and his second home in Washington
Posted on 02/16/2010 6:07:33 AM PST by bjorn14
Retiring Sen. Evan Bayh (BY) says voters across the country could deliver "a shock" to Congress if lawmakers don't work in more harmony and drop rampant partisanship.
In a nationally broadcast interview Tuesday, the Indiana Democrat said "the extremes of both parties have to be willing to accept compromises" in order to accomplish things for the national good.
Bayh denied that he had an interest in running for president and said on ABC's "Good Morning America" he told President Barack Obama on Monday that he would support his re-election. Bayh also said he thinks voters are in a mood to turn out many incumbents "until we change this town, until we reform Congress."
Two-term Sen. Evan Bayh says ever-shriller partisanship and the frustrations of gridlock made it time for him to leave Congress. Republicans aren't buying it, saying he and fellow Democrats sense that voters will be after their heads this fall.
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He is still not willing to admit that the problem is the dims.
The "Republicans" shouldn't get too smug as this conservative is ready to throw the lot out!
What an idiot. How can he claim partisam gridlock when they had a filibusterproof majority in both houses plus the POTUS.
In the case of the health care bill, stopping it was for the national good, and any compromise would have hurt this country.
Compromise is reasonable when there are things government has to do and we are arguing over HOW to do it.
Compromise is impossible when there are two directions to go, and one is wrong and one is right. Walking through the thickets toward nowhere isn't a reasonable choice when there are two roads and one goes where you need to go and the other goes the wrong way.
boo hoo, the republican extremists won’t play nice, they ruined our cozy little congress club, “the people” want us to all “get along” just like Rodney King said.. I’m taking my marbles and going home .......
E Bayh goes Buh Bayh
Nobody cares about partisanship. People care about doing what’s right for the country. Lawmakers shouldn’t get a mulligan until they align with the will of the voters.
What a pantload.
Where was Bayh during the eight years of hyperpartisanship during the Bush Presidency? Deaf, dumb and blind?
Bayh’s problem is with his own party.
It is amazing that the Dems keep trying to insinuate the GOP when the Dems have the majorities in both Houses of Congress and the Oval Office.
The truth is, the smarter politicians know that financially, the solid waste matter is about to hit the rotary oscillator.
They are running for cover.
When the American people realize the extent to which Congress has stripped them and their children and their grandchildren of their financial future, their anger is going to be turned on these politicians.
He is just getting out of Dodge while he can.
One other thing—when you’re as old as Bayh, don’t part your hair in the middle.
“Compromise is impossible when there are two directions to go, and one is wrong and one is right”
50% of a bad plan, is still a bad plan
Wouldn’t it be interesting if this ties into Beck hinting that he is talking to patriots inside this government who really want to protect the constitution..
If I were one of Becks supporters, this is exactly what I would have to do after a period of introspection. Resign and then be free to discuss the abuses that have happened.
Glad to see him go. Now where is his acknowledgment HE played a part in these God awful votes and policies?
You thought you'd ride out a couple of terms in the Senate and move right on in to 1600 Pennsylvania.
But instead of fighting for your constituents and doing what is right for this country, you just sat in silence became another one of Harrys butt-boys.
I don’t think Bayh is a marxist..and probably has at least some reverence for the Constitution...whereas Obama has NONE...although someone posted that Birch bayh was left of Mao.
Well, one thing WE’RE not delivering there anymore is YOUR worthless ass.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
“bi-partisan” to a RAT means that repubs are supposed to be wimps and let the leftist agenda roll over them.
adios, bayh, you won’t be missed.
Sometimes the best way to "accomplish things for the national good" is to do nothing, change nothing. Few in Congress ever realize that, and act like passing legislation is progress just like producing more needed manufactured products is progress.
**voters across the country could deliver “a shock” to Congress**
YO, BAYH .. is that why you heading out of town so fast????
He votes like a liberal, yet he pretends he’s a moderate, then he quits when it looks like he’s going to have to spend most of his campaign war chest. What a brave soul!!
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