Barack Obama promised a "new kind of politics" during the presidential campaign. I guess that means turning one of his lackey-groups against a senator who won't play ball with his administration, as Amanda Carpenter tells us.President Obama has turned his grassroots campaign, Organizing for America, against Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh, a member of his own party.
OFA sent an e-mail to Indiana residents on Wednesday asking them to phone Republican Rep. Steve Buyer, Republican Sen. Richard Lugar and Democratic Sen. Bayh to let them "know where you stand on President Obama's budget."
Bayh has been one of the Democratic party's most outspoken members against President Obama's spending, penning a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to outline his opposition to the $410 billion omnibus bill that Obama signed. He also announced last week that he is leading a 15-member working group of moderate Senate Democrats. Bayh said the group was informally called "the practical caucus."
Bayh is up for reelection next year, and despite Obama's carrying the Hoosier State, Indiana is still a conservative stronghold. But Bayh easily triumphed over his two Republican foes in his previous Senate elections. The Obama-bots will continue to attempt to make Blue Dog Bayh nervous all the same.
A new kind of politics.
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Cracks in the wall: Some Dems are balking at high spending
Bayh says we should say bye to the omnibus bill
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The KOS kids tried this tactic against Lieberman in '06. I discused that issue with my former congressman Rahm Emanuel (we have mutual friends) and he was quite animated in his disdain of attempts to drag candidates too far to the left.
ReplyDeleteI reposted an acount of that exchange here:
http://flyingdebris.blogspot.com/2008/11/leftists-call-rahm-racist.html