Click to see video of the drunk in action.
Posted on 12/28/2009 7:52:21 AM PST by freespirited
A speech by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on health care has been generating buzz on the Internet, as the Drudge Report and others are suggesting that Baucus was slurring his speech and possibly "intoxicated" during his remarks.
"DRUNK WITH POWER? TOP DEM SLURS ON SENATE FLOOR..." reads the Drudge Report headline.
Newsbusters.org writes: "How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant."
On his Facebook page, former congressman Mark Foley commented on the video: "This is the senator that hired his staffer and then took her on trips...and divorced his wife....and they had me run out of town."
An email seeking comment has been sent to Sen. Baucus's office and we will update this post when we hear back.
Limited modified hangout time.
You continue to be quoted!
Hades will freeze over first.
NO one was asked to keep Baucus away from the mic ?
Our legislative body is a friggin' joke ... t'row ALL d'bums out !!
I’m not as think as you drunk I am.
Expect more CYA as the dummies try to obscure the fact that they and they alone are responsible for this mess.
Blaming the GOP after locking them out of any and all negotiations is so Napolitano attempting to bend reality.
He only had tea martoonies!
Click to see video of the drunk in action.
He keeps asking of his Republican collegues “where’s the courage?”. I guess the pubbies needed more liquid courage to vote for this health insurance bill.
i hope he was drunk. then he’d have an excuse for the outrgight lies and BS coming out of his mouth..
i hope he was drunk. then he’d have an excuse for the outrgight lies and BS coming out of his mouth..
"Exhaustion"
"Allergy Medication"
"Prescription Meds"
"Boys will be Boys"
"Reason why more women shuld be in the Senate"
Just Vote Them Out.
Bacchus?
He was also known as Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans[2] and the frenzy he induces, bakkheia. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater. He was also known as the Liberator (Eleutherios), freeing one from one’s normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
It hardly matters whether Baucus was drunk or otherwise. Indeed if not intoxicated the indictment is even worse, that is his sober behavior!
That performance is unbelievable. There was a comment on FR that was not unusual for a Senate speech. Well then isn't that a graphic portrayal of their arrogance, that they can act like that in "their" own chamber (which actually belongs to us)? Isn't that a graphic reason for legislation to be returned to the "chambers," like the States, where the legislators are more closely monitored and accountable to the citizens?
Any way one looks at it this is a blatant indictment of the arrogance and sickness of the privileged, centralized, Federal legislators, and Democrats are far and away the most heinous.
How can the Media, or the State of Montana for that matter, possibly apologize or defend this buffoon?
Like Al Franken or Barabara Boxer they are absent any class whatsoever. Toad Hall.
Johnny Suntrade
I bartended for years, I heard that and similar drunken jibberish many times. The indignation of drunks is quite amusing.
Did even Fox News cover this drunken screed?
Not unusual? OK how about shocking? Appalling? Horrifying?
All legislators should be required to submit to a breathalyzer at random throughout the work day.
Dont know. I’d say there is one chance in 10 that Oreilly will touch it tonight.
More likely Hannity.
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