[UPDATE: Spelling, grammatical, and factual errors fixed. Hey — it WAS my birthday!]
When we get rid of all the incumbents it won’t really matter, but it is interesting that Evan Bayh decided to go when his campaign fund was topped up to the tune of $13 mil. And, guess what? The Federal elections Elections Commission has ruled that, if you quit politics, whatever is in your campaign fund is yours to keep. or, in the case of Bayh, $13 million.
But … he said he quit because of partisan wrangling. He was elected as a what? Democrat? His father was elected as a what? Democrat? The family has held an elective seat in Washington since shortly after Caesar crossed the Rubicon as a ? Democrat?
OK. There’s two generations of partisan electing. You and your father. So don’t, don’t insult my intelligence by complaining about partisanship. Don’t. Just go away quietly, and don’t give us any parting shots about how Congress hasn’t made any jobs. Take your $13 million lagniappe with you. Nice chunk. You’d have to make close to $40 mil to keep that much. Nice bonus even by Goldman Sachs standards. And, please — Congress can’t make jobs. People hire people because they believe they are going to help them in some way, not because Congress told them to.
Funny how partisans always blame partisanship for failure as they ride off into the sunset, their saddle bags packed with loot.
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