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All quiet at the public meeting

by: Jay Stevens

Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 09:21:34 AM MST


Hm. Interesting:

Here are two ways in which the summer of 2010 differs from the summer of 2009: First, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., spent close to three hours here last week at a public meeting where he took questions from all comers on everything from federal spending to veterans' benefits - something he did not do last year. Second, far from the raucous town hall-style meetings of 2009 that nearly derailed the Democrats' efforts to overhaul the American health care system, Baucus, a key author of that bill, encountered a crowd that was cordial, thoughtful and probing in its questions - but certainly not hostile.

Gee, I wonder what the difference is? Could it be that the "raucous" meetings last summer were, in part, staged?

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