It appears that the days of smoke-filled rooms are not quite dead. At least not if Sen Max Baucus has anything to say about it.

From The Washington Post: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus announced Monday that he may unveil his long-awaited health-care bill as soon as Tuesday — and he predicted that Republicans will find plenty to like about it.

The Montana Democrat and his fellow “Gang of Six” Finance Committee negotiators haggled Monday over top Republican concerns, including provisions that would limit medical malpractice cases, bar benefits from reaching illegal immigrants, and block federal funds from subsidizing abortions. The goal from the talks is to win over Sens. Charles E. Grassley (Iowa) and Mike Enzi (Wyo.), two conservatives who have remained at the table all summer despite strong opposition from most of their GOP colleagues.

“Senators on and off the committee, their comfort level is starting to come up a bit,” Baucus told reporters during an afternoon break in talks. “I do believe that strongly, and I believe in the end we’ll have some significant bipartisan support.”

And just how far have they or any of their comrades read of this bill? Limbaugh was reading just the Table of Contents of Baucus’s bill on his show late last week and that took better than four pages. And the second of half of that was nothing more a vast array of taxes on oil and other energy companies. Sounded more like the Crap and Steal bill to me than ObamaCare. Which I am sure is not by accident.

Seems like they did not get the memo over the weekend…

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