Sen. Max Baucus appears drunk on Senate floor

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by TheSmurfs22

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I do think we need term limits and I say this with a family member in Congress. Some of these guys get so entrenched in the bubble that is DC they forget what is really go on beyond Capitol Hill.

thats a real good point i hear time and again from people who have worked or been a part of the hill.

as to the video, is it just his kinda slurred rambling speech that make people think he is drunk? is there more too it? im at work and cut off the video after 2 mins.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

thats a real good point i hear time and again from people who have worked or been a part of the hill.

as to the video, is it just his kinda slurred rambling speech that make people think he is drunk? is there more too it? im at work and cut off the video after 2 mins.

Yes,
This actually happened on christmas night after evryone had gone home and someone forgot to turn off the lights and camera. He had drank a fith earlier in the day and passed out in his office and woke up latter that night. Still smashed and forgetting that Pribe Care passed he got mad and wanted to speak his mind so he took the floor. As you can see the room is empty but he is still talking as if the room was full and he even point over to where he thinks the rep. are still sitting. This went on for several hours until a janitor turned off the lights and drove him home.

[firstdown]

This actually happened on christmas night after evryone had gone home and someone forgot to turn off the lights and camera. He had drank a fith earlier in the day and passed out in his office and woke up latter that night. Still smashed and forgetting that Pribe Care passed he got mad and wanted to speak his mind so he took the floor. As you can see the room is empty but he is still talking as if the room was full and he even point over to where he thinks the rep. are still sitting. This went on for several hours until a janitor turned off the lights and drove him home.

[dmek25]

look at the questionnaire. see how those questions are phrased

[joethiesmanfan]

Liberal Mainstream Media , the mother of all conspiracy theories. You mean to tell me the milllions of people who work in the media are all aligned to a single point of view and scheme to deny any other voices?

[firstdown]

F all them in Washington on both sides.

[The Goat]

Baucus isn't drunk here. He's a tool DINO (Democrat in Name Only) and slave to the health insurance lobby like over half of our senators. But anyway he's a horrible, horrible speaker, not comfortable at all on camera or in front of a crowd. This is basically the way he speaks although he's obviously exhausted.

The funny thing is for a very long time he was the "eloquent" senator for mont. Conrad Burns sounded mentally retarded every time he opened his mouth. In his losing bid for reelection I went to a live debate and heard people constantly asking each other what he said because he just spoke nonsense.

[djnemo65]

FRPLG, what do you think of the idea of restricting national elections to public funding only? Ban all contributions and disperse matching federal funds to whichever candidate each party selects. Not only is this not going to happen, it would probably require a constitutional amendment were it to actually gain any momentum in the future. Nevertheless, that's the only solution I can come up with to fix a system with problems as endemic as ours.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

FRPLG, what do you think of the idea of restricting national elections to public funding only? Ban all contributions and disperse matching federal funds to whichever candidate each party selects. Not only is this not going to happen, it would probably require a constitutional amendment were it to actually gain any momentum in the future. Nevertheless, that's the only solution I can come up with to fix a system with problems as endemic as ours.

I think it another magic unicorn unless it is exactly how you describe. They'll figure ways around it unless it is made law that they get no money except from the one very administered source. But then how do you stop service contributions? Or the Parties doing all the campaigning? Sounds like alogistical nightmare but at this point it can't be wrose I guess. If you can't tell I am very "the system is broken" type. I have less of a problem with individual politicians than I do with the system in general. There's a reason no one else in the world has our form of government. I have very little confidence that the two party system can "succeed" in the way that most Americans envision their gov't working.

[Hog1]

Viva la revolucion'

[tryfuhl]

"Democrats never do anything proactive, they just whine..."

Well here you have the opposite; I'm mostly conservative in my views but a lot of people that vote Republican make us look like wackjobs and are extremely hypocritical. Social programs aren't necessarily a bad thing, it's the lack of oversight; we're not going to become the USSR reincarnate.

[firstdown]

Stop begging. You know only a drunk does not sound drunk to another drunk.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Stop begging. You know only a drunk does not sound drunk to another drunk.

The only time I know I'm drunk is when I start accidently breaking shit in people's houses. That's when I know it's time to stop. Otherwise... I'm not drunk.

[FRPLG]

So here's the question. Is it better to sound drunk all the time or get caught once giving a speech drunk? Talk about two evils.

[Monkeydad]

The memory of Ted Kennedy lives on...