Baucus denounces video as ‘personal smear’

helenair.com ^ | 12/28/09 | MIKE DENNISON

[Nachum]

Sen. Max Baucus' office Monday denounced a widely viewed Internet video that suggested Baucus was drunk on the Senate floor last week, calling it an "untrue, personal smear" designed to attack Democrats' health-care reform legislation.

"This is beyond the pale, and this type of gutter politics has no place in the public sphere," said Baucus spokesman Ty Matsdorf.

[Nachum]

Here's to Baucus, he's true blue...
He's a drunkard through and through.... so....

DRINK, chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug

(just trying to help)

[Duke Nukum]

At least 60 senators had to be bombed out of their minds to pass this train wreck.

[Steely Tom]

Gee, Max. You sound upset.

[Jet Jaguar]

[lmr]

Somebody call the Whambulance! This is SERIES.

[redpoll]

I watched the video and I honestly couldn’t tell if he was drunk.

However, I could tell that his words claiming to have reached out to the Republicans and seeking bipartisanship were wholesale lies. So maybe claiming drunkedness is a good defense for his empty words.

[Army Air Corps]

I thought that Wild Irish Rose would be more his speed.

[Jet Jaguar]

[driftdiver]

he knows something about the gutter.

[Jet Jaguar]

[Nachum]

“Old Crow”. Sounds about right. :)

[dfwgator]

Juice, juice, juice
Really makes you loose loose, loose,
Really goes down so smooth,
Really puts you in the groove.
Have you heard? What’s the word?
It’s Thunderbird.

[freespirited]

I watched the video and I honestly couldn’t tell if he was drunk.

Yeah, now that you mention it, I guess it is not so easy to tell a drunk RAT from a sober one. Neither makes sense.

I still think he was punch drunk.

[Jet Jaguar]

[Hexenhammer]

He would know about the gutter, no doubt having spent some time passed out drunk there...

[Jet Jaguar]

[Jet Jaguar]

[Clemenza]

What's the word?:

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Are there any tapes or videos to compare with this one?

[Army Air Corps]

That Night Train is a mean wine.

[Elkiejg]

Love the pictures!!!

If Baucus wasn’t drunk (and I say he was) then he needs to see a doctor right away because he had a serious stroke for his words to be that slurred and his thoughts that jumbled!!

Take care Max baby, or your girlfriend will be without her sugar daddy.

[Jet Jaguar]

[ABQHispConservative]

All rats are thinned skinned. Did he think we were going to love him after 0-care?

[Rembrandt]

“This is beyond the pale, and this type of gutter politics has no place in the public sphere,”

He’s right of course; gutter politics is the exclusive domain of the Rats. They are really good at it, much better than Conservatives.

[Jet Jaguar]

My pleasure!

[Dawgreg]

Well, if he WASN’T drunk, he was havin’ mini strokes....:)

[Jet Jaguar]

[truthandlife]

Maybe they need to start putting these signs up around the Capitol:

[decal]

He wouldn't have seemed quite so intoxicated if he'd been drinking the right stuff...

[Seven plus One]

That's pretty rich. A public pronouncement by himself, on C-Span, in his own words and gestures, and it's a "personal smear". Democrats just do not like the public to notice their strategy of routine petulant truculence. When the pubic does notice, then they really start to whine.

[Jet Jaguar]

[truthandlife]

[truthandlife]

I bet the Democrats could win the college vote if they turn the Baucus speeches into a drinking game.

[Jet Jaguar]

[Snickering Hound]

30 years later just change the label to "Baucus" Beer.

[Jet Jaguar]

"I bet the Democrats could win the college vote if they turn the Baucus speeches into a drinking game."

[socialismisinsidious]

Time for one of the loony libs to bring up the fairness doctrine.

[freebilly]

Not drunk..., just a complete stupid moron....

[Intolerant in NJ]

Max Baucus' office Monday denounced a widely viewed Internet video that suggested Baucus was drunk on the Senate floor last week, calling it an "untrue, personal smear"...who ya going to believe - Max or your own lying eyes and ears?.....

[Army Air Corps]

That reminds me of Vietnamese moonshine. Interesting stuff. It is a drink, fuel additive, paint stripper, disinfectant...

[MileHi]

Finally, confirmation.

[Jet Jaguar]

Acne killier. ;0)

[italianquaker]

Was he hanging with Michelle

[Slings and Arrows]

Under this administration, life is a drinking game.

[Gator113]

The guy was drunk, on drugs, having a stroke, or some other medical issue.

My bet is he was drunk.

[Army Air Corps]

degreaser, rust remover...

[hocndoc]

The article claims he’s not slurring his words. Then posts/links to the video.

Of course, he’s slurring his words. I believe he’s drunk or under the influence of something or several somethings: Power, fatigue, alcohol and/or prescription drugs.

[Army Air Corps]

He was trying to honour the memory of Ted Kennedy.

[gitmo]

I watched the video. He sounds either drunk or he is having a stroke.

[Jet Jaguar]

hydraulic fluid additive, and canteen warmer.