Democrat Seantor Evan Bayh Retires

[Karalysia]

The 2008 ticket was Brian Moore/Stewart Alexander.

If by plumber you mean this?

Internationally, Moore has been involved in community development, reconstruction and infrastructure rehabilitation projects (housing, water, electricity and sewage) in the developing and poverty-stricken countries of Panama, Peru, and Ecuador. For more than five years, Moore designed and implemented programs for public health projects (vaccination and health education) in Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Mexico) and Tanzania, Africa, in coordination with and on behalf of private corporations, religious institutions and non-governmental organizations. Moore raised $3 million for a de-worming project that successfully protected more than one million children from parasitic infections in the poverty-stricken areas of Brazil, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic

 

[GenMarshall]

Unfortunately, the Worker's Party (by that I mean the Socialist Party USA) doesnt stand the chance against the top two big parties.

 

[MobBoss]

The 2008 ticket was Brian Moore/Stewart Alexander.

You guys trying to elect Archie Bunker?

I thought that pose went out a long time ago? Like in the 70's? Black Panther?

If by plumber you mean this?

Maybe he should run for President of Guatemala?

 

[Karalysia]

You guys trying to elect Archie Bunker?



I thought that pose went out a long time ago? Like in the 70's? Black Panther?



Maybe he should run for President of Guatemala?

I'm not ancient enough to know who that is.

Not really. The raised fist is still used by Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, labor movements and black nationalists etc...

They would probably appreciate him more.

 

[GenMarshall]

I thought that pose went out a long time ago? Like in the 70's? Black Panther?

I use it all the time to express my rage against the capitalist fat cats and sleezy Republicans. It's the raised fist of RAGE!!!!!

 

[Karalysia]

Yeah, no he's wrong. It expresses solidarity and power.

 

[GenMarshall]

Yeah, no he's wrong. It expresses solidarity and power.

You've never expressed it in rage?

 

[Karalysia]

Never done it at all. I'm not in the habit of fist pumping.

 

[OscarWildebeest]

Bayh, IMO, got scared at the creeping poll numbers and decided he didn't want a tough re-election fight. I agree, the seat should now be a slam-dunk for the GOP.

 

[MobBoss]

Yeah, no he's wrong. It expresses solidarity and power.

And here I thought it was simply a confirmation that their underarm deoderant was working.

Seriously though. Fist pumping went out a long, long time ago. No wonder they cant get any votes.

Never done it at all. I'm not in the habit of fist pumping.

So you dont express solidarity and power?

 

[bhsup]

Which republicans have said they are going to retire?

My boy Kit Bond is. It's Roy Blunt vs Robin Carnahan (probably...pre-primary but if it isn't them I'll be just shocked) for his seat.

 

[illram]

I don't buy it. He cheated on his wife or smoked meth with a gay prostitute or something.

If not, I can't respect the attitude that you just decide to quit when it gets rough. (And Presidential run? Has Palin made it OK to start your Presidential run by quitting when the going gets rough?)

And really, I don't buy it that it's rough. This is politics, it's always been nasty. He knows that. He should have already known that.

I don't buy it.

 

[Martacus]

Bayh, IMO, got scared at the creeping poll numbers and decided he didn't want a tough re-election fight. I agree, the seat should now be a slam-dunk for the GOP.

Not really, on either count. The potential Republican candidate he would have been facing has A) not held public office in Indiana or anywhere else for I believe something like ten years, and B) gone on the record that all things being equal, he'd rather be in North Carolina. Even with Bayh being a little less popular lately than he has been, he would still be a shoe-in over Dan Coats. A couple other Dem. representatives appear to be stepping up for the nomination.

And for what it's worth, I can understand both his leaving over "increased partisan rancor" and the inpression on the part of his critics that it's a cop-out argument. Things really have gotten worse in the Senate of late, if the news is to be believed (senators voting against commisions THEY proposed?), but still--what does one expect, cooperation? Maybe he's a little sore over not getting the VP nomination. I don't think there's any sort of scandal cover-up giong on or we would have heard some peep of it by now, somewhere (Edwards comes to mind).

 

[Miles Teg]

Bayh, IMO, got scared at the creeping poll numbers and decided he didn't want a tough re-election fight.

Gotta back up Martacus on this. Bayh was looking in trouble for a bit there when Mike Pence was mulling a run, but once it was just Dan Coats (a politician of such skill and connections that, back in the nineties, he attached his rising star to Dan Quayle) Bayh was pretty much guaranteed another term.

 

[Shadylookin]

Good. The sooner we purge the so-called "moderates" who are nothing more than a Republican 5th column the better.

I hope all the moderates lose their seats, every single one of them. Purge baby, purge.

In Indiana your options are moderate democrat or right wing republican. So purging them won't make your agenda move forward any.

 

[DinoDoc]

A couple other Dem. representatives appear to be stepping up for the nomination.

Were they able to meet the deadline? As far as I know only some crazy person who was going to make a primary challenge against Bayh was even close.

 

[Bill3000]

brb, going to cry in the corner of my room now

 

[Berzerker]

I don't buy it. He cheated on his wife or smoked meth with a gay prostitute or something.

If not, I can't respect the attitude that you just decide to quit when it gets rough. (And Presidential run? Has Palin made it OK to start your Presidential run by quitting when the going gets rough?)

And really, I don't buy it that it's rough. This is politics, it's always been nasty. He knows that. He should have already known that.

I don't buy it.

I dont think he's quitting mid-term, but just watch what he does in the months after leaving. I believe his wife is already a bigshot lobbyist, and he may be in line for Billy Tauzin's job as a lobbyist for some major industry, probably health and/or pharma.

Thats our system, politicians in Washington expand their power over us in spite of the Constitution, then they use that power to extort campaign contributions from big business. Big business then buys even more influence and we end up with a quasi-fascist system of big govt and big business working together to benefit big govt and big business.

 

[Karalysia]

I dont think he's quitting mid-term, but just watch what he does in the months after leaving. I believe his wife is already a bigshot lobbyist, and he may be in line for Billy Tauzin's job as a lobbyist for some major industry, probably health and/or pharma.

Thats our system, politicians in Washington expand their power over us in spite of the Constitution, then they use that power to extort campaign contributions from big business. Big business then buys even more influence and we end up with a quasi-fascist system of big govt and big business working together to benefit big govt and big business.

Welcome to the Communist Party.

 

[Berzerker]

dont have to be a commie to oppose corruption