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It reads like an anti-Hollywood movie.
It's not "High Noon" where Gary Cooper stands alone against a crew of gunslinging criminals aiming to gun him down.
Nor is it "Seven Samurai" (or it's Western equivilent, The Magnificent Seven) when seven warriors defend a hamlet against maurauding bandits with no reward except a roof over their heads and a few bowls of rice a day.
It certainly isn't Shakespeare's "Henry V". On the morning of the Battle of Agincort the English were outnumbered 5 to 1. When the cousin of the King, Westmoreland, wishes for more men Henry declares, "No, my fair cousin; If we are marked to die, we are enow (enough) To do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honour."
Courage in the face of impossible odds. Grim faced stoicism knowing that the only reward one will receive is the knowledge that they did the right thing.
This is not one of those stories.
Evan Bayh is not one of those guys.
He is the moderate Democratic Senator from Indiana. Senator Bayh is known as a consensus maker. He is the guy who is retiring from the Senate because, "There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress -- too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem- solving."
Wow that sounds serious.
That sounds like the country is in deep trouble.
And Evan Bayh is getting outta Dodge on the last stagecoach.
He is mouthing the words of Cartman from "South Park", "Screw you guys. I'm outta here."
How much is Senator Bayh screwing his fellow Dems? Not just bailing out when Universal Healthcare is threatened or Don't Ask Don't Tell may be rescinded. Senatorial candidates need 500 confirmed signatures from each county in Indiana to get on the ballot. He didn't leave a lot of time for his fellow Democrats to get those signatures.
Maybe Evan Bayh should've seen those movies.
But this is politics in Purgatory.
It's not "High Noon" where Gary Cooper stands alone against a crew of gunslinging criminals aiming to gun him down.
Nor is it "Seven Samurai" (or it's Western equivilent, The Magnificent Seven) when seven warriors defend a hamlet against maurauding bandits with no reward except a roof over their heads and a few bowls of rice a day.
It certainly isn't Shakespeare's "Henry V". On the morning of the Battle of Agincort the English were outnumbered 5 to 1. When the cousin of the King, Westmoreland, wishes for more men Henry declares, "No, my fair cousin; If we are marked to die, we are enow (enough) To do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honour."
Courage in the face of impossible odds. Grim faced stoicism knowing that the only reward one will receive is the knowledge that they did the right thing.
This is not one of those stories.
Evan Bayh is not one of those guys.
He is the moderate Democratic Senator from Indiana. Senator Bayh is known as a consensus maker. He is the guy who is retiring from the Senate because, "There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress -- too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem- solving."
Wow that sounds serious.
That sounds like the country is in deep trouble.
And Evan Bayh is getting outta Dodge on the last stagecoach.
He is mouthing the words of Cartman from "South Park", "Screw you guys. I'm outta here."
How much is Senator Bayh screwing his fellow Dems? Not just bailing out when Universal Healthcare is threatened or Don't Ask Don't Tell may be rescinded. Senatorial candidates need 500 confirmed signatures from each county in Indiana to get on the ballot. He didn't leave a lot of time for his fellow Democrats to get those signatures.
Maybe Evan Bayh should've seen those movies.
But this is politics in Purgatory.
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