-- Sen. Max Baucus: "I just don't want to die with my boots on."

[kpete]

Quote of the Day
"I just don't want to die with my boots on."

-- Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), quoted by the Billings Gazette, explaining his decision to retire in 2014 and not run for re-election.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/24/quote_of_the_day.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PoliticalWire+%28Political+Wire%29
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/democratic-sen-baucus-rules-out-th-term/article_27a2801b-57bc-5a8a-a547-3da821c02e5b.html#ixzz2RNKLDcwx

[BeyondGeography]

1. I thought he was wearing bedroom slippers

[Botany]

2. But all those who get to die broke and poor because we don't have a single payer ....

.... health system or get shot and die w/ their boots on because we didn't get
any sensible changes in our gun laws can thank Max Baucus.



Baucus and Grassley working to kill even a vote on a single payer health care
system.

[CBGLuthier]

3. He is 71, which is the age these bastards think we should ALL have to work to.

Let him go and bring in someone born in the second half, or no fuck that last QUARTER of the last century for fucks sake.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Yeah, but it's okay

for people without healthcare to die with his boots up their ass, just because his first loyalty was to insurance magnates.

[denverbill]

5. I'm sure he meant kneepads.

[ellie]

6. Yeah, fuck him.

[Paladin]

7. Fair enough, Baucus. Why don't you just fuck yourself with your boots on? (nt)