“There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress,” The Senator was quoted as saying during his formal announcement in Indianapolis. “All of this and much more has led me to believe that there are better ways to serve my fellow citizens.”
He cited two examples of policy he feels demonstrates the nation’s partisan divide. One bill that would have created a commission to tackle the nation’s debt had bipartisan support but failed in a Senate vote last month. The other piece of legislation, the Senate’s jobs bill, is now also in question.
He said that the guys who endorsed a bill ultimately voted against it – I don’t understand how this is some big surprise to anyone; isn’t that politics?
Bayh pointed out his strong relationship with the state’s senior senator, Republican Richard Lugar, as an example of how things should work in Congress.
“If Washington, D.C., could be more like Indiana,” Bayh said, “Washington would be a better place.”
“As a nation, we are currently headed badly off course; the people of Indiana want to change that and want to be heard in Washington,” Coats said in a statement. “I will continue to make the case throughout the state that I am in the strongest position to get there and fight for all Hoosiers and all Americans.”
Now, I don’t know much about Indiana, but I do like wheat and corn, and chicken, beef and pork – I don’t even know if that stuff even comes from there. But, I do know that it is pretty weak of this guy to quit – as if he didn’t know the politics would suffocate his idealism?
And, now the country should be more like Indiana? I’m sure there some secrets the Hoosiers don’t want shared with the rest of the country.
The sad part is that everything that Bayh says are his reasons for quitting are the very reasons we need him to stay – the bad guys win again!
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