Bayh: ‘No Truth Whatsoever’ to Obama Challenge

Politicians with ambitions for high office never say too early that they intend to run for president. It means absolutely nothing.

Diana, I don’t think it has as much to do with his own party as it does with the muddle that the D.C. atmosphere has become and that’s more largely related to the opposition (that’s right, I’m referring to the GOP) and the political climate they’ve created. In the follow-up to an election year that saw major losses for the Right, rather than reform themselves to be better then they’ve been, they opted to stall, politicize, obstruct, and just plain _dig in their heels_ with all the impetulance of a tantrum throwing child. The GOP’s showing so far has been extremely unimpressive and it’s no wonder they aren’t making ALL of D.C. fed up w/ their antics.

I don’t thin the “muddle that the D. C. atmosphere has become” is “largely related” to the GOP. Not too long ago the democrats were blocking every judicial appointee of Pres. Bush. My hope is that Sen. Bayh’s actions are a reflection of what millions of Americans are feeling. They are angry about the fact that nothing has really changed. It is still the same deal-making, greedy, corrupt process that works towards what improves the interests of the policticians and the lobbyists that feed them. I stand here with one voice, one vote, but on the other side of the street stands a lobbyist with millions of dollars. Now who do you think the polician is going to listen in that situation. Back in the days of the Mafia, they sold protection. Now we have lobbyists selling reelection.

That, in some respects, is a solid point Roger H but more often than not, Bush got his agenda through in a largely Democrat Congress. Obama has not had similar fortune it would seem and his party is in the majority. Is it because Democrats just can’t come together? Perhaps. Is it also because the Republican party has efforted to make it as hard as they possibly can? Perhaps.
I think you probably have a very solidified answer if you combine those two ideas.

The only question is in which party will Evan Bayh run for president? He’s never really been a Democrat. Maybe he’ll give Lieberman his second chance to become vice president; this time as Republicans.

I’ve never seen the animosity towards another party that the dems have demonstrated this past year. Pelosi, Reid and Baucus have pretty much said, we’re in control, we don’t care what you want or what you think. I watched quite a bit of this wrangling on C-Span and it was astonishing to see people get slapped down like they were.
Can we have time to read the bill like we were promised?
Sign the bill and then you have all the time you want to read it.
Would you go to a mortgage lender and sign a contract without reading it? What would you do if the banker told you to just sign it and read it later.
There has been zero attempt to reach out to anyone except when it comes to reaching out for bribes for votes. Some even brag about how much their vote went for and chide others for not making better deals for theirs.
Buying votes used to be against the law. Now it is put out in the open and when people complain about it, it’s just shrugged off as those trouble makers blocking things again.
I can understand why some politicians are sick of it in both parties.
Even better, more Americans are getting sick of it and the fat cat politicians better start worrying more than the fat cat bankers.