As Ezra Klein just tweeted:
You know what looks like a really good idea in retrospect? The three months Max Baucus wasted on the Gang of Six.From the Hill:
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration for sidestepping Congress to install Donald Berwick atop the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Echoing the concerns of some Republicans on that panel, Baucus called Congress’s role in the appointment process an “essential” check on executive power.
