Wait! I got it! Max Baucus is a....

[Roland99]

martyr!

He secretly wants to retire and offered up the worst piece of shit legislative gift to the insurance company to make a public option seem like a really, really good idea to everyone else and then he can just retire and slink away to some ranch in Montana.


Right? I mean...it *has* to be that, right? Who else would support such a vile, corporatist piece of shit bill??

[havocmom]

1. Wants to retire REALLY comfy, doin a money dance

I would be real surprised if he retired to spend much time here though.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. I'll go out on a limb here -

just because I'm feeling wild and crazy tonight - and make the prediction that he ends up in DC as a lobbyist for the insurance industry.

I know, I know, it's a long shot, but, hey, I said I was feeling especially goofy tonight...................

[havocmom]

8. LOL Ya think?

And we shan't forget FORMER MT Senator Conrad Show Me the Money Burns or even former gov Marc (then on to RNC head and bush/cheney head, now lobbyist) Get Me Someplace Warm Racicot.

Bunch of weather wimps! Sell anybody out to keep from coming back here and shoveling snow

His first ex-wife is a D.C. attorney. I always wondered if she helped get his second ex-wife off easy for that brawling in the garden center incident. One would suppose it best to have them all compatible.

P.S. you have mail

[Roland99]

13. Oh, that's crazy talk!

[Generic Brad]

2. Tool is the word that came to my mind.

[MichiganVote]

3. Funny, Fucker is the first thing that I thought of...whadda ya' know.

[Arkana]

4. He's a...

cotton-pickin' finger-lickin' chicken plucker!

Whaddya think about that?

[TxRider]

6. lone

[Kittycat]

7. I think he's fishing for a new job at a lobbying firm.

[havocmom]

10. My first thought too

but, to be fair, I did sorta wonder if some Big Insurance henchman sent a newspaper obit from when his nephew was killed in that #(@#)@ war and inquired as to the health of the other nephew still in the military.

Just the way I roll, tryin to look at all the possibilities.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. I'd appreciate it if he retired right now

and let Schweitzer appoint a progressive Democrat to take his spot.

[havocmom]

11. Max ain't been right since that thing with his head

just sayin

Yeah, I would love to have the gov appoint a real DEM to Max's seat for reason of early retirement.

[whirlygigspin]

12. I was thinking pedantic dandy

oh he's just so cleaver, isn't he...