And now the other shoe drops.<\/p>\n
Less than a week after telling HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that her implementation of ObamaCare\u2019s costly and confusing health care system is a \u201ctrain wreck,\u201d<\/a> U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) announces he\u2019s retiring<\/a>.<\/p>\n Baucus\u2019s comments caused a stir because they met the Washington, D.C. definition of a gaffe \u2013 telling the truth in public.\u00a0 With the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and lead ObamaCare author, on record as criticizing the President\u2019s signature policy, it looked like it might finally be acceptable for Democrats in Congress to admit the obvious: ObamaCare is a disaster in the making.<\/p>\n But rather than stick around and fight to reform the law, Baucus is choosing to bow out of a tough reelection campaign in 2014. The decision could make it much easier for Republicans to pick up the seat, potentially adding another vote to the conservative-led repeal caucus.<\/p>\n Whatever the spin, this much is clear. Last week Baucus let it be known he could no longer defend the law. Now, it\u2019s clear he can\u2019t win with it either.<\/p>\n Hopefully, it\u2019s the start of a trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And now the other shoe drops. Less than a week after telling HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that her implementation of ObamaCare\u2019s costly and confusing health care system is a \u201ctrain wreck,\u201d U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) announces he\u2019s retiring. Baucus\u2019s comments caused a stir because they met the Washington, D.C. definition of a gaffe \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,3308,186,476,230,35,1447,1001,178],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-max-baucus","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-repeal","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}