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RUSH: Well, I continue to be amused here, ladies and gentlemen, watching the left freak out over the resignation of Evan Bayh of Indiana from the Senate. Lee Siegel, one of the lead columnists at The Daily Beast (a senior columnist out there): ‘Evan Bayh\u2019s Shameful Retreat — The perennial veep shortlister bashed Congress in announcing his retirement. What if… he\u2019d taken responsibility for it?\u2019 ‘What a terrible mediocrity this man is. He leaves the Senate he served in loftily spewing contempt for its members\u2019 selfishness and spinelessness, even as he demonstrates those precise qualities in his decision to turn tail and run.\u2019 Evan ‘Bayh seems to have a very different reason for cutting and running than the specter of ignominious defeat. The times demand leaders, fighters, principled tacticians and creative conceptualizers. Bayh\u2019s response? In that case, I\u2019m outta here! …\u2019At a press conference held a few hours later, he added, ‘The people\u2019s business is not getting done.\u2019 In other words, Bayh\u2019s reason for leaving politics sounded exactly like the contemporary voter\u2019s reason for disdaining politics: Congress stinks and the government is dysfunctional. Yet there\u2019s a difference between Bayh and the average voter. Bayh is a professional politician and the nature of politics is fighting uphill battles. … So when Evan Bayh — a golden boy who virtually inherited his Senate seat from his father, Birch Bayh, has never lost an election, and is considered presidential material — presents as the reason for his withdrawal from the Senate the polarized environment and intractable loggerheads of our current politics, you wonder just what kind of politician he has ever been.\u2019 We have some Evan Bayh bites. We have three of them. He was on MessNBC today and question: ‘The New York Post speculating you\u2019re going to run for president in the Democrat primary against Obama. Can you be Shermanesque today, rule that out and say there are no circumstances when you run for president in 2012?\u2019<\/p>\n

BAYH: General Sherman was a wimp —<\/p>\n

HOST: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

BAYH: — when it came, uh, to making declarative statements. Yes, I will go beyond, uh, General Sherman. Uh, you know, I\u2019ve — I\u2019ve tried that before, as you know, and fortunately I\u2019m back on my medication now and not —<\/p>\n

HOST: Uh, heh, heh, heh.<\/p>\n

VOICE: So you\u2019ll absolutely rule out there are no circumstances under which you\u2019ll run for president as a Democrat or an independent in 2012?<\/p>\n

BAYH: None whatsoever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back on CNN this morning John Roberts said, ‘You said that you love public service but you don\u2019t like Congress. Well, what\u2019s your assessment? Is Congress, in its current iteration, broken?\u2019<\/p>\n

BAYH: We\u2019ve got a lot of good people in Congress but they are trapped in a dysfunctional system. Uh, we need some real reform here because — as I said in your clip — the public\u2019s business is just not getting done — and, uh, at a time of desperate need for our country. So, uh, we gotta vote out the ideologues who are unwilling to accept half a loaf rather than none; and we\u2019ve gotta, you know, vote out the partisans who care more about their political fortunes than the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well what the hell are you doing by cutting-and-running? Let me tell you something, folks — and this is essential that everybody understand. He says, ‘The public\u2019s business is just not getting done.\u2019 Au contraire! The public\u2019s business is getting done. The public, by wide margins, wants no part of the Obama agenda. The public by wide margins, now that they see it, don\u2019t want any part of the Democrat Party agenda; and so they are stopping it in whatever way they can. The Democrats… I continue to marvel at this guy talking about gridlock and the lack of bipartisanship. Senator, your party had 60 seats and you still have 59. The only gridlock is on your side of the aisle. Ideologues? We need to get rid of the ideologues? We don\u2019t want half of the Obama agenda, Senator. The people of this country do not want one-tenth of the Obama agenda! That\u2019s what this is all about. The dirty little secret is the people\u2019s business is getting done, and it is remarkable to see. It is heartwarming to see. Here\u2019s Bayh ripping on Obama\u2019s Porkulus plan.<\/p>\n

BAYH: Maggie, I would tell you but I don\u2019t know. Uh, I\u2019m going to, uh — what we call in Indiana in basketball I\u2019m going to — play until the — the final — the final, uh, second ticks off the clock and, uh, then think about what\u2019s next. If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I could create…? Is the White House going to have a rapid response to this? Retiring Democrat Senator Evan Bayh says not one job has been created in the last six months and he\u2019s going to go try to create a job — just one — in the private sector. How are they going to respond to this at the new rapid response team in the office of Robert Gibbs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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