Sen Max Baucus is, allegedly, a Democrat. Democrats were sent to Washington, DC, state legislatures and other elected bodies in huge numbers last year because Americans were sick of what the Republicans were doing and they wanted change. Real change. To make this message clear, vast numbers of Dems were elected with the mandate to join the President in real change. So what is Baucus doing?

Trying to appease Republican Senators.

Ok, a moment to mutter dark obscenities under my breath. Then: What the frack is wrong with him? Is he waiting for his copy of the memo that explains the new political landscape? Does he not know the Rs have been repudiated by the voters and that Barack Obama is the leader the American people chose — not Chuck Grassley?

Yesterday in an interview in Esquire, Howard Dean spoke of Washington, DC being "he most conservative town in America. Its culture is the most resistant to change except a few religious cults." Conservative does not even begin to cover it. It's like Baucus does not give a damn what people voted for. As if the polls that show three-quarters of the nation demanding a public option do not matter. Max Baucus is treating the American people as irrelevant while he concentrates on pleasing Chuck Grassley.

And I hope that sounds as nasty as I intend it to be.

Don't forget the breath mint after, Max.