Best quote from a Democrat

In a long time. Evan Bayh finally has some intellectual honesty.

“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.”

Only took him quitting the Senate to say it.

Of course Bayh also said he is quitting because he can't stand the partisanship in Congress. But yet he was a guaranteed vote for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. If he was more than a self promoting douche bag of a politician he would have said this before he retired.

Imagine if a Democrat...

In a heavily Republican state raised an astounding $13 million in what should have been a safe seat for the Republicans. Which is exactly what Scott Brown did in the process of derailing Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.

Brown raised so much late money - about $1 million a day via the Internet at the end - that he couldn’t spend it all. He ended the campaign with an estimated $4 million in his campaign account, spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said. The campaign’s original budget was $1.2 million, but it ultimately raised about $13 million. With a flush campaign account, Brown will enter office in a stronger position to defend against an almost certain challenge in 2012.

If the roles were reversed and the Democrat had out raised and won a seat in a Republican state the media would be going crazy. The talking points would be how the Republican party is failing the country. How the people have seen the light and the trend is going to be towards an overwhelming support nation wide of Democrats.

But of course we won't see any of that from the main steam media.

Imagine if a Republican...

Or actually Republicans, said they were going to jam a bill through the Senate, with a simple majority vote, breaking the Senate rules. What would the media be saying? Probably something like they don't care about the wishes of the American people. Or they are trying to derail the democratic process. But when the Democrats say that is exactly what they might do even if Scott Brown wins the special election. No one in the media cares. Actually they do care they are applauding it.

Even if Democrats lose the special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.

That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities. That supermajority is at risk as the Massachusetts race has tightened.

“Even before Massachusetts and that race was on the radar screen, we prepared for the process of using reconciliation,” Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said.

“Getting health-care reform passed is important,” Van Hollen said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “Reconciliation is an option.”