Morning Examiner: Silly constituent, reading bills is for peasants

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It would have been a waste of time to read the health care bill, says Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont, its author. Why read bills after going to all the trouble of having lobbyists who are your former staffers write them for you?

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R, trails by 1,668 votes. She can still pull it out if she runs than 5-to-3 in the absentees — provided most of them are Republican ballots. But Scott McAdams, D expects to face Joe Miller, R, for Senate.

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