The Washington Post’s Emily Heil says, “Hide your puppies, it’s Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus,”noting:
— Best quote from Tuesday’s profile by our colleague Lori Montgomery of Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (who is, for the record, a known dog lover): “You gotta kill some puppies,” [Baucus] said cheerfully, quoting an off-beat motivational poster he once saw in Texas. “You can’t do it all. You gotta make choices. It’s all priorities. You gotta kill a puppy.”
Here’s the reference from the Montgomery piece:
Baucus said he still dreams of competing in the Western States Endurance Run, which snakes 100 miles through California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. But training for another ultra-marathon is time-consuming, he said, and probably not in the cards.
“You gotta kill some puppies,” he said cheerfully, quoting an off-beat motivational poster he once saw in Texas. “You can’t do it all. You gotta make choices. It’s all priorities. You gotta kill a puppy.”
As I previously predicted, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) is going to spend the months leading up to his 2014 re-election battle pretending to be pro-2nd Amendment, even as his “son” Jim Messina runs the gun control campaign for the White House. Talking Points Memo: “Baucus Open to Filibustering Gun Control Bill“
TPM pressed him on whether he’ll vote for a motion to begin debate.
“That’s to be determined,” he said. “My primary emphasis is the people I work for, and that’s Montanans.”
Meanwhile, Baucus’ fellow Obamacare architect Rockefeller says the law is ‘beyond comprehension:’
The Washington Examiner has this:
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start it will just get worse.
Decrying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as way too complex, he warned the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.”