Max Baucus wants to force health care reform to fail in his committee so that two or three people with gold rolexes can profit while the rest of us suffer. So I thought to myself, what can folks do about it? How can you go over Max's head to make progress? Sit and wait all recess for something to magically happen? Not going to. There is only one answer, rally people and start now to get rid of him.
And there is no time like the present, this recess is a perfect time. We need to identify a challenger to primary against Baucus and start to run against him now. If we start now (and I mean today), he can have a huge war chest and build the needed name recognition needed to win the primary.
Up until now, ole Max has just had to run his campaign to win his seat against folks in Montana. What a shock it will be when everyone he screwed by holding up health care reform in his committee descends on him like locusts. Trying to fight everyone in the US is a losing battle, and that is exactly why we should take it on. It is a sure thing.
Actually, this must be what Max Baucus wants. He does not really want a August Recess where he takes a break, he wants to start to worry about his re-election. He does not want to have an easy re-election, he wants to suffer and suffer so he can get a small glimpse of the pain of those that suffer, but cannot get health care. He wants to lose his primary, lose his full coverage no questions asked Congressional Health Care, and then have to try and get health care like the rest of us. After he is out of Congress, I would pay money to see his face the first time he is told that something he needs "to live" is not allowed on his plan that he is paying through the nose for.