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a kennedy

(29,467 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:32 PM Apr 2013

Max Baucus On Call To Retire: 'It Whispered To Me Among The Elk Resting In A Meadow'

Yup this guy should have retired a l o n g time ago.....he's nuts.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is really happy about retiring from the Senate. So happy, in fact, that he's turning to poetry to explain the deep calling he felt to step down.

"It whispered to me among the elk resting in a meadow east of the Bridger Mountains," Baucus wrote in a Great Falls Tribune op-ed published late Thursday.

"I heard it as thousands of snow geese flew over the Rocky Mountain Front."

"The pull came up from my soul like the ducks that rose in clouds from the winter wheat fields of Teton County at dusk."

Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has long had a penchant for literary or historical references. Just this week, his opening remarks in a hearing on trade policy included an anecdote about Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana, and he began another hearing on the foster care system with a quote by Winston Churchill about the "virtues of human society."

Baucus announced Tuesday that he will step down in 2014, bringing an end to his 35 years in the Senate. His decision elicited cheers from progressive groups, who have long criticized him for his history of voting with corporate interests. Baucus said he made the decision after conversations with his wife and his family.

"I will serve out my term, and then it will be time to go home to Montana," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/26/max-baucus-retirement_n_3163025.html

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Max Baucus On Call To Retire: 'It Whispered To Me Among The Elk Resting In A Meadow' (Original Post) a kennedy Apr 2013 OP
Hopefully those Elk will chase him out of their meadow when they spot him after he retires. AndyA Apr 2013 #1
I think he needs to retire to a home... waddirum Apr 2013 #2
Here's some poetry for him. Cleita Apr 2013 #3
Here The Picture Of That Elk: KharmaTrain Apr 2013 #4
As a Montanan roughly 20 years his junior LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #5
the elk whispered "cha-ching!" Enrique Apr 2013 #6
that SOB knew he was fucking us while he was madokie Apr 2013 #7
Sounds like... KatyMan Apr 2013 #8

AndyA

(16,993 posts)
1. Hopefully those Elk will chase him out of their meadow when they spot him after he retires.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:38 PM
Apr 2013

They'd probably have preferred a public option to be in the health care debate, as it would have done a lot to reduce their health care costs!

waddirum

(976 posts)
2. I think he needs to retire to a home...
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:39 PM
Apr 2013

where the staff can keep a close eye on Max and adjust his medication accordingly.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
3. Here's some poetry for him.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:42 PM
Apr 2013
There once was a Senator from Montana
He had the power to make a difference
But instead he said I don't wanna
I'd rather be bought for the influence

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
4. Here The Picture Of That Elk:
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:42 PM
Apr 2013


Anne E. Elk...she now is the CEO of an insurance company that will hire Maxie to be a high-paid lobbyist the moment he walks off the Senate floor. Time to cash in!

LiberalLoner

(9,761 posts)
5. As a Montanan roughly 20 years his junior
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 03:15 PM
Apr 2013

I completely get the lyrical speech. Most of us from Montana are damn proud of our home state and have a deep appreciation of the beautiful land and the critters that share the land with us.

And we generally feel more free to share what is in our hearts because we grow up with a kind of freedom that is hard to explain to others. In Montana you can be whatever you want and people pretty much leave you alone. There is not a lot of social pressure to conform.

I look at what he said and I think, that's not crazy talk, that's just Montana talk is all.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
7. that SOB knew he was fucking us while he was
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 03:25 PM
Apr 2013

fucking us. Fuck him and the elk who whispers in his fucking ear.

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