Since I cannot read minds, I cannot say why Bayh is dragging his heals on health care. It may be that he is afraid on Republican TV ads. But it seems more likely that he is simply protecting his wife’s gig and as a member of the board of directors of Wellpoint.
Our good friends at Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan are doing their best to alert the people of Indiana to Bayh’s conflict of interest.
Bayh is up for reelection in 2010. As of now he has no credible primary challenger and will likely draw only weak Republican opposition. Bayh is hugely popular in Indiana, partly because as long as he had presidential ambitions he voting record was merely conservative as opposed to baldly crony kleptocratic.
I think Indiana is one of the few places that present us with the opportunity to elect a liberal third party candidate, especially if a credible Republican opponent emerges. Bayh and the Republican would divide the conservative vote and the liberal candidate would have the liberal vote to himself.
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I'm sure you'll be fighting the good fight wherever.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
oh dear
what sarah said.
Good wishes
and, yeah, what Sarah said.
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