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...chamber majorities. Anemic third parties and the fixation on factionalized agendas have merely relegated elections to an oscillation between party majorities—the stifling polarization and “factions” that George Washington warned against in his farewell address. Even insiders, like retiring Ind. Senator Evan Bayh, contest the growing inefficiencies of rampant party-line voting, confirmed by the apex of legislative inefficiency...
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...term Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh announced on Feb. 15 that he would not run for re-election this November. The popular centrist and former Hoosier State governor blamed increased partisanship, saying plainly, "I do not love Congress." Bayh's retirement, which caught his party's leaders by surprise, brings the number of open seats in the upper chamber to 11--five Democratic and six Republican...
...retiring Senator Evan Bayh wrote in an Op-Ed in this past Sunday's New York Times, "Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters." Sadly, such clarity of vision about the institution seems to come only to Senators when they are on their way out the door...
...states. In Denver, Obama flexed his fundraising muscles at a pair of events for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado before heading to Nevada, where Senate majority leader Harry Reid is locked in a bitter contest. Democrats are hoping the sojourn, which comes on the heels of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh's surprise announcement that he will not stand for re-election this fall, will bolster the campaigns of two vulnerable candidates whose races could be key in preserving the party's Senate majority, an edge that appears increasingly fragile...