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Senator Max Baucus denies being DRUNK during Senate speech
Syracuse.com ^ | 12.29.09 | Trish LaMonte

Posted on 12/29/2009 7:53:00 AM PST by rface

Montana Senator Max Baucus, who led the Democrats' health care reform legislation through the Senate last week, is responding to accusations that he was intoxicated while delivering a speech on the Senate floor.

Video of the speech posted to YouTube over the weekend shows Baucus appearing to slur some of his words and repeating himself at times.

Baucus' spokesman Tyler Matsdorf released a statement on Monday refuting claims that the Senator was drunk, calling it an 'untrue personal smear Internet rumor.' Matsdorf said, "This is beyond the pale and this type of gutter politics has no place in the public sphere. It is this type of slander that makes Montanans, and Americans, disgusted with the politics as usual in Washington. And what is even more sad is that such a personal attack would be given any validity at all, let alone being elevated to the status of news."

Former Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley posted a video clip of Baucus' speech on his Facebook page on Sunday, and wrote: "breathalyser for members of congress."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: 111th; alcoholic; baucus; denial; drunk; drunkard; maxbaucus
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someone else can add the youtube video of Drunk Baucus
1 posted on 12/29/2009 7:53:02 AM PST by rface
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To: rface
Doesn't matter.

We're using the Democrats Saul Alinsky tactics against them now: Rule #5: "Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon."

How does it feel, Max?

2 posted on 12/29/2009 7:55:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: rface

Well, what WAS he if not drunk?


3 posted on 12/29/2009 7:55:44 AM PST by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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To: rface

It’s a raucous Baucus caucus!


4 posted on 12/29/2009 7:55:44 AM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: rface

I am sure the senocrat (see second #47) was just overwhelmed with emotion, etc.


5 posted on 12/29/2009 7:56:02 AM PST by PrincessB ("if government X-rays are anything like the photos the DMV takes for your license, count me out" A.)
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To: rface

Looks like it took about five days for him and his staff to decide how to handle it. Outraged denial was definitely one way to go, but it’s easier to take seriously when it doesn’t take a week to get there.


6 posted on 12/29/2009 7:56:41 AM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: rface

Senator Foster Brooks of Montana...
8 posted on 12/29/2009 7:57:24 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: rface

Well, he was obviously impaired. Maybe not with booze. Perhaps it was pills. But the guy was definitely high.


9 posted on 12/29/2009 7:57:40 AM PST by Blennos (High Point, NC)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Drunk, stupid, retarded... whatever the outcome is the same with the fisters. How can anyone with half a brain support Menglecare?


10 posted on 12/29/2009 7:57:59 AM PST by dumpthelibs (dumpthelibs)
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To: saganite
It’s a raucous Baucus caucus!

And the democrats cry, "Do not mauc us!"

11 posted on 12/29/2009 7:58:11 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Achtung. preparen zie fur die obamahopenchangen.)
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To: rface

He’s a democrap...if he speaks, he lies.


12 posted on 12/29/2009 7:58:24 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo
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To: saganite

I shertanly was not drrrunk. I swear I just I just I just had a couple of drinks ossifer.


13 posted on 12/29/2009 7:58:35 AM PST by Callahan
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To: hoe_cake

B’sides, what the heck else CAN he do? Say, “Yeah, I was totally wasted.”


14 posted on 12/29/2009 7:58:43 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: rface

Perhaps “stoned” would be a better term to use then?


15 posted on 12/29/2009 7:58:50 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: hoe_cake

We need a breathalyzer result ~ otherwise I’ll accept that the man was quite obviously drunk.


16 posted on 12/29/2009 7:59:32 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: rface

I guess we didn’t see what we saw.

Combine this with Napolitano saying that no homeland security director would say what she said, and I think the next thing we’ll hear is that we were always at war with Oceana and Obama always insisted that the health care takeover was going to be expensive.


17 posted on 12/29/2009 7:59:56 AM PST by DBrow
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To: FrPR

I watched. I decided.


18 posted on 12/29/2009 8:00:39 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: SlowBoat407

I have this image in my head of Max the Capital Drunk stepping down from the podium and locking himself in the tank where Harry “Barney Fife” Reid can keep an eye on him.


19 posted on 12/29/2009 8:01:19 AM PST by Callahan
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To: hoe_cake

Drunk with power.


20 posted on 12/29/2009 8:01:30 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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