Boom Goes the (hic) Dynamite Baucus Drunk on Senate Floor

Fitting mental state for a Democrat speech defending their health care fiasco.

Hic!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA"]YouTube- Senator Max Baucus Drunk / Intoxicated on Senate Floor - Shouts Down Wicker[/ame]

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That's awesome. Bacchus WAS the God of wine, after all. :lol:

Kandahar said:

That's awesome. Bacchus WAS the God of wine, after all. :lol:

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He looks like Michelangelo's Baucus (Bacchus)... small head and all.



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Author of Senate ObamaCare bill delivers … interesting floor speech

Hollywood couldn't have dream this up...LOL!!!

Via Newsbusters. On a scale from one to 10, how hack-ish would a “When they said they were filled with the spirit of Ted Kennedy, they weren’t kidding” joke here be? I’m thinking eight, maybe nine. Right in what I like to call “the AP zone,” baby.

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA"]YouTube- Senator Max Baucus Drunk / Intoxicated on Senate Floor - Shouts Down Wicker[/ame]

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I've decided not to watch your video because I think Max should not be given the time.

He's a piece of **** Senator.

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Arch Enemy said:

I've decided not to watch your video because I think Max should not be given the time.

He's a piece of **** Senator.

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Aww, man, you're really missing out! It's funny!

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Maybe if our leaders in Washington were drunk or high something might be accomplished since it seems they can ****ing function while sober.

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This is funny stuff. Is it real or some kind of spoof>

How did the folks on MSNBC miss this one.

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washunut said:

This is funny stuff. Is it real or some kind of spoof>

How did the folks on MSNBC miss this one.

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Here is a link claiming this to be part of a smear campaign against Baucus. Baucus says he had nothing to drink and was just exhausted. I can believe that because, on many occasions, I have talked exactly like that after not sleeping for a couple of days, and I am normally pretty articulate when I speak. IMHO, the Republicans are grasping at straws here, trying anything in the Karl Marx playbook ("the ends justify the means"), because they had their collective asses handed to them on the health care bill. How the Republican party went from "take no prisoners" to "the party of epic whiners" will go down in history as legendary.

Edit: Forgot the link. Here it is. LOL.

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danarhea said:

Here is a link claiming this to be part of a smear campaign against Baucus. Baucus says he had nothing to drink and was just exhausted. I can believe that because, on many occasions, I have talked exactly like that after not sleeping for a couple of days, and I am normally pretty articulate when I speak. IMHO, the Republicans are grasping at straws here, trying anything in the Karl Marx playbook ("the ends justify the means"), because they had their collective asses handed to them on the health care bill. How the Republican party went from "take no prisoners" to "the party of epic whiners" will go down in history as legendary.

Edit: Forgot the link. Here it is. LOL.

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yeah.....Somehow I doubt that any Senator would willingly admit that they were drunk while up there on that little podium. In fact I'm pretty sure that they would deny it.

I'm not saying weather he was drunk or not cause I really don't know, I wasn't there. But I'm not going to rely on his word either.

And it's not like it's the first time that some politician was blamed for being drunk. How many times was Bush said to have been drunk? I think that I once read one headline while at a check out stand that basically said that he was always drunk.

Politics as normal.

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Kal'Stang said:

yeah.....Somehow I doubt that any Senator would willingly admit that they were drunk while up there on that little podium. In fact I'm pretty sure that they would deny it.

I'm not saying weather he was drunk or not cause I really don't know, I wasn't there. But I'm not going to rely on his word either.

And it's not like it's the first time that some politician was blamed for being drunk. How many times was Bush said to have been drunk? I think that I once read one headline while at a check out stand that basically said that he was always drunk.

Politics as normal.

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The point would be that many are relying on assumption and guesses to say he was drunk. There were at least three threads started on just this topic, which just shows how much some people are looking for something, anything to bitch about.

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Redress said:

The point would be that many are relying on assumption and guesses to say he was drunk. There were at least three threads started on just this topic, which just shows how much some people are looking for something, anything to bitch about.

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My point was just to address about a Senator denying <insert whatever here> is really nothing new and that since senators lie about these types of things all the time we can't take their word for it. Which of course leaves it up to a persons imagination.

Sure people may be just looking for something to bitch about, but there will always be people like that in any time period. Sometimes there will be more, sometimes there will be less. And in today's social and economic atmosphere I can't really blame anyone for bitching, on either side.

