantial majorities of GOP voters want these programs left untouched. And taxes on the wealthy raised.
Only elected Republicans, acting as agents of a LOBBYIST, and under oath to him stopped the enactment of what the vast majority wanted done with this issue.
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