Video: Author of Senate ObamaCare bill delivers … interesting floor speech

posted at 6:20 pm on December 27, 2009 by Allahpundit

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.

A perfect 10: “Well, I guess this explains why they think the bill will be good for the economy.” You’re welcome, Jay Leno.

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A sixth of our economy has been in this man’s hands for months? They’re voting on it at 1:00 in the morning after the bars close? And, we are supposed to be happy about this plan?

This is one too many living tributes to Teddy. The whole country should shudder in fear of these maniacs and kick the bums out!

joedoe on December 28, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Has a single MSM TV station had the guts to ask Senator Max B. just what the hell he was thinking and drinking? Even one?

Oh, that’s right, we don’t ask Dems what they think they are doing. It wouldn’t be “going with the program” or supporting their “beloved leader” or believing in hope or sound accounting practices or or or…

TBenton on December 28, 2009 at 11:44 AM

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Finally I see how Senator Baucus can find his girlfriend attractive enough for some “senatorial” action. It looks like a 10 tequila shot preparation for a big post speech date!
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Although to be fair to the Senator–Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, et. al seemed just as crazy 24/7/365. No wonder they think that ObamaCare will help us all to a better life.
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John Bibb
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rocketman on December 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM

He’ll be at the top of the liver list. You can bet that.

johnnyU on December 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Senator Bacchus

maverick muse on December 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM

I guess he’s Ted’s replacement. LOL.

johnnyU on December 28, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Liberalism.

Mental.

Disease.

That is all

angryed on December 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM

‘ I’ll tell anyone of you bassards, ya wann bandaids? I got bandaids. I got me two boxes of bandaids, ya bassards. I’ll tall ya another thing, ya bassards, there needs to be a tax of mecurachrome. Yep. Right now. Tax it. Go ahead ya bassards. Tax my mecurachrome and my damn bannaids. I’ll kick all your asses, ya bassards. C’mon. all of ya. Come on. I’m standin right here. Ya wanna fight? C’mon

johnnyU on December 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM

The height up arrogance. Up yours America!

HadithHarry on December 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM

Sorry, the height “of” arrogance.

(The “up yours” still stands).

HadithHarry on December 28, 2009 at 12:18 PM

dhunter @11:04
I believe the guy who put the sheet of paper on the lectern may have been trying to tell Bacchus to shut up. Never works with a drunk on a tirade

elclynn on December 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM

Seems to be swaying a bit. I’d arrest him if he was driving. Too bad, driving us into the ground doesn’t qualify.

Great.

archer52 on December 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM

What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got?

Shivas Irons on December 28, 2009 at 12:35 PM

thats just great, the fate of this country is in the hands of drunk pieces of shit like this. just great

sidewinder22 on December 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM

the GOP did NOT lay a serious alternative plan on the table until Paul Ryan’s House bill late in the game. The Senate GOP never offered any plan at all.

PD Quig on December 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM

You claim to hate “big government conservatism” and you agree with Bacchus in berating the GOP for opposing the Dems power grab of our health care? I’ve encountered too many mobys to believe that.

The GOP bills could not go anywhere while they are in a small minority. Ryan’s bill was enough to show where the GOP wanted to go, introducing one for the Senate would have been pointless.

Hey, what’s the difference between a drunk and an alcoholic? A drunk doesn’t have to go to all those meetings. Bacchus is definitely a drunk.

theCork on December 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM

elclynn on December 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM

I thought perhaps the same but thats’ not my point.

The point is why would not someone, a Republican, confront the drunk. To uphold the supposed honor of the Senate this should not be allowed!
Aren’t there rules against drunkeness in the chamber?

Make a point of it on C-Span! A big enough confrontation that the MSM cannot ignore it!

Seems only freshman Joe Wilson has any balls thus ALL the good old, back scratchin, Boys need to be GONE!
All of em that did not say a word!

What if this happened in say church or a theater? I guarantee someone would have told the idiot to shut up.
I would!

dhunter on December 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM

OT for AP–someone is asleep at the wheel–The Other McCain has a tip from Newsbusters about Andrea Mitchell comparing Palin to George Wallace…

Mitchell Hails Success of ‘Obama Doctrine,’ Palin’s Wallace-Like Appeal ‘Does Frighten Me’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/12/27/mitchell-hails-success-obama-doctrine-palins-wallace-appeal-does-fright

lovingmyUSA on December 28, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Like any good progressive, I’ve gone from admiration to hope to disappointment to anger when it comes to this president. Now I’m fast getting to rage. How much rage? I find myself thinking that the thing I want most from the 2010 elections is for his party to get absolutely clobbered, even if that means a repeat of 1994. And that what I most want from 2012 is for him to be utterly humiliated, even if that means President Palin at the helm. That much rage.

LOL

J_Crater on December 28, 2009 at 1:05 PM

This speach sounds a lot like the one delivered by Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles.

Authentic frontier jibberish!

Maybe that is why he wanted that frontier state kickback in the healthcare bill.

Freddy on December 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM

He does a great impression of the late Foster Brooks!!!

Seriously, I do not understand why the Dems continue to state that there were no solutions or any input from the Repubs on healthcare options! That’s obviously a lie, but our pantywaist RNC and GOP leaders are chickensh_t!!

ultracon on December 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM

He seems drunk to me. I don’t jump to that conclusion based on one slur. That happens sometimes.

But this one struck me right away as “drunk rant.”

