Max Baucus actually said...

If Mr. Lew is committed to playing the same partisan games... we are going to have serious difficulties.

We need to take a scalpel to waste and inefficiency, not allow a hatchet to hack into American jobs.

Together, with interest savings, these actions will cut the deficit by $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years.

They want us to work together and get our act together.