Click on the image above to see the rambling, babbling drunk on the hill.
Posted on 12/27/2009 10:46:23 PM PST by freespirited
This video of Democratic Senator Max Baucus during the debate on the Democrats' health care takeover is all over the web. Most observers say that Baucus was drunk. We report, you decide:
[click link above for video]
Iclaim no expertise in this area beyond normal human observation, but, for what it's worth, I would say that he was drunk, but is an experienced drinker and was not terribly impaired. What is most interesting to me is how close he comes to articulating the Democrats' real complaint against Republican Senators: they are traitors to their class, i.e., the political class. The Democrats' health care takeover will hurt the American people but vastly expand the power of the political class. Hence Baucus's outrage at Republicans who voted based on "political considerations," which is to say, they sided with the people against their would-be masters. In Vino Veritas!
Someone is going to steal that from you I bet!
“Max Bacchus”....it’s too good to pass up. I predict the New York Post. :)
Based on my observation of liberals, I'd say that he is/was both. Additionally, while he may now be sober, there is no cure for 'stupid'.
Slobberin’ drunk. Just like Diane Sawyer on inauguration day.
I could only take about one minute of his rant. He sounded pretty much like he was in the bag.
Click on the image above to see the rambling, babbling drunk on the hill.
That first minute was when he slurred many of his words. As the tirade went on his speech became much clearer and sounded normal to me. Hard to straighten up like that if you are drunk.
You got a point, maybe Baucas will get his ACORN friends to help him steal his seat in 2014.
LOL! That’s right....
I wouldn’t rule out “stupid,” but he’s sure as heck drunk.
"Baucus, whose public speaking style can be halting and awkward, is not slurring his words, but sometimes repeats himself during the five-minute video."
And Baucus, who has a hangover, sent his spokesman out to say, ""This is beyond the pale, and this type of gutter politics has no place in the public sphere," --Baucus spokesman Ty Matsdorf.
You know what I think is beyond the pale? The president of the United States, who waited 3 days to even comment on the crotch bomber; and then, he blames the Bush administration for it happening! At least Bush had the balls to DO something after 9-11; and he never once blamed bj clinton for it happening...even tho I did.
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