Sep
30
“Democrats kill the public option.” Well, the public option lives beyond the Senate Finance Committee. But that headline should still give chills to anyone who thought that a Democratic supermajority guaranteed us the passage of progressive legislation. The problem, after all, is not in our foes but in our own party. It is in Max Baucus, chair of the finance committee, the Montana “Democrat” who seems far more concerned with the wishes of one Republican, Olympia Snowe, than with the wishes o
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