The truth will out

It's amazing to me, now that 'the wicked witch is dead,' what some top Washington players are willing to say on the record.

Max Bauchus is the Democratic Chair of the Senate Finance Committee and a key senator in getting health care reform passed. For an article in the upcoming Sunday New York Times Magazine on how Obama is working with Congress on the issue, Matt Bai reports a conversation with Bauchus:

When I asked Baucus, who worked with George W. Bush to pass his tax cuts in 2001, what kind of impression he had formed of Obama to this point, he looked down at his hands and thought for a moment. “How do I say this delicately?” he asked. “President Bush, he liked being president. You know, there are be-ers, and there are doers. And I think he liked being president, as opposed to doing.” Obama, on the other hand, strikes Baucus as a doer. “You’ve really got to work at it, rather than just enjoying the job,” he said.

These days, I become almost manic with excitement as the cover comes off the last eight years, and the truth comes burbling out. This one is minor compared to the exposure of the cheney lies. But we were so starved for the truth during the bush/cheney era that it feels a little like Dickens' street urchin Oliver Twist getting his daily ration of gruel and saying, "may I have more, please?"

Ralph