Max Baucus, Man Of No Principles
Politicians just do not get it.
Still.
If you nominate your squeeze for a public position, it will be rightfully perceived as an abuse of your office. Corruption, cronyism, nepotism, fraud, deceit, call it what you will (I prefer to use all of the aforementioned terms). Not that this is any impediment to Sen. Max Baucus, who saw fit to nominate his girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, for appointment as Montana’s U.S. attorney back in March (and which has only now come to light).
Baucus either knows nothing about politics, nothing about honesty or nothing about how normal people behave.
Come to think of it, it’s probably all three: you’d think that Baucus would perhaps know something of the ins-and-outs of political machinations, having first won elected office in 1974, but, then again, Vice President Joe Biden – four words that will never make any sense together – is proof that one can spend decades in politics without learning a solitary, lonesome thing.
Melodee Hanes is the grinning pixie in the background of the photo, above. She and Baucus got it on while she was working as his state office director, which is only more boring than it is inappropriate. Is there any politician who has not sleazed at least one member of his/her office? A further insight into these cretins is revealed by how they started their affair while they were “separated” from their respective spouses, which I take to mean that they were both still married and committed to different people until death do us part.
If they can treat those supposedly closest to them like this, then there is nothing that they won’t do to shaft the rest of us faceless peons.
Finally, in order to give his corruption a veneer of respectability, Baucus decided to have “an independent, third-party reviewer” look over the process that led to the names of Haines and two other people being sent to the White House for consideration.
The twist is this (and its immense stupidity is firmly on the scale of idiocy set by M. Night Shyamalan’s “surprise” endings): the reviewer was Dana Christensen, a Montana lawyer who contributed $3,400 to Baucus’ political campaigns from 1989 to 2002.
Max Baucus, ladies and gentlemen, doing his bit to fulfill as many base stereotypes of politicians as possible.
December 9th, 2009 at 00:20
Ya think?!?!?!?!
I know this piece of human waste. I really do know him on top of him being my senator for many years. I have not lived in Montana since 1998 but I had his sorry ass in the Senate when I was on active duty and any native son of Montana in uniform would just as soon knock his sorry ass out as shake his hand.
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December 9th, 2009 at 11:12
Ooof, I feel for you, Glenn.
Where have you since moved? Don’t tell me to Massachusetts, Maine or Illinois, etc…
December 12th, 2009 at 01:08
Did about eleven years in Kansas with about seven in the aircraft factories in Wichita. Plus four years on the road with Herzog on the Rock Trains.
In California as it was the job I could get. It was a status candidate position for AF civil service. I met the status at 30 percent service-connected disabled. And the being a Retired Navy Airframes guy didn’t hurt either.
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