Thread: Politicians like Max Baucus Give Alcoholics Bad Name

Every time a politician gets in trouble these days, he immediately pleads alcoholism and or drug addiction, enters a rehabilitation center, prays to God and family for forgiveness

Politicians like Max Baucus Give Alcoholics Bad Name

By John Lillpop
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Satire

Are you unable to comprehend just how ObamaCare managed to squeak through the Senate, that august body of deep thinkers and sober reflectors?

A clue may in the offing in the youtube.com video which shows Democrat Max Baucus apparently snockered to the gills while extolling the virtues of commie health care on the floor of the Senate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA

What a pity that the good Senator will have no recollection whatsoever of this impassioned plea. Unless, that is, we send him about one million e-mails with said youtube dilly attached.

The Baucus fiasco brings up a pet peeve of mine. Namely, why is it that every time a politician gets in trouble these days, he immediately pleads alcoholism and or drug addiction, enters a rehabilitation center, prays to God and family for forgiveness, and demands to be coddled like a helpless baby for years to come?

Although Baucus has not played the alcoholic card yet, he surely will, soon enough. He may even use his addiction to booze as an excuse when ObamaCare explodes into chaos, which should be sometime before the State of the Union.

Baucus’ case brings up a pressing question for the times: Where are all the honorable miscreants, the tough guys who quit drinking and using only when forced to as a result of slipping into in a substance-induced coma or blackout.

I am speaking of the salt of the earth types who think that “12-stepsâ€

Drunk with power? Baucus slurs on Senate floor

By P.J. Gladnick
December 27, 2009 - 13:47 ET

How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant. In any event, if a conservative such as Jim DeMint or Jeff Sessions had acted this way in the Senate, the mainstream media would have featured the video over and over and over again. Instead, since this was Democrat Max Baucus, this video was almost completely ignored by the MSM.

Since the MSM has provided no information on the Baucus performance, your humble correspondent has searched the blogosphere for answers. Here is an observation from Susan Flowers at Examiner.Com:

Is this acceptable, NO. Is this behavior and lack of leadership acceptable to U.S. Citizens who are paying his salary?

Have all rules established over hundreds of years being thrown out and disregarded by the Democrat party? He should be brought before his peers and punished, if they don't, should Voters, as employers, write him up for inappropriate behavior and disorderly conduct?

Americans are paying taxes to support his career. If you disapprove, call and write the other Senators and request he be charged with disorderly conduct. No one in the Congress or Senate should be allowed to be intoxicated when officially representing the Citizens of the USA.

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Ease up, Susan. Perhaps Baucus, in the spirit (or spirits) of the season, was simply full of good Christmas cheer (hic!).

Brendan Calling weighs in:

Now, i have no proof Baucus is s--tfaced on expensive bourbon. I wasn’t there, I didn’t smell his breath, and I doubt he took a breathalyzer.

But just watch that performance and tell me that Baucus doesn’t look and sound like he’s polished off a couple of pints of Old Granddad. And not just his voice: the guy seems to be having trouble standing up straight. look at him reel around like the Tin Man’s dance scene in The Wizard of Oz.

We're Off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

Hey, Max! Could you hand me a pint of Old Granddad. I want whatever you're having. I wanna have fun too!!!

And, finally, Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit answers Max's question about where the courage is:

WHERE IS THE COURAGE? I think we’ve found the liquid courage, anyway.

Is that Chuck Schumer at stage left trying to get a long hook around Baucus to drag him off the scene?

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladni ... gnored-msm

Senator Max Baucus Drunk / Intoxicated on Senate Floor - Shouts Down Wicker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5gg ... r_embedded

Drunk... That is a disgrace, fire his sorry butt. If it were you or I, we'd be fired immediately.

Originally Posted by DearsisterAnise

Drunk... That is a disgrace, fire his sorry butt. If it were you or I, we'd be fired immediately.

Be thankful he's not a truck driver! Although his harm would be more local instead of the sweeping damage he's done.

Well Golly....what have I been saying about this idiot moron..and the stuff he's been on, for weeks now.

Kathyet

Baucus is an original member of the gang of six that spent the summer writing their version of the bill.
Iremember reading an article that said Baucus got the most money (campaign donations or Bribes) from the lobbyists representing the pharmacy and insurance company. sad thing is, the other five members were in the top ten of moneys given by these same lobbyists.

Is it no wonder that cost to the american consumer is not addressed in this bill??

Kathyet wrote,

Well Golly....what have I been saying about this idiot moron..and the stuff he's been on, for weeks now.

Having read your posts about his behavior, I could not have agreed more. I only listened to the debates on CSPAN and could not help but wonder what was going on with this man's mental faculties. I could hear it in his voice. It was real bad when the Constitutional inquiries were raised and his response, I thought the man speaking was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It was perplexing to say the least. A bit scary, as that is not the tone one expects from such a position. I did not realize that he has a drinking problem.

Would testimony from some one inebriated be accepted in a court of law? This Senator is voting on legislation?

Thanks for the youtube link Airborn. It was apparent that he was smashed! I can see it now. Just listening sounded like a nervous breakdown as the pressures were mounting and perhaps he knew that this bill was indeed a great infringement on the Constitution.

Hisory,..hic, has, up.... bin recarded.

Translated to straight speak,

History has been recorded.

Alan Colmes just said on his radio show that this is the way Baucus always speaks!