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Yup this guy should have retired a l o n g time ago.....he's nuts.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is really happy about retiring from the Senate. So happy, in fact, that he's turning to poetry to explain the deep calling he felt to step down.
"It whispered to me among the elk resting in a meadow east of the Bridger Mountains," Baucus wrote in a Great Falls Tribune op-ed published late Thursday.
"I heard it as thousands of snow geese flew over the Rocky Mountain Front."
"The pull came up from my soul like the ducks that rose in clouds from the winter wheat fields of Teton County at dusk."
Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has long had a penchant for literary or historical references. Just this week, his opening remarks in a hearing on trade policy included an anecdote about Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana, and he began another hearing on the foster care system with a quote by Winston Churchill about the "virtues of human society."
Baucus announced Tuesday that he will step down in 2014, bringing an end to his 35 years in the Senate. His decision elicited cheers from progressive groups, who have long criticized him for his history of voting with corporate interests. Baucus said he made the decision after conversations with his wife and his family.
"I will serve out my term, and then it will be time to go home to Montana," he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/26/max-baucus-retirement_n_3163025.html
AndyA
(16,993 posts)They'd probably have preferred a public option to be in the health care debate, as it would have done a lot to reduce their health care costs!
waddirum
(979 posts)where the staff can keep a close eye on Max and adjust his medication accordingly.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)There once was a Senator from Montana
He had the power to make a difference
But instead he said I don't wanna
I'd rather be bought for the influence
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Anne E. Elk...she now is the CEO of an insurance company that will hire Maxie to be a high-paid lobbyist the moment he walks off the Senate floor. Time to cash in!
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)I completely get the lyrical speech. Most of us from Montana are damn proud of our home state and have a deep appreciation of the beautiful land and the critters that share the land with us.
And we generally feel more free to share what is in our hearts because we grow up with a kind of freedom that is hard to explain to others. In Montana you can be whatever you want and people pretty much leave you alone. There is not a lot of social pressure to conform.
I look at what he said and I think, that's not crazy talk, that's just Montana talk is all.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)the geese flew in the formation of a giant dollar sign in the sky.
madokie
(51,076 posts)fucking us. Fuck him and the elk who whispers in his fucking ear.
KatyMan
(4,190 posts)he's trying to win a Vogon poetry contest