Senator Max Baucus Drunk / Intoxicated on Senate Floor

[Pony Boy]

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[Garcia Bronco]

Omg...lol

[Bronx33]

I suspect 8 manhattens.

[Dukes]

As drunk as he was, he does make a good point. It would have been nice to see the Republicans at least draft their own health bill. We all know Pelosi, Reed and Obama would have shreded it, but it would have made them look better than just doing nothing.

[Bronx33]

As drunk as he was, he does make a good point. It would have been nice to see the Republicans at least draft their own health bill. We all know Pelosi, Reed and Obama would have shreded it, but it would have made them look better than just doing nothing.

Well he talks about bi partisonship now where was that offer months ago when they were behind closed doors deciding our future?

[Taco John]

As drunk as he was, he does make a good point. It would have been nice to see the Republicans at least draft their own health bill. We all know Pelosi, Reed and Obama would have shreded it, but it would have made them look better than just doing nothing.


They did draft something. It got rejected. Their efforts were better focused on defeating this bad peice of legislation than trying to compromise their way through another bad piece of legislation that would have their finger prints all over it.

They're taking a political gamble that this thing will be a miserable failure, and that the people will look at this bill as the Democrats strong arming the American public to deliver customers to the insurance industries, and move instead to vote for them and maybe even free market solutions that don't involve government and industry conspiring to make themselves rich and powerful.

[Dukes]

Well he talks about bi partisonship now where was that offer months ago when they were behind closed doors deciding our future?

Congress trumps bipartisanship like it means something, we all know it's BS.

[TexanBob]

Sen. Bacchus is now denying he was drunk but is not claiming he behaved this way due to anything else (fatigue, medication, etc.). Through a spokesman, he called the C-Span excerpt a "vicious smear". Yes, that right-wing attack machine that is C-Span made up the whole thing.

Any cries that the Republicans refused to help ring hollow because we've all seen how the Democrats shut out Republicans from all their conferences and meetings, so they've been structurally shut out of the process from the get-go and everyone in Washington knows this. But, for the sake of argument, what were to happen if a Republican had worked to get some part of the bill passed and if - miracle of miracles - enough Democrats agreed to pass it. I guarantee it would be the first thing stripped out during the conference committee with the House, making that Republican look like an idiot for going along with the sham.

Two things you MUST realize: 1) If the health care bill was so great, Democrats wouldn't be whining about a lack of bi-partisanship. Instead, they'd be taking all the credit. 2) The Republicans never had the votes to stop this so wasting time by blaming Republicans AT ALL shows you that even the Dems know this bill is a disaster and yet the only fingerprints on it are Democrat fingerprints.

[Fedaykin]

They did draft something. It got rejected. Their efforts were better focused on defeating this bad peice of legislation than trying to compromise their way through another bad piece of legislation that would have their finger prints all over it.

So, you endorse the 'CYA first and foremost' method of governance?

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Sen. Bacchus is now denying he was drunk but is not claiming he behaved this way due to anything else (fatigue, medication, etc.). Through a spokesman, he called the C-Span excerpt a "vicious smear". Yes, that right-wing attack machine that is C-Span made up the whole thing.

I don't get it - why do you suddenly have a problem with drunks in public office?

Any cries that the Republicans refused to help ring hollow because we've all seen how the Democrats shut out Republicans from all their conferences and meetings....

Ha ha ha!

Pot/kettle/blackism of the year! Hilarious!

[epicSocialism4tw]

Ha!

This cat is toast.

[Bronx33]

I don't get it - why do you suddenly have a problem with drunks in public office?



Ha ha ha!

Pot/kettle/blackism of the year! Hilarious!


Do you even have a point?

[Spider]

after dealing with bedwetting republicans all day , it is surprising more people in congress are not drunks