Story of the day - why Evan Bayh is a p*ssy part 36...

So in the mass exodus from the apparently self-imposed prison Congress appears to be, Senator Evan Bayh (which means "Dick Hole" in the native Estonian) did a shock-announcement usually reserved for gay or philandering governors or forthcoming indicted politicians, and declared that although he's been plastering his mug around the pundit programs saying he will run for a third term, he is retiring from the Senate after this term.

“Congress is just dysfunctional. It is not getting the people’s business done nearly the way it should. I kept hoping that things would get better; that we’d be getting more done. And it just has not been happening,” Bayh, 54, told reporters this afternoon.

Later, he added: “I was not a creature of a legislative body before I went there, so perhaps other people would have a greater tolerance for that sort of thing than I do.”

Oh, honey, please. The lady doth protest.

Since President Obama's election (and most revealingly his snub of not being selected for Vice Prez), Bayh has turned into the Senate's loudest "concern troll", bellowing the lack of supposed bipartisanship that the Administration has been overtrying for anyway, to becoming the Democratic Senator with the most votes out of line with the Obama team. His most blatant trolling came at the expense of the HealthCare Reform movement, which Bayh has such a glaring conflict of interest with his wife, who just so happens to sit on the board of Directors of WellPoint. Who is WellPoint? Well it's just one of the nation's largest for-profit insurnce companies. One that just happened to be in the news briefly for planning to jack up rates on California customers by up to 39%.

Holy fuck.

So.

It just so happens that Bayh makes this turn-around bombshell on the eve of the filing deadline for the Democratic primary. Since even his staff were fullspeed on Bayh's campaign, there is no practical last-minute challenger that can come up with the creds to file. Per the filing rules that Americablog posted, the deadline is noon tomorrow. Tomorrow. Arguments that this both hurts Democrats, since if no one files, the State Dem Party chooses the candidate, or helps, since it keeps any last-minute GOP candidates like the foul Mike Pence (see my "himbot" article from earlier), and Bayh was way out-polling the existing challengers anyway. Now either way, Bayh's a douche. Touting the benefits of not having a primary so works against my democratic principles, besides the fact that he's talking shit. After pulling a backstab in proclaiming the election of Scott Brown a sign our party has "moved too far to the left". (Seriously? WTF? Seriously?) After raising 13 million dollars for a campaign that will not happen. After plans made for commericals and press meetings for the campaign right up to the announcement.

There has been speculation that Bayh is positioning himself for a presidential run, but unless he tries a reinvention, quitters don't sit well with many outside the Republican "forget our past" party".

Whatever he does, hopefully it'll be away from the public eye, because he's a self-serving attention hound that perpetually is trying to be queen of the hop. And darling, that's Joe Lieberman's gig.