Think about it...

People being called pretty much every name in the book...by elected representatives. Sure this may have been done in past presidencies...but I don't think it's ever been done to this extent...except maybe during the Civil War period.

A stimulus that as far as people can tell is not working...doesn't help when the government is talking about another stimulus possibly being worked on.

Cap and trade: which is going to cost taxpayers (including the ones Obama promised wouldn't see no new taxes) more of their money..and not just out of their checks but also their lively hoods (cost jobs).

A health care bill that the majority of people think is a bad idea.

A president who goes around the world apologizing for America.

A president who took months to decide to listen to his generals in reinforcing our troops in Afghanistan. (and even then he didn't give as many troops as was asked for)

People are thinking that their rights are being taken away.

A government that has taken over 2 major private (IE non-government) corporations.

People are realizing that our elected representatives are doing everything that they can to twist the essence of our Constitution. Something which MANY people hold in the highest respect. (and I'm not saying that this started under Obama..I'm just saying that they are just now realizing it...well the majority of people are realizing it.)

More and more elected representatives are resigning due to found out corruption/scandals.

And the list goes on and on. These are only the things that I could think of off the top of my head.

Point is that in this day and age of near instantaneous communication combined with the list above (and then some) more things are going to be found out and cried out against...even things which some people would consider stupid or "grasping".

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Kal'Stang said:

My point was just to address about a Senator denying <insert whatever here> is really nothing new and that since senators lie about these types of things all the time we can't take their word for it. Which of course leaves it up to a persons imagination.

Sure people may be just looking for something to bitch about, but there will always be people like that in any time period. Sometimes there will be more, sometimes there will be less. And in today's social and economic atmosphere I can't really blame anyone for bitching, on either side.

Think about it...

People being called pretty much every name in the book...by elected representatives. Sure this may have been done in past presidencies...but I don't think it's ever been done to this extent...except maybe during the Civil War period.

A stimulus that as far as people can tell is not working...doesn't help when the government is talking about another stimulus possibly being worked on.

Cap and trade: which is going to cost taxpayers (including the ones Obama promised wouldn't see no new taxes) more of their money..and not just out of their checks but also their lively hoods (cost jobs).

A health care bill that the majority of people think is a bad idea.

A president who goes around the world apologizing for America.

A president who took months to decide to listen to his generals in reinforcing our troops in Afghanistan. (and even then he didn't give as many troops as was asked for)

People are thinking that their rights are being taken away.

A government that has taken over 2 major private (IE non-government) corporations.

People are realizing that our elected representatives are doing everything that they can to twist the essence of our Constitution. Something which MANY people hold in the highest respect. (and I'm not saying that this started under Obama..I'm just saying that they are just now realizing it...well the majority of people are realizing it.)

More and more elected representatives are resigning due to found out corruption/scandals.

And the list goes on and on. These are only the things that I could think of off the top of my head.

Point is that in this day and age of near instantaneous communication combined with the list above (and then some) more things are going to be found out and cried out against...even things which some people would consider stupid or "grasping".

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None of which has anything to do with the topic, and is just the usual partisan whinefest.

On topic, there is no reason to assume he is drunk, and he offered an explanation which makes sense. There is no reason to disbelieve him, and since no one was hurt by what happened, it's a big nothing. Accusing some one of something, then saying "well, you might be lying" is politics at it's lowest.

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washunut said:

This is funny stuff. Is it real or some kind of spoof>

How did the folks on MSNBC miss this one.

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Redress said:

None of which has anything to do with the topic, and is just the usual partisan whinefest.

On topic, there is no reason to assume he is drunk, and he offered an explanation which makes sense. There is no reason to disbelieve him, and since no one was hurt by what happened, it's a big nothing. Accusing some one of something, then saying "well, you might be lying" is politics at it's lowest.

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:rofl :rofl :rofl

Sorry but being as he's a politician I find the bolded part rather funny. Do you honestly think that he wouldn't deny being drunk if he had been? And no it's not politics at it's lowest. Lying has become second nature to many politicians over the last few decades (at least). It is only natural that people doubt the word of a politician.

BTW, in case you hadn't noticed I have yet to say that he was drunk. I've already admitted that I do not know if he was or not as I was not there. But that doesn't mean that I'm automatically going to believe him when he says that he wasn't drunk.

