When he first announced that he was stepping down from the United States Senate, Evan Bayh cited a lot of high-minded reasons for the decision. So high-minded was his talk that Ezra Klein was moved to remark that “Evan Bayh might have been an ordinary politician, but he’s proving an extraordinary retiree.’ It turned out, however, that his main plan was to get rich as a lobbyist. Today we learn that he’ll also be acquiring a secondary gig as a conservative television pundit…
Note that there’s considerable synergy between Bayh’s job at McGuireWoods LLP and his Fox gig. This way business enterprises hoping for regulatory favors or subsidies from the federal government can hire McGuireWoods not only to take advantage of Bayh’s influence and knowledge on the Hill, they’ll also be gaining on on-air television spokesman, presumably one whose client affiliations won’t be disclosed to the viewing public. And since as best we can tell Fox has no journalistic standards, it’ll be an ideal venue for peddling whatever nonsense he likes.
Evan Bayh is no "Republicrat," he's a Blue Dog Democrat. That's the problem with the evolving Northeastern Democrats, they ignore the 'big-tent' aspect of the Party. Sadly, guys like Evan Bayh, Brad Ellsworth, Joe Donnelly, and other solid Hoosier Blue Dogs are fewer and farther between. The DLC is also crumbling. It looks like the moderate wing of the Democratic Party is weakening quickly.
Evan Bayh was a good fit for his conservative constituency, much like how Scott Brown is a good fit for his more liberal constituency. If you want to be a national party, you can't demand ideological purity.
Isn't that what you'd say about the Republican Party and its crusade against moderates like Mike Castle of Delaware?
Or are you just a partisan hack who can't say anything nice about the other side, ever?
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