Break bread with this guy at your own risk.

Meet the big problem for Democrats not to mention,  public policy. Max Baucus is Democrat in the same way Benedict Arnold was American, which is to say, in

name only and for one purpose only. While enjoying the title his membership in a majority party has given him, Max has been an integral part of the Republican game plan. I’m betting a big Mac that next election if Max runs, he will run as either independent or Republican.

Let’s not blame Max. He got his seat and held it because a timid party allowed it. At any time he could have been gone had anyone in leadership had the spine to take him one. But like the failed courtship of a handful of Republicans, Max was a date that was never going to happen. And now that he has so damaged the Obama agenda, Max will continue to enjoy the benifits of his chairmanship.

Say what you will about the Westminster system, but in that system Max would have been sitting in a dark corner somewhere the first time he tried to thwart the governments agenda. And that is where he should be, outside the party. He was not then, nor will he ever be a Democrat.