The left-wing blogosphere has been focused on Evan Bayh for the past several weeks, with various efforts to understand the seeming hypocrisy of our Junior Senator’s actions.
It's hard not to agree with Steve Benen's recent summary of the situation:
Shameful–and Illuminating
Over at Balkinization, Jack Balkin considers the implications of the news that
Outsourcing Prayer
From Political Animal’s recurring post “This Week in God,” we have news of a new, labor-saving website:
Information Age Prayer is a site that charges you a monthly fee to say prayers for you. A typical charge is $4.95 per month to say three prayers specified by you each day.
Shameless plug and plea…….
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The Many Opinions of Evan Bayh
As you probably know, Bayh was one of only two Democrats to vote against the Obama budget. The other was Ben Nelson, a very conservative Democrat from a very red state.
Bayh faces no credible threat to his re-election, and if he's a man of conscience, he's hidden it well thus far.