Kaiser to Depart Baucus Operation, Lewis Moving Up

Baucus sans Barrett (0.00 / 0)

Considering this is the office of Max Baucus, when you say "It really is a loss for that office." is that a good thing or a bad thing?  Putting aside individual staffers, compared to whose office it is - that "office" hasn't been inspiring many democrats to lift much of a finger of support these days.  Well, maybe one finger.  This past year clearly illustrated how much Max values the friendship and support of Chuck Grassley.  And Max refused to pull the plug on Grassley for the sake of health care reform we can believe in.  Perhaps Chuck will let him put up a yard sign next election.  So, should folks not expect much of a change with this change?  I'll bet not.  Still, lots of Dems still will say, Max is better than Burns was.  We just never bothered to expect much from Conrad.  

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by: Silas Dogwood @ Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 23:25:27 PM UTC

weasels always desert sinking ships... (0.00 / 0)

there is no honor among weasels...

a weasel working for a weasel is the ultimate dead-end. the legacy of weasels is the tiny weasel pellets they defecate, which wash away with tomorrow's rain. good riddance to weasels and those who work for them.  

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by: problembear @ Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 19:47:24 PM UTC

Really!? Hell of a Team Member? (4.00 / 1)

This guy is about to do the same thing every other staffer that's ever worked for Baucus does. Leave and then work to get Baucus to vote on behalf of big corporations, instead of real people who don't have lobbyists.  In 2002 when there was a vote on whether the US Gov should get a bulk rate on the billions spends to buy prescription drugs for elderly and the poor baucus voted with pharmaceutical companies and in the next weeks his chief of staff, Jeff Forbes, left Baucus's office and took a job for $20 K a month working for the pharmaceutical industry lobbying congress.  The same is true for his former chief of staff David Castignetti and his chief of staff on the banking committee Angela Hoffman.

Matt, they are getting a "hell of a team member" because they are operating in a corrupt system that is enabled by Max Baucus more than any other Senator in history. You've all seen the chart. They are getting yet another person who sees tenure in a congressional office as merely a means to an end, the end being selling out citizens so he can make big bucks.  It happens with such frequency in Bacaus's office that it Max deserves to be at 35% in the polls right now.  

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by: Montana Cowgirl @ Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 17:00:30 PM UTC

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Right on, sister! (0.00 / 0)

As a barely-hanging-on member of the Democratic Party, I have totally had it with Baucus.  I'm not sure, right now, how a Republican would be any worse. I won't lift a hand to help him when he's up for re-election.  In fact, I'll work as hard as I can with others to primary him with someone who's more on the side of people against the corporations.

The revolving door policy involving party hacks that Montana Cowgirl refers to needs to get a whole lot more light shined on it.  No one should be praised for being an effective member of a gang of thieves.

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by: Turner @ Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 17:37:03 PM UTC

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speaking of weasels... (0.00 / 0)

http://wulfgar.typepad.com/a_c...

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by: problembear @ Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 19:51:55 PM UTC

Never heard of this guy. (0.00 / 0)

So I guess I don't really care.

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by: Kyle42 @ Sun Feb 28, 2010 at 01:12:47 AM UTC