Good Bayh and Good Luck

   The ominous sky over Lake Kankakee paled in contrast to the groundswell. The summer of restlessness was disconcerting to Evan Bayh, town hall meetings weren’t his preference. So, while Mike Pence (R) was in Ft. Wayne, enlightening those to the foils of Obamacare, Baron Hill (D) was calling his 9th Congressional District constituents “political terrorists.” Evan Bayh wanted no part of it.

   The wheels of disconnect were already in motion for the two-term Indiana Senator, who by mid-August  hadn’t held a town hall, instead saying, “its something I might do in the future”  if I ever feel I’m being cut out of the debate.” A onetime consideration as an Obama running-mate, Bayh becomes the third Democratic senator to walk in 2010. Having never held an Obamacare Town Hall, Bayh paradoxically said he loved serving the citizens, but didn’t love Congress.

   What the moderate Bayh couldn’t fix were his falling poll numbers and the unending destruction of the Democratic Party by the radical Obama-Pelosi-Reid regime. Not since the Reagan Revolution, creation of Reagan Democrats or Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Contract with America have the Democrats fallen off the radar of reality. Once leading the rallying cry for Obamanomics, Bayh could do little more than helplessly watch the economic downturn in cities like Elkhart, Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis, and across America.

   Therein lays the snag for Democrats in both Houses whose feeding tubes stop dripping after November. While Bayh said he stood “for progress, not politics,” that premise wasn’t made easier when in the week of February, Obama told Democrats to remember why they were there in the first place.

   If Bayh was able to avoid the voters last summer, he may not be able to evade the final piece of the Democrat’s stronghold on disaster. Lord Obama also mandated that “even though it’s hard,” Democrats need to get out there and finish the job of financial regulation and health care.

   Without GOP input, however, Obamacare can only move forward through reconciliation; passing with 51 votes instead of the now filibuster-proof 60 in the Senate, something former Clinton White House aide and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Bill Galston says Democrats have to do “to show the country they are capable of governing.” That of course would be the sword twisting through the Democrat’s gut and all but insure a Republican sweep in the midterms.

   Will Evan Bayh’s vote be among those 51? Given his reasons for bowing out, you’d have to think not, but then again, he steered clear of the voices of discontent, so stay tuned.

[Via http://alaskanangle.wordpress.com]

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