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The problem is that there is no evidence of Sen. Baucus being drunk other than the video itself, and the thing is that Baucus has a tendency to mumble (as Dave Weigel noted). I've seen him speak throughout the year over the course of the health care debate and was familiar with his speech pattern, so I didn't think anything of it when I watched the video, and was surprised to see it gain so much attention. I just saw it as a Drudge-generated controversy on a slow news week. True, I have no way to prove that he wasn't drunk, and you can draw your own conclusions from the video. For me, it just isn't conclusive enough.

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Paul McGrath| 12.30.09 @ 10:50AM

If Senator Baucus wasn't drunk, then he is an inarticulate, ranting buffoon when sober, which is about ten times worse.

Tim| 12.30.09 @ 11:11AM

Maybe the ghost of Ted Kennedy visited him on Christmas Eve.

bham| 12.30.09 @ 12:00PM

Hard to tell if he was inebriated or not. Tom Brokaw always sounded drunk to me. The story reminded me of the old joke about not knowing somebody drank until they met him sober. Regardless, it isn't anything "significant" until the MSM say so.

Oldefarte| 12.30.09 @ 1:08PM

Baucus probably wasn't DRUNK, maybe just exhausted from STUPIDLY fabricating this piece of EXCREMENT termed healthcare legislation!!!!

democratsarefascists| 12.30.09 @ 1:31PM

Since I've seen Baucus falling down drunk on more than one occasion, I regret that I can't allow anyone to spin this his way.

Max Baucus has a drinking problem.

Shannon| 12.31.09 @ 1:48AM

The lech has a womanizing problem, too; on the taxpayer's dime. The clown's a democrat, why wouldn't he be thoroughly corrupt?

Eric Dondero| 12.31.09 @ 12:57PM

Phillip, I'm real dissapointed in you. Not for your spinning for Baucus, but rather worse, you're spinning for that Soros-funded fake "libertarian" Democrat Party lackey Dave Weigel. If this guy wasn't a plant on the Right (through his two years spent at Reason Magazine), I'll eat my hat.