Claire McCaskill joins with Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, and Olympia to provide some tepid support to the Baucus debacle:
"We commend Chairman Baucus for his efforts to forge a health care reform proposal that has the potential to gain broad bipartisan support," the statement reads. "While we each have outstanding concerns we wish to see addressed, Senator Baucus has taken an important and critical step forward with this legislation, which is budget neutral and reduces future health care costs according to CBO."
Wow! What enthusiasm!
Note, only one of these Senators--Snowe--is on the Senate Finance Committee, so the "commendation" carries not a whole lot of weight, since it's pretty unlikely to come out of that committee in it's current form. At any rate, rah, rah, bipartisan . . . something. Max Baucus is still pretty much the loneliest man in the Senate.