When your name is in almost every newspaper and on most websites across the world for recommending your mistress for U.S. Attorney, giving her a large pay raise, having her help plan your divorce, and taking her on junkets, what’s a U.S. Senator to do?

If you’re Max Baucus, you fire off a press release trying to divert attention away from the bad and concentrating on the good things that you can claim you have done for your state– like telling Montanans that the Gitmo detainees are not coming to Montana.  

Whoopee!!

They are going to Illinois – the land of Lincoln!  Supposedly the prison is close to the Mississippi River – a perfect escape route.  Whew.  Just 150 miles from Chicago.  The winters are brutal there.  If I were a detainee, I’d want to stay in Cuba.

Then Baucus tells us that by sending them to Illinois the Obama Administration made “the right call.”

NIMBY.

Then you throw in a line that your number one job is to, “keep Montanans safe” like he’s saying the heck with being safe if you live in Illinois.  Does (Illinois Senator) Dick Durbin feel the same way?

Maybe the safest thing for America would have been to keep them in Cuba?

To top it off and to show your toughness, you throw in your best Tom Clancy line, “Bringing terrorists into our state would have presented a clear and present danger to everyone who lives here.”

I thought he would at least have inserted a Jack Ryan photo in the press release.

Over the top Max.  Over the top and very silly.