Your wife is on the Board of Directors for WellPoint, the second largest health care corporation in America. Conflict of interest, much?
I think that speaks volumes on why we couldn’t get your cooperation on health care votes.
And the reason you gave for leaving? That it’s too partisan??! Speak for yourself, buddy. The partisanship is coming from blue dog a-holes, like yourself.
Everyone is whining about what a jerk Evan Bayh is for giving absolutely no notice about not running. I think it’s a god-send, personally. When Evan Bayh’s name was revealed as a potential V.P. candidate, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC went ballistic. It spoke volumes about Obama’s views on gay marriage, gays in the military, and human rights, in general. The whole notion of picking someone with such a strong rightwing attitude – just because he comes from a “hard to win” state like Indiana – didn’t seem justified. It was clear at the time that Indiana was not going to go for McCain. Heck, half the south was for Obama. It was an unbelievable blow-out. The notion of picking Bayh — while promising some kind of healthcare reform — just seemed too weird. (Maybe he figured Bayh’s inability to vote in the Senate would mean more?). Dunno…
I’m just glad Evan Bayh has decided to leave. He is still there until next January…but at least the Dems have until Friday to look for another candidate. Indiana’s Republican candidate is extremely unpopular (which is why Bayh was ahead by 20 pts), so this is certainly not going to be hard. Unless, of course, you’re counting on Harry Reid for any kind of help…
About Ginger
About me...let's see...
I guess I'm just another tree-huggin', commie, Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, unemployed blogger.
I'm anxious and vainly optimistic about where the country is headed, and openly dreaded the day Bush ever came into political office...I''m not happy about having a party filled with spineless "oh we need to cherish the blue dog dems" ...but I'm also glad that we are finally moving away from the cliff we were all teetering on for the past decade.
What bothers me most is the fact that too few people today understand how incredibly dangerous our government has become or how unreliable and weak our news sources are. I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the bulk of the mainstream media. It's not liberal - and it's certainly not fair or balanced. My kind of news reporting was the kind I grew up in the 70s, and clearly remember a time when the so-called liberal media was all about reporting the cold, hard facts, filled with investigative journalism, and anchors or reporters who refused to do fluff pieces - like cats stuck in trees, water-skiing squirrels, and Darwin-award-winning idiots who would do anything to make themselves into a news story. Being a reporter meant something more noble than a fat paycheck. You did your job because you wanted to get the truth out there. Now? You're mostly smeared or called a tin-foiled-hat-wearing lunatic of you find out - and expose - any kind of government or corporate corruption.
The upside of today's kind of media? Bloggers are a new breed of journalists - ready to hit the streets...err digital webspace... and have helped get a president elected, and a fascist dictatorship out of power.
