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.   Continue reading →