“You’re Not Gonna Get Re-elected!”

“Bizarre Baucus behavior on Senate floor ignored by MSM,” reports Newsbusters.org:

How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant. In any event, if a conservative such as Jim DeMint or Jeff Sessions had acted this way in the Senate, the mainstream media would have featured the video over and over and over again. Instead, since this was Democrat Max Baucus, this video was almost completely ignored by the MSM.

On his Facebook page, former Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) commented:

“This is the senator that hired his staffer and then took her on trips … and divorced his wife … and they had me run out of town.”

Well, with any luck, Senator Bacchus will be one of many getting run out on a rail in the not-to-distant future. (Unfortunately, he’s not up for re-election until 2014, which may be why he thinks he can say and do anything without paying the consequences.) Another that needs to go is Chris Dodd (D-CT) who just returned home “in triumph”. While being interviewed on his “historic vote” to reform health care, a constituent heckled him with “You’re not gonna get re-elected!” Democrats are already avoiding town hall meetings; apparently the next step is to avoid any and every other location where they might actually have to hear common citizens speak their minds…