Why is Max Baucus still chairman of the Senate Finance Committee?

[chieftain]

I know that is a facetious question but it is one I plan to call into Harry Reid's office tomorrow. When will the Democratic leadership start to demand a semblance of party discipline? Were LBJ still the Majority Leader, a weasel like Baucus would not have dared break with the President on a key issue. And if somehow he did, the perks of his office would have been stripped from him.No chairmanship, no cushy digs and an office location that is so far from the capitol that you have to take Amtrak to come and cast a vote, would be his lot.
Shumer and Durbin need to tell Reid to move on the fillibuster reform and punish cowards like Max.
As our elected officials act as if business as usual is an acceptable mode of operation, our democracy is dying.

[Tender to the Bone]

1. Baucus is a traitor to Democracy, and has been for years.

Strip him of all committee chairmanship and assignment, and reassign him to the lowliest of all low commitee assignment and tell him to suck it up or resign, effective immediately.

[chieftain]

2. Baucus got played by Grassley on ACA.

How can anyone with a shred of self respect look himself in the mirror after being played for fool by Chuck Grassley?

[MirrorAshes]

3. shameful n/t

[Marrah_G]

4. because congress is corrupt?

Just my guess

[leveymg]

5. 5th rec. He ruined HCR, then he went GOP on tax policy, now he's an NRA stooge.

Atop that, he's the #1 receipent of AIPAC money in the Senate.

He's the #1 Bluedog problem in the Senate.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Party leadership wants him right where he is doing what he does. The party leadership doesn't

want things to be better for you, they want things to be better for the people they work for.