Senator Evan Bayh’s departure sparks debate about partisanship in Congress – washingtonpost.com

Sen. Evan Bayh’s surprise decision not to seek reelection touched off a debate Tuesday among strategists and scholars about whether the Indiana senator’s depiction of the “brain dead” politics and hyper-partisanship of Congress is accurate or overblown — and, if accurate, whether walking away was the right decision.

via Senator Evan Bayh’s departure sparks debate about partisanship in Congress – washingtonpost.com.

I just love the predictability of the Washington Post.  If you want the establishment take on a story, they are the go to paper.  This article on Sen. Bayh’s decision not to seek re-election to the Senate is exhibit A of the paper’s inability to see this as anything but a new twist to the horse-race reporting of, “how does this story fit into the narrative of the Democrats falling apart, the Republicans surging and Obama losing control of his agenda.”

In fact, the real story is Bayh’s plea for the voters to “deliver a “shock” to Congress by voting incumbents out en masse and replacing them with people interested in reforming the process and governing for the good of the people, rather than deep-pocketed special-interest groups.” You can bet that the Washington Post does NOT want to go there.  But apparently Sen. Bayh does want us to go there.  This is a man who grew up with his father in the Senate.  He has witnessed this political body throughout many years and he is fed up.  Sounds like I should get in touch with him about joining the NOTA movement.

Unfortunately Sen. Bayh makes the mistake of thinking that a change in personnel will somehow solve the problem.  It won’t.  A system as corrupt as ours has become will just co-opt the next “reformers.”  Until citizens retake the mechanisms for decision-making through elections our desire for “heroes” to save us will remain unrequited, and deservedly so.

Sen Bayh, whether you know it or not, I consider you a part of the NOTA Nation.

RadicalNOTA

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