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-Lurid Crime Tales-
More on the Baucus honey nominated to be US attorney
2009-12-06
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In which we at Rantburg once again cite the Daily Kos. I tell ya, life is strange sometimes. Absolutely worth the read even though it is long. It's nice to see that someone on the Left is willing to call an abuse of power by a Democrat when they see it. I'm sure the fact that Baucus is pushing the health care bill has nothing to do with it.

Filed under 'Lurid Crime Tales' because it's definitely lurid, it's quite a tale, and if there was any justice, Baucus would resign and Hanes would be prosecuted for her crimes.

The Volokh Conspiracy also covers this.

A preview of the cited LA Times article is available here; the full article costs money.

Another article here is mostly a puff piece but notes that Hanes and Baucus began dating before either had divorced their-then spouses.

Question: how'd she get the job as acting Deputy Administrator for Policy in the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention?
Posted by:Steve White

#6  nekkid pictures of Max Baucus? You sick bastard!
Posted by: Frank G   2009-12-06 09:13  

#5  Where are the naked pictures?
Posted by: Seeker   2009-12-06 09:00  

#4  Well, it can't be her looks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-12-06 02:20  

#3  But at least we finally have an answer to the age-old question “Who do I have to f**k to get a political appointment in Montana?”
Posted by: Steve White   2009-12-05 23:23  

#2  I think that's exactly right. Kos had a diarist cover the story, not himself, to ensure plausible deniability if it blew up in his face.
Posted by: Steve White   2009-12-05 23:21  

#1  Methinks Kos and the LAT are all over this only because Baucus is a relative moderate; probably also because he's pushing a bill that the Left doesn't believe goes far enough.

Had this been Frank, Dodd, or any of the 'progressive' legislators, it'd either would have never seen the light of day or would be in the same 'Hold' box as the climate scandal.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-12-05 20:21  

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