AnninCA on December 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM

The Other McCain has a tip from Newsbusters about Andrea Mitchell comparing Palin to George Wallace…

I saw that discussion. I found it fascinating.

AnninCA on December 28, 2009 at 2:01 PM

He isn’t drumk … he’s just talking stupid.

kregg on December 28, 2009 at 2:01 PM

Shivas Irons on December 28, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Courage?

You can say that again!

ya2daup on December 28, 2009 at 2:55 PM

The GOP bills could not go anywhere while they are in a small minority. Ryan’s bill was enough to show where the GOP wanted to go, introducing one for the Senate would have been pointless.

That’s why I believe Paul Ryan will be the presidential candidate or the VP candidate in 2012.

NathanG on December 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM

Sometimes diabetics can appear to be drunk if their blood sugar drops very low. That being said, Backass is quite simply inebriated.

red131 on December 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM

You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.

Buttercup on December 28, 2009 at 4:17 PM

“Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”
–Thomas Paine

Rae on December 28, 2009 at 4:44 PM

You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.

Buttercup on December 28, 2009 at 4:17 PM

Heh. I’ll bet that’s what the note said that someone put on the podium in front of him — at 4:34 – 4:35!

Trochilus on December 28, 2009 at 5:54 PM

. . .
But this one struck me right away as “drunk rant.”

AnninCA on December 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Agreed! (Gotta strike when the iron is hot, since it happens so infrequently!)

Also, good thing there’s no smoking allowed on the Senate floor . . . poor Mad Max‘s mouth might have lit up like Abdulmutallab’s crotch!

Trochilus on December 28, 2009 at 6:18 PM

I think Mr. Baucus should have ended his speech by projectile vomiting, then groping the nearest female senator. Oh, and then he could top it off by getting in his car and smashing it up into someone else’s, maybe wipe out a family of five or something. Hey, he’s a senator. What would they do to him, put him in jail? LOL, like that would happen.

R. Waher on December 28, 2009 at 7:44 PM

NathanG on December 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM

I think he wants to be the speaker of the house instead.

Gracelynn on December 28, 2009 at 8:04 PM

Amazing how the party in the majority continues to be the “victim”. That courage he keeps calling for seems to come from a bottle……

sMack on December 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM

You claim to hate “big government conservatism” and you agree with Bacchus in berating the GOP for opposing the Dems power grab of our health care?

Look. I AGREE that the Dems bill is a statist disaster (again, go back and read what I actually wrote–which is somehow not what you read). I’m also fine with a few potshots at a proven jerk making a fool of himself on the floor of the Senate. What I am not fine with in the past ten years was the way the GOP became all too acculturated to Washington DC.

I also agreed with the Ryan approach. My point was that the GOP left this issue unaddressed for the better part of a decade. Then in 2009, they let the Dems set the agenda instead of being prepared to offer on day one a solution that rejected the premises of the Dems disastrous approach.

What is so hard to understand here? This country is hanging by a thread because if this POS gets into law it will NEVER get repealed. And we will forever by arguing about how to better ration care or whom to tax yet again. The nanny state at the federal level will explode to regulate all manner of individual behavior under the guise of health care cost control.

And all because the GOP missed the significance of this bill until the jam down had already reached our stomachs. My point is that the GOP plays small ball, while the Dems play for keeps. If they don’t get their sh*t together (with Michael Steele? God help them), the GOP tombstone will read: “We thought they would play fair”

PD Quig on December 28, 2009 at 11:26 PM

Max Baucus: “Okkkkhaayy, ever time shomone shays ‘un…un…un…unprrrecented’ or ‘hi…hi…hissshtorrric’, ya’ gotta do a shhhhhhot.”

Dopenstrange on December 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM

Poster child for the term, “Drunk with power”.

MSGTAS on December 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Politico has a statement:

UPDATE: A spokesman for Baucus released the following statement: “When his friend of 30 years Ted Kennedy, with whom he had fought so hard to provide health care to children, was being used as a cheap foil to oppose health care reform, Senator Baucus gave a passionate defense. Unfortunately, those who want to kill any meaningful reform, turned it into an unfounded, untrue personal smear internet rumor. This is beyond the pale and this type of gutter politics has no place in the public sphere. It is this type of slander that makes Montanans, and Americans, disgusted with the politics as usual in Washington. And what is even more sad is that such a personal attack would be given any validity at all, let alone being elevated to the status of ‘news’.”

This is the first time I have ever heard videotape labelled a “rumor”.

Chris_Balsz on December 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM

Sen. Ted Kennedy has just celebrated his fourth consecutive month of sobriety!

Sen. Baucus should follow Ted’s fine example.

joe btfsplk on December 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Thank you senator fo oo ster bu bu brooksssh. Have another shot of gin. It’s nice to know that someone has stepped up to the plate in teds absence

chicken thief on December 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM

Can’t the people of Montana find somebody who doesn’t mumble?

Axeman on December 29, 2009 at 3:11 PM

The FACT of the matter is that this “Senator”, Maximum Bacchus, is so obviously drunk that no amount of spin can convince anyone who is conscious otherwise. This is a Leading Democrat. Senator Bacchus has no shame, and his flunky, instead of attempting to cover for his illustious boss, ought to be running for the hills. For SHAME. What a freaking joke.

masterofelke on December 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM

This speach sounds a lot like the one delivered by Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles.

Authentic frontier jibberish!

Maybe that is why he wanted that frontier state kickback in the healthcare bill.

Freddy on December 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM

Con-found-it!

johnnyU on December 30, 2009 at 8:53 AM

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