The Smoke Clears: Conrad Is the Anti-PO Leader In The Senate

[kpete]

The Smoke Clears: Conrad Is the Anti-PO Leader In The Senate
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 03:01:12 PM EST

While Max Baucus continues to look like a fool, the smoke has certainly cleared on Kent Conrad - he is a vehement opponent of a public option and always has been. All his protestations to the contrary, in the words of Don Corleone, it was always Conrad.

The interesting news, after the Schumer Amendment failed by 10-13, is that 10 (11 if one is to believe Baucus' rationalizations) of the 13 Democrats on the most conservative committee in all of the Congress, the Senate Finance Committee, support some form of a public option.

What's left of interest in the Finance Committee? To me a declaration when the final bull is voted on that in fact BaucusCare is DOA. Indeed, I would love for Rockefeller to vote No on it and intone, in open mockery of Baucus, that he is voting no on the bill because it does not have 60 votes.

Not a winning day today, but, all in all, not a terrible day either.

Speaking for me only
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/29/16112/4546

[pinto]

1. Yeah, I see the point. I don't think the Baucus bill, haowever it gets out of his committee,

will derail a public option at this point.

[karynnj]

2. Exactly - The good guys there just need to get a bill out

that is as good as they can get - then fix it on the floor or in reconciliation.