“I’m not sure what Massachusetts type political shenanigans you’re referring to”
Last-minute candidate Replacements like in New Jersey, or fast law changes like Massachusetts did for Kirk.
All of the posters here claiming that Bayh is getting out because he is too “conservative” for Obama should read his remarks.
He is blaming Republicans for being too partisan! Waaaah!!
He whines about senators killing the Obama “bipartisan” debt commission - which everyone knows was a gimmick designed to give Obama cover to renege on his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Now Zero is going to simply appoint his own commission and like the emperor with no clothes pretend that it will give him cover anyway.
Bayh has ALREADY voted in favor of government nationalization of health care!
There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat - Bayh has proved this to us.
I think what we may in fact see is Bayh now willing to be one of 50 votes to shove Obamacare down the throat of the country through reconciliation.
Also, we may see him vote to push amnesty for illegals through this year.
He doesn’t have to face the consequences of reelection.
He is a young guy - after six years or so, all of the illegals and the greatly enlarged dependent class of leeches created by Obamacare and by the further subsidization of the underclass will give the democrats a demographic permanent majority with blacks, hispanics, elite white socialists and underclass leeches.
Bayh will stroll back into power on a red carpet.
The change that allowed Kirk to be selected was the result of the legislature overriding a veto from Romney, so there's not much that a secretary of state could do to impact things. Interestingly enough, had the legislature not done anything, Kirk would now be senator until 2012 based on his appointment from the sitting governor (deval Patrick) at the time the vacancy opened up.