The reason Bayh is leaving the Senate is that he doens't have a snowball's chance in hell of being re-elected.
Posted on 02/20/2010 5:06:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Good riddance. Bayh is not a moderate. He is simply just another left-wing Dem who realizes the gig is up.
Did he,by any chance,state that he was leaving the Senate because “our internal polling conducted since Senator Brown’s victory in Massachusetts indicated that I was extremely vulnerable”?
DAVE ITZKOFF tweeted earlier in the day that Bayh was involved with some National Parks girl.
No clue of its’ accuracy. After all, he writes for the New York Times.
Tell it to TOTUS, Reid, and Pelosi.
Evan Bayh Hires Maoist for ‘10 Campaign.
http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2009/12/11/evan-bayh-hires-maoist-for-10-campaign/
Anita Dunn has advised Bayh for 10 years.
http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2009/12/11/evan-bayh-hires-maoist-for-10-campaign/
“... Congress must be reformed.”
I do wonder what type of reform the gentleman was considering?
Nobody cares Evan. Just go. You were going to lose and you knew it.
Most people who leave something have the good sense to just shut up and go.
Ev is preparing for a prez. run in a couple of years. Remember, you read it here.
Didn’t Bayh vote FOR everything coming down the pike? Now he’s bailing? But he’s trying to make it sound like he’s conservative and the liberals are too far out for him. So he can run for President.
one scenario
How much you wanna bet this guy fillibustered judical nominees a few years back?
Great info; I’ll check it out. Judging by his wife’s barely contained giddiness at his presser on quitting the Senate, I know there is more to the story.
I take this with a grain, as I cannot attest to its veracity, yet evidently when he was governor, his wife tossed his clothes out in the yard on two separate occasions. The word on the street was infidelity.
Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
There is no better representation of the misguided corruption of the US Congress than this diatribe by Evan Bayh. Is it not perfectly clear here that Senator Bayh regards the whole Senate experience as some sort of personal men's club, an elitist fraternity of go-along get-along; when all the time the lives of millions of honest citizens are affected by their authoritarian actions? This reflection of his is the perfect example of the problem - these really are arrogant self indulgent people, even if they got to that point by the most naive process. I'm not sure that any of us would not succumb to the same egocentric disease, but that must be arrested, perhaps by term limits.
Evan Bayh, younger than myself, really has become a misguided (corrupted) individual indicated by his discussion here; pre-empting the ideological obligation to a trusting citizenry by an infatuation with personal motives and relationships. Sarah Palin's endorsement of John McCain somewhat reflects the same syndrome in the sense of personal loyalty pre-empting the necessity of ridding our leadership of this corrupted candidate. We are not here nor do we pay our taxes, nor do we submit our money to Goldman Sachs, to make our Senators self-satisfied, happy boys and girls.
Furthermore in the above quote, action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative..., the deficit was created overwhelmingly by Democrats, the economy was devastated by Democrats, our energy dependence is perpetrated by Democrats, and our abysmal misguidance on healthcare is pepetrated by Democrats.
How obvious is it?
Bring back dueling. It would allow citizens the opportunity to cull the Marxist herd.
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