Bayh refuses to name anonymous members of his new Blue-Dog style coalition.

[burythehatchet]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/bayh-witness-protection/

This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) officially announced the creation of his new Blue-Dog style coalition of approximately 15 “moderate” Democratic senators. As Roll Call explained last week, members of the group “acknowledge that they are seeking to restrain the influence of party liberals.” During his announcement, host Joe Scarborough asked Bayh who is in the new coalition. Bayh said that while a press release on the group’s creation included the names of 12 senators, there are “three or four” who don’t want to be identified:

SCARBOROUGH: This is great! Can you tell us who’s in it?

BAYH: Well there are about 12 of us on the press release and then there are three or four who we are putting in the witness protection program, who attend our meetings but don’t want to be publicly identified yet.

VIDEO AT LINK

[Solly Mack]

1. How brave!

snicker

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. bayh is an asshole. its people like him who did a lot of harm to clinton's liberal agenda

and i hope to god he doesnt get to fuck up obama's agenda.

[ClarkUSA]

3. Who does he think he is? Dick Cheney? What a conservative asswipe Bayh is.

[burythehatchet]

5. Modern Centrist = Conservative Asswipe

:thumbsup:

[Taverner]

9. He's not a centrist. Obama is a centrist. Clinton is a centrist. He's just a Conservative

[ClarkUSA]

10. Obama is not a centrist. He's a pragmatic liberal/progressive. Bayh and Clinton are DLC darlings.

But that's neither here nor there.

[aquart]

12. As usual, someone has to make this Hillary's fault.

Stuff it.

[ClarkUSA]

14. WTF are you talking about? Did you even read my post?

You're refighting the primaries. I've moved on. Try to do the same before you mouth off again.

[cboy4]

33. LOL

:thumbsup:

[ClarkUSA]

38. Oh, here's another one who is still fighting the primary wars, if only with sniggering.

Guess it's tough to get over the taste of bitter, eh? :eyes:

[cboy4]

40. Actually I couldn't be happier..Hillary is secretary of state,

beating out that back-stabber Bill Richardson.

I'm perfectly at peace. LOL

[Taverner]

13. Bayh is anti-choice, pro-Iraq (still), a taxophobe, anti-evolution and pro abstinence

Clinton is none of those things

[ClarkUSA]

15. Links, quotes, proof?

[Taverner]

17. Just Wiki him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh#Abortion

As for Hillary, if you think she's any of those things, you haven't been paying attention

Oh and I think we've proved that DLC =/= Fascist

Howard Dean, Al Gore and John Edwards were all in the DLC

[ClarkUSA]

20. lol! Thought so. You keep harping on Bayh vis-a-vis Hillary, not me. I could care less.

I stand by my statement: Both of them are DLC darlings. He was a DLC Chairman and Hillary's a member AND Bill was a DLC
Chairman. Bayh was Hillary's top campaign surrogate during 2008. The DLC is one big happy family minus Barack, who's
denied being DLC after Al From tried to BS him into membership via a news report in 2007.

[Taverner]

22. So was Howard Dean. Are you going to call him an asswipe too?

DLC means NOTHING. It was a tool the blue dogs used in the 90's to distance themselves from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It failed. See 1994-2004

It amazes me at how many people hate Hillary Clinton. Is it because she's a strong woman? Does she intimidate you?

Or are you still holding on to her stupid, fucked up IWR vote? Kerry voted for that too btw...

[ClarkUSA]

24. Dean stopped being DLC awhile ago. He's allowed to come to his senses. Some never do.

[Taverner]

25. DLC died a long time ago. It failed. End of story

I think the real enemies are not the Clintons (so put down that copy of American Spectator,) not the ex-DLCers, but the Liebermans and Bayhs of the Congress.

[ClarkUSA]

26. Really? Fact: Bill Clinton, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh are all former DLC Chairmen.

Bill Clinton ended up being president for two terms while Joementum and Bayh are still alive and kicking, as is the DLC,
which has morphed into euphemistic organizations of many fanciful names.

No one said "the real enemies are... the Clintons" so stop refighting the primaries. I am stating facts... wish I could say
the same of you.

[Taverner]

27. Yes and what happened in between 1994-2004?

Joe Lieberman lost the pres election, then lost the nomination in 2004

Bill Clinton was the only real "victory" of the DLC, and even then, DLC was more of a look than a set of policies.

[ClarkUSA]

28. The DLC is not "dead". They still have plenty of adherents like Bayh, Lieberman and the Clintons.

Look at their membership list at their website. It's very long... unfortunately.

[Taverner]

30. And they have a lot of people who are just on that list

DLC =/= PNAC

[ClarkUSA]

34. My point is that I disagree with you that the DLC is "dead".

[Taverner]

35. Agree to disagree then...this isn't going anywhere

[ClarkUSA]

11. That's right.

:thumbsup:

[Epiphany4z]

4. That is just a bit twisted

they must be really proud of what they are doing :sarcasm:

[nc4bo]

6. Rats in the corn.

So I guess we can consider these people the new, improved DLC?

[burythehatchet]

8. This is the ultimate definition of whore. They see the margin of the Dem majority

an assemble enough whores to try and grab power.

[OHdem10]

7. Secret Committees--wheweee.

Sounds as if he has a bunch of weasels. I think many of us
can guess.

[FriendlyReminder]

16. I think he is up for re-election in 2010. He needs to be taken out in the Primaries

[Jokerman]

21. Extremely doubtful.

He is very popular in Indiana and can raise the big bucks.

He's playing to the republicans who make up a large part of his base.

I'd gladly support a real dem against him in the primary but he'll win it anyway.

[FriendlyReminder]

36. That's a shame.

[NorthCarolina]

18. Don't constituents have a right to know what groups their legislators belong to? n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. It's disturbing that some on this board were actually hoping this tool would be Vice President.

Does anybody believe this asshole could even get away with calling himself a "democrat" if he wasn't Birch Bayh's kid.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. Show him some "love" here --

I did, and it felt great. :)

131 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
[phone]
[phone] fax

[Skidmore]

29. I'd never really seen Bayh smile broadly before he did on Morning Joe

and it was creepy when he did. Evan Bayh is one of a few Dems for whom I have no fond feelings or respect.

[riona]

31. Related article with names

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19587.html

[Pastiche423]

41. Thanks for the link to some of the repubic lites

Ben Nelson
Bill Nelson
Mary L. Landrieu
Evan Bayh
Mark Begich
Mark Warner
Mark Pryor
Amy Klobuchar
Jeanne Shaheen
Robert P. Casey
Blanche L. Lincoln
Joseph I. Lieberman

Don't know the names of those that are too chickshit to admit it.

[riona]

42. Another article

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/18/1841651.aspx

"Here's part of a statement to be released very shortly from Bayh... The group will focus "on the upcoming budget negotiations and the importance of passing a fiscally responsible spending plan in the Senate."

More: "Leading the new group are Democratic Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Tom Carper of Delaware and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas... thers joining the group are Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Udall of Colorado, and Mark Warner of Virginia."

[Me.]

32. Yet Another Secret Cabal In Gov.

Their votes will out them

[MadHound]

37. More machinations of the two party/same corporate master system of government

It is becoming increasingly obvious for those who choose to see that corporate America has taken over both parties, and is using them to keep us all under control. The differences between the two are primarily cosmetic, with little difference on the substantive issues.

[spanone]

39. fuck him, so he's gonna split the democrats.....fuck him

scarborough was wetting his pants this am