Baucus' 'no' vote on public option draws otherwise friendly fire

Sen. Max Baucus angered many Democrats back home in Montana when he voted last week against a "public option" in the health care reform legislation working its way through the Senate Finance Committee. Full Story »

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Jo Bobenhouse Smith
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by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Oct. 5, 2009

This is a local Montana-specific story with an unfortuneate title. The closing paragraphs with comments from locally know politicians should be at the beginning of the story. I would have lead with Sabato's analogy and used it in the title. Sabato: "Health care reform is a 10-act play, and you do not write a review of the play until you see the end of all the acts," Sabato said. "We don't know what's going on behind the scenes. (Democrats) do have a plan for a bill, and they have a plan for how they're going to get this done, but we won't know what that is until it's done."

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