Wednesday, February 17, 2010

What an immense pussy

You may have heard that political legacy baby, corporatist idiot, and milquetoast centrist halfwit Evan Bayh is quitting the Senate because he doesn't love it or something. He's setting it free and if it returns, it was meant to be. He's not seeking reelection in Indiana, where he was expected to waltz to victory, because he's tired of the hyper-partisanship in Washington.

Ignoring the fact that it's people like him that contribute greatly to Washington's ills, he essentially sees the best way to cure the Senate of it's partisanship is to take his ball and go home, quit in a manner that makes it much easier for Republicans to take his seat and increase gridlock even more, and then go become a lobbyist. But this low grade hypocrisy is par for the Bayh course.

I'm not so much interested in losing a shitty Senator as I am in the reasons for his leaving that are leaking out. He sounds like an immense fucking baby.

In his two terms in the Senate, Bayh cut a centrist path and worked across party lines, which at times frustrated liberal Democrats.

"He hates the Senate, hates the left bloggers," a friend and longtime adviser to Bayh said. "They are getting their wish, pure Democrats in the minority."

Aww, he doesn't like the dirty hippies. What else?
Bayh is an anomaly of sorts; he really grew to dislike the influence of liberal activists on his Senate colleagues. To him, these activists increased the cost of doing business.
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When it became clear to Bayh that the White House wasn't going to play his game -- wasn't going to sell out liberals at every turn -- Bayh decided he had had enough.
What a pussy. He quit because the hippies didn't like him and because Obama wasn't going to sell them out hard enough. Need I point out to Bayh that the dirty liberals haven't gotten anything they wanted and that centrist corporate stooges like Evan Bayh have essentially dictated and watered down the congressional agenda? That wasn't good enough?

So let me be the 9 millionth human to make the "Buh-Bayh" joke and advise that you not let the door hit you in the ass too hard on your way out. Good luck reforming the country from a giant lobbying conglomerate while prepping your 2012 run or whatever it is you've deluded yourself into thinking will happen now.

These are the type of people that run our country. Does that explain everything yet?

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