[lbo-talk] Baucus to Meet with Single-Payer Advocates

[Michael Pollak]

In order to blow them off:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/max-baucus-regrets-killin_n_210935.html

But in his magnanimity:

    The Montana senator did, however, agree to use the power of his

    office to fight for leniency on behalf of the dozen or so doctors

    and nurses who had been arrested for demanding a single-payer

    program during committee hearings on health care.

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This is guy is a study in how little public opinion matters on this issue. 
Supposedly Baucus got hammered all across his home state on this issue:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/baucus-battered-by-voters_n_209865.html

But he couldn't care less.  They might as well have been howling at a 
Montana moon.

Michael