Evan Bayh Retirement

Is Bayh's Real Problem Sports Partisanship?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert S. McElvaine

Has anyone considered that there could be a simple explanation of why Evan Bayh decided not to seek reelection? Could it be that the partisanship he really objected was in sports, rather than politics?

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Evan Bayh Gets Grilled On 'The View,' Is Told He 'Sounds Like Sarah Palin'

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Politicians frequently appear on national talk shows when they're running for office, but Sen. Evan Bayh, the retiring Democratic senator from Indiana...

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For Me, the Party Is Over

Michael Smerconish | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Smerconish

The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters.

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Evan Bayh: Why I'm Leaving The Senate

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the Amer...

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Moment of Truth

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Kuttner

March 2010 will either be remembered as the month when the scales fell from Barack Obama's eyes and he realized that the bipartisan fantasy, given the current Republican Party, is a fool's errand.

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Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Engelhardt

Why does the military of a country convinced it's becoming ungovernable think itself so capable of making another ungovernable country governable?

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Jason Linkins

David Broder Fails To Correctly Place Blame For Bayh's Departure

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Broder comes to the pages of the Washington Post today, carrying a brief for Evan Bayh, and performing his usual operatic lament about the lack ...

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Bipartisan Blight III: Evan Bayh Bye

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert L. Borosage

The substance of Evan Bayh's bipartisan policies that were enacted helped get us into the mess we are in, and are making it harder to get out of it.

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Evan Bayh's Retirement Sets Off Debate About Partisanship In Washington

The Washington Post | Dan Balz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Evan Bayh's surprise decision not to seek reelection touched off a debate Tuesday among strategists and scholars about whether the Indiana senato...

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Green News Report -- February 16, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Buh-bye, Evan Bayh; Supertrains for China, not so much for the U.S.; Freeways cause heart attacks...

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Tamyra D'Ippolito: The 'Machine' Is Trying To Silence Me

Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the wake of Evan Bayh's decision to retire, there's been a fair amount of hand-wringing among Dems over the possiblity that a little-known cafe-own...

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Bill Maher: 'Corporatist' Evan Bayh Is What's Wrong With Senate (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Evan Bayh is not a centrist, he's a corporatist, according to Bill Maher. Maher appeared on "Anderson Cooper 360" Tuesday night to comment on the sta...

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Evan Bayh's Last Chance to Put Your Money Where His Mouth Is

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Boyce

Poor Evan. His wife was pocketing a million plus a year from health care boards and in the good old days, no one would have known, but now, it's just so sad, people think that that is somehow buying a senator.

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Jason Linkins

What Did The Senate Do To Make Evan Bayh Sad, Anyway?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the weird things about Sen. Evan Bayh's (D-Ind.) sudden decision to quit the Senate, and frag it as dysfunctional on the way out the door, is t...

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Evan Bayh Presidential Run Chances? '"None, Whatsoever.'

AP/ The Huffington Post | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll down for video of Bayh on 'Morning Joe' WASHINGTON — Two-term Sen. Evan Bayh says ever-shriller partisanship and the frustrations of gri...

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A Thought on Evan Bayh and Partisan America

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Reich

Anger makes good television, but it's fake and it teaches Americans the wrong lessons. Anger also can win elections, but partisan anger is just as fake, and it undermines the functionality of our democracy.

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Arthur Delaney

Evan Bayh Won't Rule Out Becoming A Lobbyist After His Term Ends

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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A day after he announced his retirement from the U.S. Senate, Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh declined to rule out a career as a lobbyist. "I have no idea...

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Jason Linkins

Evan Bayh Rails Against Stimulus Package That He Wanted Made Less Effective

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evan Bayh, who does deserve praise for his announced plan to reduce the Congressional Deficit Peacock Caucus by one member, has rankled his fellow Dem...

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Evan Bayh's Very Long 2009

Matt Sledge | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Sledge

More than Bayh's dimming political prospects, my guess is that what got to Bayh was the distinctly personal tone of the attacks on his wife, Susan.

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