Evan Bayh Won't Seek Re-Election

[Ibanez]

at the rate we are going there may be very few returning members of congress next year. Good thing for those Sens who arent up this year. I think both parties would be wise to challenge their incumbents, because there isnt a anti democrat movement as conks would like u to believe... there is an anti incumbent movement.

The thing is, it's been an anti incumbent movement going back to 2006 but some people haven't been playing close attention. Back then, the GOP got tossed because they were spending uncontrollably and Bush was weak in the WH. It continued through 2008 as the GOP was seen as the party of the incumbents, and now, as the Dems have pretty much bungled that interpretation and thought they had a huge mandate to do whatever they want, including continuing the spending spree, they look to lose the most this Fall.

It's a shame because Bayh is probably the type of politician we really want in Washington, however, as he admits, the town is almost pandering entirely to the political zealots and both parties have lost the middle ground where typically power resides. Until one party makes a move to claim the middle ground, both parties will be faced with anti-incumbency issues.

Yup. Good analysis GF. I agree 100%.

Another thing, TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS!
We need more Statesmen and Stateswomen than politicians.

[dbackjon]

Can we get another 600+ of these?

Where are the other 65 coming from? We need reform people! We need term limits imposed on the incubents and finance reform. Also, i'd go a step further and say stop spending taxpayer money on individual campaigns.

535 Reps, 100 Senators.


Term Limits are a joke, IMHO - they just give more power to Lobbyists.

And actually, having all campaigns publically financed would be a great reform and equalizer.

[ASUG8]

Where are the other 65 coming from? We need reform people! We need term limits imposed on the incubents and finance reform. Also, i'd go a step further and say stop spending taxpayer money on individual campaigns.

535 Reps, 100 Senators.


Term Limits are a joke, IMHO - they just give more power to Lobbyists.

And actually, having all campaigns publically financed would be a great reform and equalizer.

It's actually 435 reps.

[dbackjon]

535 Reps, 100 Senators.


Term Limits are a joke, IMHO - they just give more power to Lobbyists.

And actually, having all campaigns publically financed would be a great reform and equalizer.

It's actually 435 reps.

[UNHWildCats]

It's actually 435 reps.

Northern Arizoneah Edgekashun Sorry Jon

[polsongrizz]

It's a shame because Bayh is probably the type of politician we really want in Washington, however, as he admits, the town is almost pandering entirely to the political zealots and both parties have lost the middle ground where typically power resides. Until one party makes a move to claim the middle ground, both parties will be faced with anti-incumbency issues.

This is a good thing. This shitewad and his wife are really just corporate hacks. He might as well been a republican. He will show up as a lobbyist making ten times what he made stealing from the public. He is really what is wrong with politicians as a whole.

This sounds like another Cindy McCain...

Susan Bayh, a lawyer, drew more than $837,0000 from her work on seven corporate boards last year.

She is a director at Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., "which is part of a medical research partnership awarded a $24.7 million federal grant in May after Evan Bayh and his Indiana colleagues in Congress recommended the group to the National Institutes of Health,'' Bloomberg's Timothy Burger reports. "She's on the board of E*Trade Bank, a subsidiary of E*Trade Financial Corp., while her husband sits on the Senate Banking Committee. She is lead director at Emmis Communications Corp., an Indianapolis radio-station operator that published Evan Bayh's 2003 memoir.

[GannonFan]

It's a shame because Bayh is probably the type of politician we really want in Washington, however, as he admits, the town is almost pandering entirely to the political zealots and both parties have lost the middle ground where typically power resides. Until one party makes a move to claim the middle ground, both parties will be faced with anti-incumbency issues.

This is a good thing. This shitewad and his wife are really just corporate hacks. He might as well been a republican. He will show up as a lobbyist making ten times what he made stealing from the public. He is really what is wrong with politicians as a whole.

This sounds like another Cindy McCain...

Susan Bayh, a lawyer, drew more than $837,0000 from her work on seven corporate boards last year.

She is a director at Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., "which is part of a medical research partnership awarded a $24.7 million federal grant in May after Evan Bayh and his Indiana colleagues in Congress recommended the group to the National Institutes of Health,'' Bloomberg's Timothy Burger reports. "She's on the board of E*Trade Bank, a subsidiary of E*Trade Financial Corp., while her husband sits on the Senate Banking Committee. She is lead director at Emmis Communications Corp., an Indianapolis radio-station operator that published Evan Bayh's 2003 memoir.

I'm struggling to see what the problem is here. Do they make too much money to be allowed in public office? Was the grant for $24.7M not justified? Has E*Trade Bank been given special consideration by Bayh and the Senate Banking Committee.

See, this is the problem with political discourse today - pot shots can be taken at anybody just on the grounds that there could be a conflict of interest. However, what gets missed in all of this is whether the appearance of a conflict of interest actually resulted in the politician doing something that wasn't in the best interest of the public he/she was serving.

Unless you can actually point to something in those connections that didn't serve the public good, then rattling them off like some kind of smoking gun is the very problem we have with politics today - internet politicos can say and do anything without any actual proof of wrongdoing, and zealous partisans who want to tar and feather the opposition as evil will believe every word of it simply because they want to believe it to be true.

[Ibanez]

535 Reps, 100 Senators.


Term Limits are a joke, IMHO - they just give more power to Lobbyists.

And actually, having all campaigns publically financed would be a great reform and equalizer.

It's actually 435 reps.

Thank you..I hate correcting people.