Senator Evan Bayh from Indiana is a centrist democrat and he, along with others are not planning on running for re-election. According to an article from CNN, Bayh feels that “Congress is not operating as it should,” and that “there’s too much partisanship, the people’s business is not getting done.” Bayh claims also claims he is “not motivated by strident partisanship or ideology.” Centrists are being pressured not only by the president, but also by the left flank of Congress. Bayh is frustrated with the Senate’s inability to work in a bipartisan manner; therefore also unhappy with what little is being done. Centrists are being abused by the furthest left elements of the Democratic Party attempting to impose their will on the rest of the country. Senator Bayh, along with Senator Dodd from Connecticut, and Sen. Byron Dorgan from non-existent North Dakota are all fed up with Congress. They all plan to not run for re-election.
Reducing the deficit is on the forefront of Bayh’s agenda, and is also on President Obama’s agenda as well. What centrists are not happy about is the left liberal’s inability to cooperate. Leftist liberals are being selfish and wanting to run congress their way, and they are abusing centrist democrats for leaning a little bit more to the right on these issues. Bayh wants the budget to be reduced but the left liberals aren’t cooperating to form a plan to get it done. A reason democrats could be trying to lean more to the left is because they are following suit of the Republican Party. The Republican Party in the past has been more on the conservative side, than democrats have been on the liberal side. The democrats just could be trying to compete with the Republican Party.
I believe that the Democratic Party is doing something wrong here. I don’t know why they are being such bullies to fellow democrats when they should be cooperating with them. If they want this health care reform bill to be passed, they should be working with their fellow democrats to form policies and ideas they can all agree with. Cooperation is also needed with the republicans. I think Bayh is right in thinking that something NEEDS to be done to reduce the deficit and that congress should strengthen bipartisan efforts. Overall I feel that the Democratic Party is going to regret doing this when elections come up next fall.
The problem with this country is BOTH the Democrats and Republicans. Anyone who seriously thinks that one side isn’t corrupt or slaves to Corporate America hasn’t done an adequate job of paying attention. To the Republicans: The GW administration will go down in History as one of the worst administrations. They eroded your constitutional rights, expanded the power of the wealthy elite, invaded countries under false pretenses, destroyed diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, and spent money like it was going out of style. To the Democrats: Obama is a dud. He promised much and has turned out to be another corporate lackey. He made deals with big pharma to ensure you could not get your medication cheaper elsewhere, he flip flopped on military tribunals, he refuses to fix health care properly through nationalization or single payer, he populates his inner circle with more Wall Street insiders, he spends money on bailouts and useless stimulus packages.