THE CARTERIZATION OF THE U.R. BEGINS EARLY:

Baucus Outlines Health Care Plan (Drew Armstrong, 11/12/08, Congressional Quarterly)

Max Baucus , the head of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, laid down a marker on a health care overhaul Wednesday, declaring his independence from other power brokers and signaling that Congress would not wait for the new president to move forward on the issue.

The 89-page document Baucus unveiled stakes out his own territory on the issue independent from Edward M. Kennedy , D-Mass., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and also suggests that Baucus intends for Congress to take the lead.

It took Bill Clinton nearly three years to figure out triangulation. We'll see how quick a study the new guy is.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2008 6:53 PM