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(WOIO) - Indiana Senator Evan Bayh said bye-bye this week to his senate seat in Congress shocking both his constituents and his colleagues by announcing he won't run for re-election.
The senator, by way of explanation, said he loved public service but did not love Congress. Capitol Hill pundits immediately estimated that Bayh - who is a Democrat - had really quit because he didn't want to face voter anger over his support of Obama administration policies. Others, supposedly in the know, speculated that Bayh might actually mount a campaign to take the democratic nomination from Obama in 2012.
But I take Bayh at his word. In his goodbye speech he said, "There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress; too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving." Bayh's decision comes just a month or so after two other prominent democrats … Senator Dodd of Connecticut and Senator Dorgan of North Dakota… also announced that they wouldn't seek re-election. Things must be bad if even the politicians are sick of Washington.
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