According to this Politico article, that's what Mike Enzi said today. He declared a "train wreck" the slow, methodical work he and the five other senators on the bipartisan coalition of the Senate Finance committee have undertaken.
Do those sound like the words of someone negotiating in good faith? That is, to anyone but Max Baucus?
"We're trying to do some really crazy stuff on a really short time frame," Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), a member of the Finance committee, said Thursday. "This is a train wreck."
This, after the Democratic members of that coalition have agreed to major concessions that significantly weaken the bill: regional co-ops, no employer mandate, etc.
The real "train wreck" here is that Baucus has given so much power to Enzi and Chuck Grassley, two senators who have little if any incentive to produce a good bill, or any bill at all.
I fear that our activism today is exclusively focused on the House, when at least incremental progress is being made there.
We've got to put pressure on members of Senate Finance. Now.
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