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Evan Bayh Retiring from the Senate
Posted: Feb 16, 2010
WASHINGTON – Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat from Indiana, announced Monday that he won't seek a third term in Congress, giving Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat.
"To put it in words I think most people can understand: I love working for the people of Indiana, I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress," Bayh said at a news conference Indianapolis, where he was joined by his wife and two sons.
The departure of Bayh, who was on President Barack Obama's short list of vice presidential candidate prospects in 2008, continues a recent exodus from Congress among both Democrats and Republicans, including veteran Democrats Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island.
More on this, but please google. I lost my toolbar and can't copy any addresses. This one was on yahoo news.com
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The onus is on the voter to fire pandering partisans - and obtuse obsructionists...
[ In Reply To ..]Clearly, there is no cause for either side to rejoice or make far-fetched forecasts one way or the other about 2010 or 2012. This simply means that incumbents who have demonstrated an unwillingness to negotiate or compromise (i.e., do their jobs) are headed for the guillotine, or should be.
This does not mean that either party is going to get what they think they are going to get out of an incumbent exodus, whether it is by their own hands (resignation or withdrawal) or at the hands of the voters. The Iranian revolution in 1979 comes to mind. There were countless parties across a very broad spectrum who worked to overthrow the shah, but NONE OF THEM could have guessed that their hard work would result in the installation of an Islamic regime, straight out of far right field.
Personally, I have little faith that the partisanship Bayh decries is confined to inside the beltway. Voters are doomed to write their own demise if they are not able to take their blinders off long enough to realize their own culpability in promoting the brain-dead divisive standstill we have reached by my-way-or-the-highway rhetoric.
On the other hand, practical measures to break gridlock already exist. Reconciliation,executive order, and the Nuclear option. In the presence of legislative inertia, these are legitimate and viable options. Nothing is stopping them from coming up with new initiatives aimed at log-jam busting either.
IMO, dems need to grow a spine and pubs needs to develop a conscience. Both need to remember the heart of the issues, that being the best interests of their nation and ours, and the future of its democratic identity.
Well put - NJ
[ In Reply To ..]Thanks for summing it up so nicely, especially your parting paragraph which takes a shot at dems and republicans alike. How partisan, and very right-on!
NJ
Excellent post! - Sick Of It~
[ In Reply To ..]"IMO, dems need to grow a spine and pubs needs to develop a conscience. Both need to remember the heart of the issues, that being the best interests of their nation and ours, and the future of its democratic identity."
Says it beautifully!!
Congressional Quarterly analysis of 2009 partisanship - interesting read, especially the graph.
[ In Reply To ..]Excerpts:
By many CQ measures, the only people who have been brought together are the Democrats � with themselves � and the same for Republicans.
Every year, Congressional Quarterly measures the percentage of partisan votes taken in the House and Senate. A roll call vote is considered partisan if a majority of Democrats votes against a majority of Republicans. It has hovered around a relatively high 50 percent in the House for the past two decades and stayed there this year, at 51 percent. But in the Senate, it was a whopping 72 percent - the highest percentage of partisan votes ever tallied in that chamber.
Ornstein said the divide is all the more striking because 2009 started out after an election that was a clear expression of public support for change and a new bipartisanship.
"You have a president who wins in a landslide," Ornstein said. "He enters office on Jan. 20 with a 70 percent approval rating. We have an economy teetering at the edge of the abyss, and he comes up with a major initiative to deal with it. Three weeks into his presidency, not a single Republican in the House votes for the bill."
n other words, Ornstein said, today politicians are constantly campaigning. Unlike much of the 20th century when Democrats were perceived as a sort of permanent majority, now the control of the House and Senate seems always up for grabs. So the parties work hard to emphasize their differences.
I've been around Washington for 40 years, immersed in the politics of Congress and the White House. And it's nasty and brutish, as much or more as I've ever seen.
- Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Another factor, said Ornstein, is the increasingly conservative Republican party. There is little room for ideological conversation in the GOP. Moderates these days tend to be Democrats.
Entire article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122441095
distressing - deb
[ In Reply To ..]to watch this opportunity for progress squandered. Happily though word is that in the repub grotto they are hatching new plans to discontinue social security for those currently under 55. Then all the founding father and small government screamers will get their just due.
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