{"id":183109,"date":"2015-03-11T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/11\/when-did-evan-bayh-piss-in-ezra-kleins-cheerios\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:48:00","slug":"when-did-evan-bayh-piss-in-ezra-kleins-cheerios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/11\/when-did-evan-bayh-piss-in-ezra-kleins-cheerios\/","title":{"rendered":"When did Evan Bayh Piss in Ezra Klein&#8217;s Cheerios?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure when Ezra Klein decided that Evan Bayh done him wrong, but his latest in the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/post\/the-sad-hypocritical-retirement-of-evan-bayh\/2011\/03\/10\/AB4MZzY_blog.html\">The sad, hypocritical retirement of Evan Bayh<\/a>, which details the former Senator going deep into the K-Street lobbying scene:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But Bayh did not return to Indiana to teach. He did not, as he said he was thinking of doing, join a foundation. Rather, he went to the massive law firm McGuire Woods. And who does McGuire Woods work for? \u201cPrincipal clients served from our Washington office include national energy companies, foreign countries, international manufacturing companies, trade associations and local and national businesses,\u201d reads the company\u2019s Web site. He followed that up by signing on as a senior adviser to Apollo Management Group, a giant public-equity firm. And, finally, this week, he joined Fox News as a contributor. It\u2019s as if he\u2019s systematically ticking off every poison he identified in the body politic and rushing to dump more of it into the water supply.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In our last interview, Bayh complained of the poor opinion the public had of him and his colleagues. \u201cThey look at us like we\u2019re worse than used-car salesmen.\u201d Yes. They do. And this is why.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken Mr. Klein at least 4 years to recognize Bayh as a self absorbed snake oil salesman peddling himself.<\/p>\n<p>I had this figured out well before his abortive 2008 Presidential run.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I wonder why Klein finally notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure when Ezra Klein decided that Evan Bayh done him wrong, but his latest in the Washington Post, titled, &#8220;The sad, hypocritical retirement of Evan Bayh, which details the former Senator going deep into the K-Street lobbying scene: \u2026\u2026\u2026But Bayh did not return to Indiana to teach. He did not, as he said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1011,1064,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}