Apparently Bayh was responsible for Obama’s success

Yup who knew? Surely Birch, pictured below, cannot be happy with his spawn’s lack of principle.

He has sent us an email (reproduced in full here). Explaining how they did it together.

Dear Hoosier Democrat:

Last November, Indiana made history by voting to put a Democrat in the White House for the first time in nearly a half century.

In choosing Barack Obama to lead our country during a time of extraordinary economic upheaval, Hoosiers sent a clear message: America is ready for a leader committed to taking bold action to protect American jobs and restore our middle class.

Today is Barack Obama’s 100th day in office. As someone who campaigned across our state for his election, I have been proud to work with President Obama to support middle class families. Together, we have made encouraging progress in the opening months of the new administration:

- We passed the most ambitious economic recovery package since the Great Depression, which will save or create millions of private sector jobs and put tens of thousands of Hoosiers back to work.

- We provided long-overdue relief for the middle class: enacting tax breaks for 95 percent of working Americans, passing measures to make college more affordable, extending health care coverage to millions more uninsured children of working families, making critical investments in renewable energy and K-12 education, and enacting a law guaranteeing equal pay for equal work for America’s working women.

- We have taken bold action to deal with the crisis in our credit markets with programs to get credit flowing again to small businesses, homeowners and students.

- And we have set in motion a process to address the legacy of the reckless speculation on Wall Street that has crippled lending, including badly needed financial regulatory reforms.

President Obama was elected to lead in challenging times. The last time our country faced a crisis of this magnitude was 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sent to Washington with a broad mandate to pull our country out of the Depression. Within 100 days, he passed a series of economic reforms to restore faith in our markets and confidence in our country. Every president since has been evaluated against him for what they’ve been able to accomplish in their “first hundred days.”

There are many miles to go. But in 100 days, President Obama has charted a bold new direction for our country that holds promise for a more prosperous future. I will continue to work with him on behalf of middle-class Hoosier families to restore the American dream.

Sincerely,

Evan Bayh

Paid for and authorized by the
Evan Bayh Committee
One North Capitol, Suite 200
Indianapolis, IN 46204
www.evanbayh.com

Now this is absolutely hilarious. does Bayh think that people have already forgotten his pathetic little power grab?


Remember this wonderful statement where our non to bright senator states that he will have to work against Obama to stop the Republican’s from working against him. That was the house of cards that the much trumpeted and now all but forgotten Conservadem movement was based on. He and his band of merry men and women were really trying to help Obama, not build themselves a power base for future political ambition.

The stakes are too high for Democrats to fear a policy debate. Such debates produce better legislation. On nearly all important votes, a supermajority of 60 senators will be needed to pass legislation. Without Democratic moderates working to find common ground with reasonable Republicans, the president’s agenda could well be filibustered into oblivion.

The fact that he is now trying to bask in the reflected glory of Obama’s largely successful and generally approved of first hundred days is shabby to put it mildly. I really do hope that this little embarrassment finally persuades Bayh that he is not presidential material, that naked ambition is not enough, that more is required than a desire for the position. Bayh has no politics other than the politics of his own career.

See at the bottom of the email where it says www.evanbayh.com? well click on that and you end up at:
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/326. Now there would be nothing wrong with saying visit my website then linking to the ActBlue donation page but the use of the www and the .com indicates that you will go to a different place. A small bit of misdirection but it says a lot about the man.

Bayh is up for election in the coming midterms, I would much rather spend time and money defeating Republicans but if a half decent primary challenger emerges they will get all of our resources. We now have Democrats so it is time to work for better Democrats.

P.S. Specter’s moment of self serving clarity that caused him to transfer over to team Dem completely removes Bayh’s claimed reason for the Conservadems existence. They will now be filibuster proof as soon as Franken is seated. So Bayh has proved his complete lack of tactical awareness yet again – pure schadenfreude.