{"id":189779,"date":"2010-02-15T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/15\/bowing-out-like-a-punk\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:35:00","slug":"bowing-out-like-a-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/15\/bowing-out-like-a-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowing Out Like a Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yeah, like this will go over with Indiana voters<\/span><\/div>\n

Evan Bayh will not stand for reelection<\/a>.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

Yes, unlike Chris Dodd, who announced well in advance, and was frank about the reason, that he thought that he would lose, Evan Bayh’s announcement comes as a complete surprise to to everyone, with 1 day left to the primary filing deadline, and the only person close to having the signatures necessary being a protest candate, Tamyra d’Ippolito, a caf\u00e9 owner in Bloomington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If she gets the necessary signatures, 500 signatures in each Congressional district, it means that if any Democrat wants to run against her, they will have to do so as a write in candidate<\/span> in the May primary.<\/p>\n

If she gets the signatures, expect the Dem establishment to challenge every<\/span> signature.<\/p>\n

If she doesn’t get the signatures, then the Indiana Democrat Party appoints a nominee, with the likely suspects being, “Dem Reps Brad Ellsworth and Baron Hill, and Evansville mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I’m hoping for the mayor, because I don’t care about the municipal government of Evansville, but I do care about the composition of the United States House of Representatives, and both Ellsworth and Hill are Blue Dogs.<\/p>\n

Mother Jones<\/span> nailed it when they said, “Evan Bayh quits in a huff<\/a>“, because the manner of his withdrawal makes it clear that he is doing this in a way most calculated to cause damage to the Democratic Party, either by leaving them without a viable candidate for the Senate, or by pulling in a candidate from one of the Democratic Congressmen, which leaves that<\/span> seat open.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, most of the potential big name Republican candidates have already elected not to run, which leaves former Senator Dan Coats, who, as Charles Lemos shows<\/a>, moved out of the state, and has to rent<\/span> a house to run. (See video)<\/p>\n

Still I do not think that this is an attempt to jam up the Republicans, he did it out of pique.<\/p>\n

Why else would he have waited until after the news was public to tell Harry Reid<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I agree with Mark Ambinder who nails it in a tweet<\/a>, either 100 characters, or 81 if you don’t count spaces:<\/p>\n

Why Bayh? He wanted to be POTUS and came to hate the Senate and liberal activists. He wanted no mas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He not only voted for the Iraq invasion, he was a f%$#ing cosponsor for the bill<\/span>, which means that he will never be president, and now he is pouting.<\/p>\n

Joe Lieberman writ small.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Like Evan Bayh ever stood for <\/span>anything<\/span>, except perhaps for the ambition of Evan Bayh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, like this will go over with Indiana voters Evan Bayh will not stand for reelection.* Yes, unlike Chris Dodd, who announced well in advance, and was frank about the reason, that he thought that he would lose, Evan Bayh’s announcement comes as a complete surprise to to everyone, with 1 day left to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189779"}],"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=189779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}