Buh Bayh

Madame Cura dared me to write that headline. It's not my fault.

Anyway, I was going to write a little more about Bayh than just a tack-on to a piece about a real person as opposed to the Suit that gave a ridiculous, self-absorbed speech about "partisan rancor" that failed to note that what set him over the edge were "seven Senators" that voted against a deficit commission. Not mentioning those seven were all "fiscally conservative" Republicans. His father, who actually stood for something other than his own political future, must be so proud.

Fortunately, though, Dog House has taken pen in hand and from his Indianapolis view point, says what I would have liked to say.

You're the "centrist" of "centrists" in the liberal party. Oddly enough, this does not make you the exact geo-political center of the country, or a commanding presence, or a guy with a big stick. It made you, by happenstance, a guy with a stash of stamps when somebody smarter, but penniless, wanted to mail a letter. Some of us would argue that partisanship isn't really all that changed from 2000, or '94, or '92, or '81, or '64, excepting that the Republican party can rest assured now that the Democrats won't fight it. So people in your Daddy's day went out for drinks after arguing across the aisle for a blistering three-and-one-half hours four days a week? So what? That's like saying board members at Augusta will ring for cocktails after arguing about the Eisenhower Tree. (No, I take that back; the modern US Senate has had three black members. World of difference.) Th' fuck would you want to go toss back a few with a co-worker who acts like he's blind drunk during business hours? The Republican party is clinically fucking insane, and the obvious contagion factor was roundly ignored. If this is the source of your trouble, Senator Bayh, why didn't you say so? Why didn't you say so five years ago, or ten? Trying to compromise a pack of rabid terriers into submission was your big idea, Senator. It didn't work, so you take your ball and go home? Sure. Might you at least say so on your way out?