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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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To: rface

If he wasn’t drunk which it CLEARLY looked like he was, then a stroke comes to mind...nah, he was too smelly according to the guy next to him.


61 posted on 12/29/2009 8:28:23 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Texican72
“Baucus Drunk” is the first thing showing when you type in “Baucus” on bing.com.

I just posted this info as its own thread here:
Google Spikes Drunk Baucus Story

Post that info there if you got a second. :)

Do you have a screenshot? I would do it, but my Firefox busted and I would need to restart my PC to get it going... for some reason, my new IE will not copy large screenshots to the clipboard (CTRL PRTSCRN, ALT PRTSCRN don't work!)

62 posted on 12/29/2009 8:30:18 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: hoe_cake
Naturally stupid...
63 posted on 12/29/2009 8:32:29 AM PST by ejonesie22
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To: rface

He had a stroke then? That slurring was pretty pronounced as was his inability to sound coherent.


64 posted on 12/29/2009 8:35:01 AM PST by OpusatFR (Tagline not State Approved. Thoughts not State Approved. Actions not State Approved)
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To: CholeraJoe

Yep.

And the cool thing about the vehement denial is this:

Montana folk will be saying: “I’ll be the judge of that.”

They’ll visit the site and come away blushing.

Mr. Bacchus, you blew it. Coulda kept your mouth shut, kept the gerbil scat in, but no-o-o-o.


65 posted on 12/29/2009 8:39:06 AM PST by StAntKnee (I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
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To: hoe_cake

Prediction: By the end of the week it will be another press release. He was very tired and a legal prescription drug impaired his speech.


66 posted on 12/29/2009 8:41:03 AM PST by StAntKnee (I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
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To: hoe_cake

Stoned?


67 posted on 12/29/2009 8:42:04 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: hoe_cake

The only thing missing was the lampshade on his head.


68 posted on 12/29/2009 8:44:03 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: rface

Drunks often take denial of their problem to outrageous extremes when caught red handed.


69 posted on 12/29/2009 8:46:23 AM PST by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: HerrBlucher

LOL! or the pantyhose on his head.


70 posted on 12/29/2009 8:47:12 AM PST by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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To: stormer

That’s what I was thinking - Foley doesn’t have a lot of room to throw stones.


71 posted on 12/29/2009 8:48:22 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: StAntKnee

The spin will be that he’s diabetic and his blood sugar was low.

I think that will be my excuse come this New Year’s Eve.


72 posted on 12/29/2009 8:48:35 AM PST by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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To: hoe_cake

Democrat...


73 posted on 12/29/2009 8:49:47 AM PST by maddog55 (Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly, they do it to people on the right all the time. They don’t like it when the shoe is on the other foot though.


74 posted on 12/29/2009 8:51:14 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: rface

Hmmm? Maybe it’s time that the congressional members submit to random drug tests?????


75 posted on 12/29/2009 8:53:01 AM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: rface

He actually wants us to believe him. The dems lie about everything; so why should we?


76 posted on 12/29/2009 8:54:47 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Blennos
Yeah, I think I heard somewhere that he had a pill problem. Or maybe it was a gender issue, can't remember for sure but what the he11, the dems and the MSM make a living out of drive-by chit like this.

He can deal with it.

77 posted on 12/29/2009 8:55:50 AM PST by skimbell
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To: rface

“breathalyser for members of congress.”

They might add drug tests for them too.


78 posted on 12/29/2009 8:56:15 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: OrioleFan

What a hoot!!!!!


79 posted on 12/29/2009 8:58:23 AM PST by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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To: xjcsa
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.

Yup. He'd also be more credible if he faced the press and addressed the allegations himself. That he released a statement through his press flack speaks volumes to me.

Plastered.

80 posted on 12/29/2009 9:00:40 AM PST by freespirited (People talk about "too big to fail." Our government is too big to succeed. --Chris Chocola)
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