As far as my list goes it was in response to your posts. I was showing why people might be "grasping" as you put it.

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Kal'Stang said:

:rofl :rofl :rofl

Sorry but being as he's a politician I find the bolded part rather funny. Do you honestly think that he wouldn't deny being drunk if he had been? And no it's not politics at it's lowest. Lying has become second nature to many politicians over the last few decades (at least). It is only natural that people doubt the word of a politician.

BTW, in case you hadn't noticed I have yet to say that he was drunk. I've already admitted that I do not know if he was or not as I was not there. But that doesn't mean that I'm automatically going to believe him when he says that he wasn't drunk.

As far as my list goes it was in response to your posts. I was showing why people might be "grasping" as you put it.

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Yes, it is politics at its lowest. There is noone present saying he was drunk. No Senator. No staffer. No janitor. No visitor. There is no news agency reporting he was drunk. He does not appear drunk in the video. Noone saw him drinking. There are no pictures of this liquid lunch being consumed. No one who witnessed it. Nooone who was present at it.

What you have is a partisan blogger making **** up, the target saying, hey, that's madeup bull****, then you saying, well OF COURSE he'd deny it.

I don't know if you could get any more 1984 than that.

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Kal'Stang said:

:rofl :rofl :rofl

Sorry but being as he's a politician I find the bolded part rather funny. Do you honestly think that he wouldn't deny being drunk if he had been? And no it's not politics at it's lowest. Lying has become second nature to many politicians over the last few decades (at least). It is only natural that people doubt the word of a politician.

BTW, in case you hadn't noticed I have yet to say that he was drunk. I've already admitted that I do not know if he was or not as I was not there. But that doesn't mean that I'm automatically going to believe him when he says that he wasn't drunk.

As far as my list goes it was in response to your posts. I was showing why people might be "grasping" as you put it.

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If I said "well, Kal'Stang might be a muslim terrorist", and when you denied it, I said "well, people on message boards lie about themselves all the time", you would be justified in calling me out for spreading unsubstantiated rumor. That is all this is. We have no reason to think he was drunk, his explanation makes sense, saying "he might be lying" serves no purpose.

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jackalope said:

Yes, it is politics at its lowest. There is noone present saying he was drunk. No Senator. No staffer. No janitor. No visitor. There is no news agency reporting he was drunk. He does not appear drunk in the video. Noone saw him drinking. There are no pictures of this liquid lunch being consumed. No one who witnessed it. Nooone who was present at it.

What you have is a partisan blogger making **** up, the target saying, hey, that's madeup bull****, then you saying, well OF COURSE he'd deny it.

I don't know if you could get any more 1984 than that.

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See you had to use other evidence in order to prove that he wasn't drunk. I'm talking about where he said that he wasn't. And only that. ALL that I have been saying is that we can't take his word alone about weather he was drunk or not.

Do you really deny that he wouldn't deny it even if it was true? If so I own the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge and I'd like to sell it to ya.

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Kal'Stang said:

See you had to use other evidence in order to prove that he wasn't drunk. I'm talking about where he said that he wasn't. And only that. ALL that I have been saying is that we can't take his word alone about weather he was drunk or not.

Do you really deny that he wouldn't deny it even if it was true? If so I own the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge and I'd like to sell it to ya.

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No, actually I watched the video and was puzzled beyond belief at the partisan gall that would impugn a person's character in such a way. Also, I presented no evidence for him NOT being drunk, I noted the utter and complete lack of evidence FOR claiming that he was drunk.

As to the question of would Max Baucus say he was drunk if he was drunk? Yea, he probably would. He had no problem admitting an affair with a woman he recommended to be US Attorney - which is actually damaging to him.

I may very well be in the wrong here. But I still see no problem with reminding people that our politicians do lie and that we can't always take them at their word.

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Redress said:

If I said "well, Kal'Stang might be a muslim terrorist", and when you denied it, I said "well, people on message boards lie about themselves all the time", you would be justified in calling me out for spreading unsubstantiated rumor. That is all this is. We have no reason to think he was drunk, his explanation makes sense, saying "he might be lying" serves no purpose.

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Maybe he was just having a stroke.

All senators should be required to be drunk before doing any senate business. I think it would liven up the political climate in the US considerably.

I think the entire Congress should be limited to 30 days in session per year, except for in time of war; and then only for war associated legislation.