Don't Go Away Whiny, Just Go Away, Evan Bayh

Bayh's op-ed in the grey corpse today, in which he whines on and on about nothing to deflect attention from his indefensible record, is emblematic of his entire career. He goes on and on about how Congress is not friendly enough without once mentioning the corruption, the spending addiction, the generational theft, and the power grabs which have become par for the course. The problem with Congress, according to Bayh, has nothing to do with anything representatives do to their constituents, to the country, and to the unborn generations from whom they steal as a matter of policy; the problem with Congress is that representatives are not nice enough to each other.

In Bayh's universe, the fact that he is polite, friendly, and never utters an unkind word about anyone actually excuses his entire voting record. He is wrong. Americans, if anything, would enjoy less politeness and more honesty in Congress. Think 'Prime Ministers Questions' on CSPAN. Who doesn't love that? We would not care if our representatives regularly brawled out back after sessions.

In the future, Mr. Bayh, try to deal in facts, not feelings. Americans do not want whiny, nancified leaders who exploit antiquated and misplaced notions of manners in order to shut down discussion. Congress is not your grandmother's dinner table. You are there to debate substantive issues and do what we want.

The purpose of Bayh's op-ed was obviously to provide political cover for his disgraceful record, which has been particularly despicable of late. ObamaKare is still moving through Congress, and regardless of Bayh's evasive doubletalk in response to every question about it, he has not only been 100% behind it every step of the way, but he is just as corrupt as his co-sleazes Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln, if not worse.

While he most likely (but not certainly) did not wrangle us Hoosiers some sweetheart deal, he stands to make a personal fortune from ObamaKare. The mandate would be an enormous boost to Wellpoint, an insurance company with a particularly egregious record in Indiana, on whose board his wife sits. Where do greedy insurance companies meet Bolshevik plots? The Bayhs' bank account. This should offend everyone.

And he still pushed for an alcohol tax to fund Jokerkare.

And he, like everyone who voted for JokerKare, is in bed with ACORN.

Perhaps Bayh's conscience spurred him to write his op-ed, because I genuinely believe him to be a nice guy. But his "content-free populist rhetoric" does not erase his record. In fact, it is the problem with Washington. Congress needs to admit its mistakes, its problems, its failures, and it must work to fix them because they are destroying our country. Misidentifying the problem and rambling on and on about essentially nothing accomplishes nothing. Bayh has done that for the last 25 years. It is not acceptable to be "agnostic" about an unconstitutional federal usurpation of 1/6 of the U.S. economy and come out strong against unfriendliness.

The one thing he did say in his op-ed was that the party machines should now be publicly subsidized to counter private contributions, which is basically another way of robbing taxpayers to augment political slush funds because the free market and the First Amendment (i.e., the will of the people whom his job consists of representing) keep getting in the way of his party's policies.

Congress and state legislators should also consider incentives, including public matching funds for smaller contributions, to expand democratic participation and increase the influence of small donors relative to corporations and other special interests.

He wants us to pay for his campaigns like taxpayers do in North Korea, Venezuela, Egypt, Iran, and other nations with leaders who think like him. He also wants to take our guns away so that when ACORN rigs our elections and they turn out like they do Iran we can be suppressed like the Iranians.

Pre-emptively calling me "mean" for stating the facts will not stop me from doing just that. We need leaders who will honestly acknowledge problems and work to fix them, not whine about nothing of any consequence to anyone outside of Congress.

That only works in one context: at home. Quell your infighting and discuss nothing politely amongst those with whom doing so is actually productive. Just go home and stay there, Evan Bayh.

Providence has given Evan Bayh a unique opportunity to actually do his job one time. His job is to do what we want him to, and what that is right now is to just fade into the background and never reemerge. Let us hope that he does not once again do absolutely the worst possible thing every step of the way and then whine about nothing in public again. I regard that annoying and evasive tactic, like Evan Bayh's entire career, as betrayal of one's constituents. Evan Bayh never represented Hoosiers. He only represented himself. And he continues to.