Is Evan Bayh looking smart for getting out so early, or what? A video from "Morning Joe:
Alternate headline: “Lame-duck Blue Dog free to admit what every other Democrat already knows.” The good stuff comes at the beginning, but if you give up before the end, you'll miss him talking about what a horrible political miscalculation ObamaCare was. Yes, after 60 years of trying, they finally got a foot in the door of socialized medicine, but they knew the price they'd pay was steep. Did they know it'd be quite this steep, though?
From the clip: "It's a tough environment for incuments . . . particularly Democratic ones . . . people are angry . . . a large wave election."
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Bayh saw the handwriting on the wall early on, though it didn't exactly require the powers of Nostradamus to see this backlash coming.