http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/08/05/rockefeller_blasts_gang_of_six.htmlRockefeller Blasts "Gang of Six"
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is tired of the focus on the Senate Finance Committee's "gang of six" senators that is negotiating a bipartisan health care reform bill, reports Politico.
Said Rockefeller: "All the attention is going to those three Republicans... you just watch as this bill diminishes. Those three won't be there when the bill passes."
The three Republicans: Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Mike Enzi of Wyoming. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) "has insisted on their support in getting the Senate health bill out of committee."
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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/8/5/105248/9391 Stop Pretendingby BooMan
Wed Aug 5th, 2009 at 10:52:48 AM EST
I'm having a very difficult time understanding how Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) can be considered a potential partner in a bipartisan health care bill. According to Progressive Punch, he is the sixth most conservative member of the Senate. The only senators with worse records? Barrasso, Bunning, Cornyn, Inhofe, and DeMint. Because Sen. Enzi doesn't do much television, I don't think most people know who he is. But he is basically a slightly more jovial version of Dick Cheney. Because he is the ranking member and former chair of the HELP Committee, he has done some bipartisan work on health care with Teddy Kennedy. But
the idea that Enzi, of all people, is going to break with the conservative movement and vote to end a filibuster on health care is ludicrous. So, can we stop pretending?