Double G Versus Evan F'ckin Bayh

In today's must-read, Glenn Greenwald rips Evan F'ckin Bayh a new one over Bayh's bloodthirsty war hawk stance on Iran and Afghanistan, and yes, virtually every other stance Bayh has taken in his career as a "Democratic" Senator.

It's impossible to find a more perfectly representative face for the rotted Washington establishment than Evan Bayh.  He is the pure expression of virtually every attribute that makes the Beltway so dysfunctional, deceitful and corrupt.

Bayh wants to send other people into every proposed war he can find and keep them there forever ever without ever bearing any of the costs himself -- not in military service for him or his family nor even in higher taxes to pay for his glorious wars.  Sacrifice is for everyone other than Evan Bayh and his friends.  He runs around praising himself as a "deficit hawk" while recklessly supporting wars and indefinite occupations that the country can't afford and which drive us further into debt.  He feigns concern over the "deficit" only when it comes time to deny ordinary Americans benefits which he and his family already possess in abundance.  He is a loyal servant to the insurance and health care industries over his own constituents -- as his wife sits on the Boards of numerous health care giants, who, right when Bayh became a Senator, began paying her millions of dollars in cash and stock.  And this Sermonizer of Personal Responsibility is the ultimate by-product of nepotism, following faithfully and effortlessly in the footsteps of his Daddy-Senator, whose seat he now occupies.  The fact that he's a Democrat -- and was Obama's close-second choice for Vice President -- just underscores how bipartisan these afflictions are.

When the sad and destructive history of the U.S. over the last decade is written, the coddled, nepotistic, self-serving face of Evan Bayh should be prominently included.  It embodies virtually every cause.

Now, I've long had my problems with Evan F'ckin Bayh, he's earned the StupidiTag several times over with his Republican Lite/John McCain act.  Indeed, Bayh was floated as Obama's Veep, which I said at the time would have been a disaster.

In a way it's almost nice to see Bayh has been nothing but repeated problems over the last year for Obama.  At the same time, Bayh has been a de facto Republican for years and has already negatively affected legislation in the Senate.  For all intents and purposes Bayh should have an R after his name.

Unfortunately there's just no serious challenge to Bayh in the primary, for all the reasons Glenn listed.  We're stuck with the guy...or a potential worse Republican senator.  There's a reason why the GOP isn't trying too particularly hard to unseat Bayh.  What I want to know is why Indiana progressives aren't trying.