Bayh Retiring from Senate

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by matt8209, Feb 15, 2010.

  1. matt8209

    matt8209 100+ Posts

  2. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Good. Yet another scumbag incumbent who has seen the writing on the wall. We're making good progress. Only a few hundred more to go!
     
  3. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    But Bayh had a campaing chest of 12-13 Million and was ahead by double digits in all poll, in some as much as 20 .

    Why would he quit?
     
  4. YoLaDu

    YoLaDu Guest


     
  5. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Yo
    Likely and I don't blame him. MSNBC though? He might be too moderate for them.
     
  6. YoLaDu

    YoLaDu Guest

    Is he is to the right of Joe Scarborough or something?
     
  7. bronco

    bronco Guest

    Well if hereally has $12 M he can set up a foundation that either he or his wife are head of and donate all $12M to the foundation and then pay himself or his wife whatever salary he wants until the $12 M is used up. Not a bad gig.
     
  8. Uninformed

    Uninformed 5,000+ Posts

    Perhaps, like Palin, he is getting a divorce.
     
  9. gecko

    gecko 2,500+ Posts

    He's going to run for President. Maybe 2012....probably 2016.
     
  10. YoLaDu

    YoLaDu Guest


     
  11. Wild Bill

    Wild Bill 1,000+ Posts

    Bayh is way to the right of Reid and Pelosi. Didn't President Obama almost select him as VP instead of Biden?
     
  12. Don Trull

    Don Trull < 25 Posts

    It is a sad day for America whengys liked this give up
     
  13. notreally

    notreally 1,000+ Posts

    good interview out today.... he seems to go after both parties a bit. obviously he is more frustrated with the R's, but asked for people to vote out incumbents period.


     
  14. mcbrett

    mcbrett 2,500+ Posts

    I'd call him a true moderate- and the fact that he blasted the inability of the system to accomplish anything to solve our problems says volumes about him- in a good way.

    I think he should direct his energy differently however- try to fix/change the system to make it not what he and all of us know it is- a disaster.

    If you are conservative- and are bashing him like some of the previous posts already have because he is a Dem- perhaps you should read more about him. Liberal Dems do not win Senate seats in Indiana. Bayh is a true moderate, a centrist- and he has issues with the system that many of the same folks who just blasted him say themselves. If you don't like moderates or centrists- IMO you would make the type of politician who would never work with the other side, never generate bi-partisan legislation and are a major reason we have this problem in the first place.

    Identify with the party you like more- either side- but to be one of those talking heads who has nothing good to say, ever, or never ever has once agreed with an idea from the other side- is why our country can't address its problems head on. With this logic- only with a true 61 seat majority, house majority and White House could one party ever get anything done. With this partisan bickering- you are essentially setting up the country to fail unless on occasion you can come to terms with the other party and its centrists- centrists like Evan Bayh.
     
  15. 911_horn

    911_horn 500+ Posts

    america would have been a hell of a lot better off if Bayh was POTUS right now. A hell of a lot better. I hate to see those who seem to posses some degree of character, and common sense beat down by the morons, and people like Reid, Pelosi and Obama. Shame on the one hand to lose him, but great at the same time that another incumbent is out of Washington. term limits would really do so much to help this country. it just makes too much sense which is why it will never happen.
     
  16. Murphy'sBoy

    Murphy'sBoy 1,000+ Posts

    If they wanted to help the process, they should all resign at the same time and we could start over. The partisan gridlock will never end.
     
  17. matt8209

    matt8209 100+ Posts


     
  18. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    WEll this is pretty damning for obama and the Dems:
    " Bayh says Democrats have yet to create a single private-sector job"
    and
    " When asked what he plans to do with his time after his term expires, Bayh says that he will worry about that when the time comes. If he chooses to start a business in the private sector, though, he’s sure he will outperform Congress in job creation:“f I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.”


    ??
    I didn't read any criticism of him in here due to him being a Dem. Sange cheered him leaving and called him an incumbent . For the most part we all think they all should go.

    Bayh OTOH might be able to do some good as an outsider, not good for Dems but good for the country.

    vid of bayh at linkThe Link
     
  19. mcbrett

    mcbrett 2,500+ Posts

    How did he vote for cap and trade when it didn't even go for a vote yet Matt?

    Do you know anything about Evan Bayh other than his party affiliation?
     
  20. matt8209

    matt8209 100+ Posts


     
  21. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    cap and trade was voted on in several committees in the Senate.Bayh might have voted it out of committee but I doubt he would have voted for it on the floor. It would have killed his state.

    sometimes pols vote something out of committee to get it to floor for an up and down.
     
  22. bullzak

    bullzak 500+ Posts

    Its time to make open war on all incumbents of either party. Both have driven us into a financial ditch without accountability.

    Vote new blood in, and demand term limits.

    A little anarchy is better than the semi-organized theft from taxpayers you have going on now.
     

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