Baucus shouts down Wicker on health care

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

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Or as the Rude Pundit says:

"Drunk Max Baucus is kind of awesome"

Check out the video of Montana's Max Baucus losing his shit at Republican Roger Wicker of Mississippi over the destructive obstructionism of Republicans. Baucus is a man who spent way too much fucking time in a small room, smelling Chuck Grassley's corn farts, and while the Rude Pundit has absolutely no proof that Baucus is drunk while making this speech, Baucus is drunk while making this speech. Watch it and see the self-loathing of the corrupted soul on display, the lashing out of someone compromised and debased by the very forces he encouraged, the desire for some kind of redemption, all from inside a bottle of Scotch....

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2009/12/few-random-thoughts-regarding-tone-of.html

[dflprincess]

1. He's calling the Republicans "destructive"?

Pot - meet kettle.

[FarLeftFist]

2. No, seriously, he's drunk.

[rhett o rick]

7. That was my thought also. Cant blame him. Get drunk and trash the other side. nt

[davidhilton]

21. thats what i thought too.

[lumpy]

22. Yes, he's drunk as the proverbial skunk.

godamighty!

[Hulk]

3. Sit down and shut up....please.

What a bumbling idiot. If he isn't drunk....his manner sure matches that of a drunk.

Montana...give us something a little more polished than this shill. Jeeeesh.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Drunk as a skunk. I guess he had to get his courage from a bottle...and then he was able to stand

up and tell the truth. He is surely one pissed off drunk man.


The rest of that column is great....read the entire thing.

[Overseas]

19. Great column. Yes he sure looks like he needed a big swig

to pretend it was all those other guys who destroyed the bill.

[47of74]

5. Bipartisan probably to a fault?

No shit Sherlock.

[hmorehead]

6. Absolutely bi-partisan to a fault. Look at the whacked to pieces

bullshit health plan we bi-partisaned ourselves into. Kill the bill.

[la la]

8. more drunk than a skunk and

almost as drunk as a shithouse rat!

either that or he just had a stroke...no disrespect to stroke victims, my husband is one---but......geeze

[Detroit Progressive]

9. LOL!

It would be so much fun to be smashed, get on a mic, and trash repukes and right wingers! Baucus should have got smashed when he was having negotiations in the Finance Committee. Maybe then we would have got a real public option or Medicare buy-in. I do not condone alcohol abuse, but I'll take the drunk Baucus over the sober one any day!

[destes]

12. What a concept.

If we want our leaders to do what we elected them for, just add alcohol.

[quark219]

10. Hoooooly crap, he is smashed! N/T

[lamp_shade]

11. I'd venture to guess that none of you even knows who he is... is... is... is... is... is...

[TheEuclideanOne]

13. Holy Crap, it's Gabby Johnson!!!! (from Blazing Saddles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70iNkQA8YU4&feature=player_embedded#

[mascarax]

15. Oh, thank you! We had fun watching Baucus & Gabby back-to-back...

And after watching both, we agreed we need to buy "Blazing Saddles". Haven't seen it for years.

As for Baucus...

[BEZERKO]

18. 'Now who can argue with that!'

[BrklynLiberal]

25. Absolutely perfect! THANK YOU!!!

I could watch that movie over and over and over. It is beyond classic.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[theFrankFactor]

14. Anyone Know How That Shithead Got His Position on the Committee?

The fact this turd eater has his position points to the absolute FUCKEDNESS oof the Congressional Democratic power structure. FUCK HIM and FUCK THEM! Merry Fuckin' Christmas!

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Aren't those positions based on seniority?

[RBInMaine]

16. THANK YOU MAX BAUCUS ! Spot on target ! And to those trashing him, SHAME ON YOU !

SHAME on those here trashing Baucus out of ultra-ideological Jane Hamsher-esque non-reality. Plenty of us on this board are getting damn sick and tired of it! This guy Baucus is just saying he and others tried to work with the RePUKES (and there was nothing wrong with trying - that is called governing in the real world), and yet our of politics the PUKES went away and refused to work with them. He is doing the right thing and calling them on it good and hard. Good Baucus. Good for you. -- Most of us are not thrilled with the bill, but we are also realists who took civics and history and know that governing is about compromise. The whole nation is founded on it. From emancipation to social security to the GI Bill to Medicare, you can find PLENTY of flaws. But we did them and worked to improve them over time. With all there is to attack the RePUKES on, it is shameful that he Hamsher/Huffington/Nader types are so unwilling to see reality they are now even trashing Bernie Sanders. Utterly astounding. Yes, it is a very imperfect bill. And it is a very imperfect government. And a very imperfect planet we live on. But you don't clench your fists and pound on a table like a spoiled child when you don't get all you want in this world. You get the best you can given the complex of variables, and you then work to build on it down the road. Like it or not, moderate Indys determine national elections. Ultra-left non-compromisers are as far out of political reality as the crazy right wing TeaBaggers, notwithstanding their good intentions. But they need to get real. Neither Kucinich nor Nader will ever be president, this health bill WILL pass, and Obama and Dems will be REWARDED for it.
Mainstream America wants action and problems solved, NOT gridlock either from the far right or far left.

[Hulk]

17. No shame here....

What Baucus was mumbling about, in his drunken manner, may in fact be quite true. Might even have been a little better received if it had NOT been from this ass hat.

The points made above are all quite on target, from my perspective. I think most of us are quite willing for compromise in Congress. Agreed, he was pointing out that the lack of participation on the other side of the aisle, and the absolute obstructionism was apparent for all to see. What, I believe, most of us are saying here is that Baucus did a shitty job of chairing the committee, and he sounded and even acted a bit drunk when doing his "scolding act" to the repukes...who were probably not even in session to hear his "brave remarks". The guy looks and sounds like a drunk. That's all.

[rateyes]

20. No "probably" about it, you worthless

piece of shit. You didn't even allow single-payer advocates at your precious table. Where is the bipartisanship in that?

Go away, you drunken bastard.

[libodem]

23. Opps

Our guy is sounding a bit like the fellow with the orange spray-on tan.

[hmorehead]

26. Baucus is as big a jerk as any of the neo-cons, he just moved to the center to save his ass.

[Juche]

27. If he came to his senses, great

What bothers me is that Baucus has been in the senate for 30 years. Did he just figure out that the GOP has no national interest and is motivated primarily by a desire to win elections, even if they have to destroy the nation and the people in it to do so?

Why didn't he figure that out during the Gingrich years of the 1990s (impeachment, shutting down the government, etc)? Why is this a surprise to him? I've only been following politics for a few years and I already knew the GOP had no interest in legislation that might help the American people. If anything, they are going to fight like hell to block legislation that helps Americans by expanding the public sector. The reason is that if it does help the people, it will help the democrats in elections and it will revive the concept of a welfare state. The GOP isn't going to nullify their ideology w/o a fight.

Why is he only figuring this out now? Why didn't he know this before his committee worked on health care? Where has he been?