Buyers' remorse from Baucus?

Heard some talk about Max Baucus making a fool of himself on the floor of the senate. At first, I thought they were just talking about the socialized medicine bill. Then I heard there's a video of it at YouTube. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byjtWkE2PY

So apparently Baucus made a fool himself on the floor of the senate by sponsoring the socialized medicine bill, and then he went out and got drunk.

I find his rant interesting. Apparently he understands that the socialized medicine bill totally sucks, and somehow he's trying to blame it on the Republicans.

I didn't think Baucus was up for re-election next year, and here he's already laying the groundwork for the Democrats' certain failure. I mean, failure that even Baucus, as a Democrat, can predict very easily.

The Republicans did not contribute to that bill at all. But when Baucus claims the Republicans didn't "contribute," what he seems to mean is that they wouldn't vote for it. The Republicans offered at least a dozen proposals. The ones that were actually discussed during the (very limited) amendment process were shot down. Grassley backed out because he listened to his constituents. The Democrats ignored their constituents and shoved the bill through only with heavy applications of bribery and extortion.

So what the hell? I mean, who does Baucus think he's kidding? It's his and the Democrats' bill. They are the sole proprietors. The Republicans had nothing to do with it. The Republicans just stood on the shore and watched the Democrat machine sink slowly into the murky depths of socialist oblivion to please their Comrade in the White House.

Perhaps Baucus had a moment to step back, consider the crummy and despicable process by which this bill was created, and now has enough decency left to be ashamed. Or... somehow I doubt that. Maybe he just watched "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" over the weekend and wants to wrap his own humble and non-thinking bow to the White House in a cloak of righteousness.

In any case, blaming someone else for your own inadequacies and shortcomings is getting to be the hallmark of the Democrats. It seems the Comrade hinted today that that silly person who set his pants on fire on the plane heading into Detroit was -- somehow -- all George Bush's fault. Oh well, better than Janet Napolitano's insistence that things like this only prove that the security system is working.

No matter what anyone thinks about George Bush, I don't recall him ever once saying that 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina were all because of Bill Clinton. Although the 9/11 Commission did suggest that fairly strongly. For that reason alone, I'd happily vote for George again. He isn't a whiner.

Yes, those prisoners from Guantanamo who were released to Yemen apparently are still doing all they can to destroy the US. And it was the Bush administration that released them.

On the other hand, the Comrade and his people have been laboring night and day trying to find some excuse to release even more prisoners from Guantanamo to Yemen or to any other place that would have them. So, hey, do you suppose this might be what the Comrade would call "a teachable moment"? I mean, do you think he might actually learn something?

Nah. Probably not.