GOOD BAYH!

The retirement of Evan Bayh from the Senate is curious.  Bayh cited gridlock as the main reason for his departure.  What gridlock?  With a 255 to 178 majority in the House and a supermajority in the Senate until the recent election of Scott Brown to the seat held by the late Teddy Kennedy, there should have been no problem in easily passing Obama's socialist agenda.  According to the Politico article on Bayh's departure,

Now Bayh finds himself the subject of scorn from Democrats, who accuse him of abandoning his party and his colleagues at a time when they desperately need him to help save their suddenly imperiled majority in the Senate.

Bayh never really fit into the Senate according to the Politico article.  Apparently what did Bayh in was his keynote speech in 1996 at the Democrat National Convention.  It was a yawner and put him in the category of political inertness.  Two years later his pedigree got him the Senate seat that his father Birch Bayh had held. 

Although Bayh twice made it to the short list for a Vice-Presidential nomination he was passed over.  Most recently he lost out to Joe "Plagiarizing Plugs" Biden, who along with former Senator John Warner, are perhaps the dumbest men to have ever served in the US Senate.

The biggest misconception about Bayh is that he's a moderate Democrat.  Democrats include Neo-Marxists (Obama), Stalinists (Hillary Clinton), Eurosocialists (Kerry), and Eco-kooks (Gore).  But there are no moderates in the Donkey party.  The truth is that Bayh voted for every piece of Obama's extreme legislative agenda, which even a rock would intuitively know was Neo-Marxist.  If Bayh was a moderate he certainly never voted that way.

Bayh's website states that he is for "...fiscally responsible health care reform that will not increase the federal deficit or raise taxes in ways that will cost jobs or hurt our national economy."  Yet, he still voted for the unwritten amorphous Senate Healthcare Reform bill.  According to one source, Bayh "hates the Senate (and) hates the left bloggers," said a friend of the senator who has also served as a longtime adviser.  "They are getting their wish (of) pure Democrats in the minority."  I imagine the kooks at the Daily Kos will be having seizures and foaming at the mouth when they hear that.  I also guess that means that there was a de facto party purge of sorts.

But what Bayh's retirement really proves is that America is not like the rest of the world where power is often passed forward solely on the basis of accident of birth.  While at times it may appear that there are familial political dynasties in America, Bayh's departure signals, at least for now, the end of such political dynasties. 

For the first time in years, we have Kennedy-free Congress, there are no Bushes or Clintons in elective office and that's a good thing for America.  Now if we could only have term limits then we could clean House... and the Senate.  Can you imagine a Congress free of Schumer, Boxer, Feinstein, McCain, Snowe, Collins, Frank, Rangel, Pelosi,  and Franken?  I wonder if you can.

Hungry for Change—Obama and His Mollycoddled Brown Shirt Thugs & Crooks

By now most of you have probably seen or heard on the news about 65 year old William Rice of Newbury Park, California whose finger was bitten off by an apparent ObamaCare supporter. Rice was with a small group of counter-protesters against a Wednesday night demonstration in favor of ObamaCare that was apparently coordinated by Moveon.org. Rice had gotten involved in a heated discussion with a member of the anti-war group Code Pink, according to Capt. Ross Bonfiglio; the Sheriff’s department spokes mouth. (And you thought that Code Pink only cared about the Iraq War. But hey, protest work is still work and one has to eat. This is especially true when you have no real marketable jobs skills other than being a part of a rent-a-thug cabal.)

After the argument, Rice returned to where his group was standing. A less than coherent witness to the ensuing mayhem was interviewed on September 4th edition of the Chip Franklin morning drive time radio talk show in San Diego. Franklin's assessment of the erstwhile bystander's shaky demeanor and incident description is mostly spot-on. But according to the newspaper account of the story, the fact still remains than an unidentified man walked from Moveon.org’s area toward the ObamaCare opponents and verbally confronted Rice, allegedly calling him names and acting aggressively. (No big deal. That’s just the typical irrational Liberal debating behavior and rhetorical style.) But when the Liberal Fascist head case and thug probably couldn’t make a rational argument in favor of ObamaCare, he bit Rice’s finger off. The above-mentioned witness found the bitten-off finger or rather, as Franklin would put it, "got the finger."

Most any lawyer with little or no legal research would tell you that even if Rice’s assailant asserts the legal justification of self-defense he still probably overreacted to any provocation by Rice. The general criminal law allows for the use of necessary and proportionate, non-deadly force in self-defense anytime the victim reasonably believes that unlawful force is about to be used on him. Absent a showing of aggressive or deadly force being employed by the 65 year old Rice, the perpetrator was the overbiting aggressor.

Bonfiglio said Doctors were unable to reattach Rice’s finger. One of Franklin's staff quipped, "I guess he [the perpetrator] was hungry for change." Funny line, but seriously folks the police are still looking for the perpetrator. According to above-cited the news story, the authorities do not consider the man a criminal suspect and were not looking to arrest him! According to the Sheriff's spokes mouth, “We want him to come forward so we can talk to him. We want to hear his side...” Well now, that's political ecumenity and a very understanding law enforcement protocol.

Meanwhile Black Conservative Kenneth Gladney, who was the victim of an assault by Pro ObamaCare SEIU thugs outside a health care town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6 is all but forgotten by the Lame Stream Media. So where’s the media outrage for a crime against a Conservative Black man? Little or none so far. But the arrest for disorderly conduct of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates received huge media coverage including the old standby spin of possible racial profiling by a big bad white cop. (One almost expected Kanye West to proclaim that, "Crowley hates Black people!")

Despite the fact Professor Gates was treated with great civility and superhuman restraint by the arresting officer, Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, the media raved on about racial injustice and profiling. This stagey, vile attempt at playing the race card was contrasted by the exemplary conduct of Sgt. Crowley in the aftermath. But the criminal charges against the noisy, rude, and disrespectful Professor Gates were naturally dropped. Without the privilege of being a celebrity Black Professor many of the rest of us probably would have quietly pleaded guilty and paid our fine.

But really folks, who besides a Liberal in trouble with the law ever gets such kid glove treatment? In some cases it may be a matter of professional courtesy among political crooks. For example, tax cheat of the month and House Ways and Means Committee Chair, Charlie "Tax 'em More" Rangel has escaped all IRS penalties and interest after failing to pay federal taxes on income from Caribbean resort rentals over a 10 year period. For the time being, Rangel need not give up his chairmanship or resign by the edict of House Speaker Pelosi. By the way, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who also is ultimately responsible for IRS is himself a tax cheat.

The "teachable moment" here in ObamaSpeak seems to be that anyone that commits violence or any crime in the furtherence of the Liberal agenda will be entitled to a generous benefit of the doubt. In other words there are two standards of justice in the Amerika of Obama--a lenient one for Liberals and a harsh one for anyone to the right of the revered Hubert H. Humphrey (perhaps the last really good and decent Liberal).

Looking at the Kenneth Gladney and William Rice cases, it is becoming increasingly clear that Liberal thugs may have an implied license to brutalize dissenters without regard to their First Amendment rights. Gitmo detainees were never treated this badly.