With the Senate Finance Committee slated to vote on whether to add a public option to Chairman Max Baucus's (D-MT) health reform bill this week, two progressive groups are hitting Baucus with this ad in his home state. In it, a man driven into debt by a congenital heart disease suggests Montanans can't trust Baucus because he's taken millions of dollars in donations from the health care and insurance industries:
Baucus has become the focal point of liberal frustrations with the health reform sausage-making process: he led the bipartisan negotiations that stalled health reform through August (while failing to garner any GOP support), and the package he's put forward does not include a public option. It provides for health insurance co-ops instead, and right now it's viewed as the only proposal moderate enough to get the votes needed to pass in the Senate.
Montanans support a public option 47 percent to 43 percent, according to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll released August 22.
The two groups running the ad, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, have committed $50,000 to running the ad in Montana and D.C., and they say they plan to raise more to extend the buy.
What more to say? Max is a paranoid douche-nozzle and an embarrassment to my state.
about time. why don't the democrats appoint good democrats to leadership posts? having cowards like Harry and Max in positions of leadership really hurts the image of the party.
That is a very powerful and moving ad that puts the truth out there for all the voters to see. Almost 4 million from insurance companies? The months of mindless groveling before Republicans who demand changes, don't compromise one bit then refuse to vote for it anyway? What is the use of Baucus?