Evan Bayh is the purest manifestation of what is wrong with the Democratic Party.

[kentuck]

Everybody knows he is a "conservative Democrat". But that is not his main problem. He votes for the wars and taxcuts and Medicare prescription bills without a murmur about how to pay for any of them. Now he asks the President about "fiscal discipline". His problem is not that he is a conservative. His problem is that he is a hypocrite.

[DJ13]

1. His problem is not that he is a conservative. His problem is that he is a hypocrite.

Same thing isnt it?

[democrank]

2. K & R

A hypocrite indeed.

[asdjrocky]

3. And he's a turd.

[jgraz]

18. A conservative, hypocritical, corporatist turd.

[99 Percent Sure]

4. As the camera panned the room, several times it included Bayh and I was struck

by his demeanor as Pres Obama spoke. My observation was that his posture was hostile and even his eyes were full of malice. Frankly, I was shaken by his evident dislike/distrust for the president that seemed to radiate through his every fiber.

Somethings ain't right with him. Really, Pres Obama's worse enemies are Dems like Bayh. That the Dems have had a 60-vote majority is a myth.

[biscotti]

5. impostor

[quiet.american]

10. When Obama spoke at the '04 convention, Bayh knew his prez ambition for '08 was over.

I'll never forget a C-Span cutaway from Obama to Bayh on the 2004 convention floor with Bayh watching Obama as he spoke. In my observation, Bayh wore an expression of someone realizing his prez plans were going up in smoke, and all due to this incredible contender from out of nowhere, further, where Bayh's keynote address in 1996 has become notorious for its blandness, here was Obama giving one of the best speeches in convention history.

I shudder every time I read anywhere that Bayh was Hillary Clinton's first choice for VP. And I do mean shudder.

[xxqqqzme]

6. Too bad he isn't more lke his father.

He strikes me as someone who is always scheming on what his next move should be. He is always calculating, ignoring the here and now. Hoosiers need to cut him loose.

[quiet.american]

7. Was glad to hear Obama call him out on exactly that, too. --

But you make a very good point.

The GOP doesn't ask, "what is wrong with us."

But Blanche Lincoln and Evan Bayh stand there like two weak-kneed, dribbling idiots, apparently without a clue as to the strengths of their own party, asking Obama what they should say, instead of presenting rallying cries and solutions of their own for him and their colleagues.

Instead all they had to offer was fear and mealy-mouthed equivocating. Ugh.

[AlinPA]

8. Blanche Lincoln asked "How can we push back against Democrats?"

It was said inside her blabbing about "bipartisanship" and how she is from a family of Democrats....

[quiet.american]

11. Exhibit A as to what's wrong with the way the Dem caucus thinks. nt

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. To be fair

Evan would wear a pink TuTu everyday, get a mohawk and become a Wiccan if he thought it would get him to the Oval Office. I have known both he and his father for many years. Each and every political decision made by Evan Bayh is focused solely on becoming President. Everything else is secondary to that goal. My point is that Evan in not inherently evil like Dick Cheney, he is simply willing to bargain away every bit of his soul to attain his dream. The scary thing is that he got very close during Obama's winning run. As I understand it, the Obama folks literally flipped a coin to determine if Biden or Bayh got the VP nod.

[bvar22]

12. Bayh is up for re-election in 2010.

I believe he is unopposed in the Democratic Primary.

If The Left was serious, we would have a co-ordinated national campaign to support a Progressive challenger in Indiana.
We might not be able to unseat Bayh, but we COULD make his primary a living hell which would serve as an example of what happens to "Democrats" who vote with Republicans.

Republican turncoat Arlen Specter DOES have a Progressive challenger in Pennsylvania.




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because we already have enough Republicans in the Democratic Party.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. he's a fucking republican plant

[opihimoimoi]

14. As a hypocritical Turd...he certainly qualifies....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. K&R

[Emit]

16. That would make a very pithy letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or better yet,

to a newspaper in Evan Bayh's district.

[mochajava666]

17. I don't understand why Obama would think of him for VP

[troubledamerican]

19. To be fair, Rahm is the purest manifestation

and Harry Reid is a close second, tied with Diane Feinstein, Jane Harmon, Ben Nelson... you get the idea.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. are you retarded?

:evilgrin:

;)

[izzybeans]

21. He is a legacy hire. Akin to Bush getting into Yale. Or your boss giving her son

an internship that everyone knows will turn into an overpaid position one day.