The issue of
Max Baucus not drunk on Senate Floor is turning into a war of words pitting "Max Baucus not drunk on Senate Floor" forces versus "
Max Baucus drunk on Senate Floor" believers.
Senator Max Baucus (D - Montana) had launched a spirited debate against Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker on Heath Care Reform. In the process, his tired, angry, articulate tirade was such that online Conservatives activists elected to make a charge that Max Baucus was drunk.
The fact is that Max Baucus was not drunk and correct in his attack against Republicans who did not break ranks to join Democrats in backing Health Care Reform.
Rightpundits explains that Baucus' "core argument is that those who oppose healthcare reform are somehow lacking courage.."
Baucus is right for a very basic reason.
We've had the same Health Care System for 60 years and over 30 million Americans are without insurance. It, by nature of what it takes to mount a change to a culture takes courage to do so.
We have line after line of scores of Americans who line up in support of Heath Care Reform because we need a better system. The Republicans have only opposed what Democrats have developed and not came up with a better system themselves. In this the Republicans are not only the "Party of no" but the "Party of lazy".
It takes significant brain work to really sit down and crunch the numbers, craft the legislation, and think about and simulate its impact, then go back to the drawing board. There's just no evidence that the Republican Party has done that.
Every time Republicans are in power, nothing is done to significantly improve and change the Health Care System so we don't have the access problem.
Nothing.
So Max Baucus was right. It does take courage to support change. And Max Baucus wasn't drunk.
