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On friday, March 19, 2010, Ellsworth finally shed his sheep’s clothing and exposed himself for the liberal wolf that he is, and announced he will vote for liberal President Obama’s socialistic takeover of healthcare.

In spite of the fact that his constituents are solidly against the bill, in spite of the fact that doctors oppose the bill, in spite of the fact that the United States of America has no money to FUND the bill, Mr. Ellsworth decided it was more important to engender approval from his Democrat leadership and vote against the wishes of his constituents.

One can only hope that he manages to somehow solve the Obama initiated depression before 2011 arrives, because Mr. Ellsworth will undoubtably be looking for a new job.

I wonder if, on sunday, Mr. Ellsworth will be humming, “Take This Job And Shove It” as he casts his vote to spend our country into oblivion.

I’ve been ticked off at Mr. Bayh over the last year. It just seems like he has spent the last year ruining the reputation that he has built over his lifetime. From his years as Governor, where he managed the finances admirably and Indiana had a positive cash flow, through his years as a moderate Democrat, he always appeared to me to be the kind of Politician we needed to represent us.

Yet, for the last year, he has voted the liberal party line all the way down the ticket, and most of us independants have been wondering where the old Evan had gone to.

So, when he announced that he would not run for office again, it gave me pause to reflect upon what this might mean.

Given that 2010 looks to be a pretty tough year for Democrats, it is possible that he simply decided he did not want to risk losing with all the other Democrats. Yet, he has always had a base of support here, people who look upon him fondly. I would be willing to bet there are more ‘Evan’s per capita in Indiana than in any other state, and in fact, that’s the name of my youngest child.

I think it goes deeper than a simple election, though, and I doubt it will be anything that he will ever talk about openly. I believe that Mr. Bayh has deep misgivings about the direction that the current Democrat leadership is taking this country, and I would be willing to bet that, had he the opportunity to do it all over, he would have voted against the stimulus bill in January, 2009. Maybe I’m wrong, but I remember the old Mr. Bayh, the one that would not accept an Indiana budget that was not balanced.

So, Mr. Bayh, I’m going to give you a pass, for now. I had planned on taking you to task for your votes last year, I had even decided to vote against you when the opportunity presented itself down the road.

But, I’m going to wait and see how you finish out your term, now, and hope that the old Mr. Bayh re-emerges. I’ve said it before, and now i will clarify myself; I wouldn’t mind seeing the old Mr. Bayh run for the highest office in the land. He sure would have gotten the Republicans involved, and there is no doubt he would kept the liberal fanatics in check.

Althought the speaker seems a little intense in this video, it is understandable, given that he is reviewing documents showing Nancy Pelosi’s abusive use of government funds to provide transport and alcoholic beverages for herself and members of her family.

Dan Burton gave a nice summary last summer. This video from CSpan discusses the House version of the bill.

Mr. Ellsworth puts on a fancy hat, in an effort to save Indiana jobs.

Well, today I received a nice sized multi paged, full color flyer from Brad Ellsworth, telling me how much money he is saving me.  I wonder how much this flyer cost?  I phoned his office at 10:00 am today, 2/2/2010, and asked them to email a cost summary or a link to where I could search for the expense, as soon as possible.  Now, I wonder how many hours or days it will take for me to get a response?

Let’s review the contents of the flyer, just to see if I am getting my money’s worth.  First off, his intro says, “Dear Friend”.  Brad, I’m not your friend – I’m your Boss.  How long is it going to take you and the rest of congress to get that?  I’m your Boss, and you just spent 1.3 trillion dollars more than we had in the business account.

I am looking through this pamphlet, and, strangely enough I do not see reference to the Health Care bill that Brad Ellsworth voted for.  You know, the one giving $300 million in kickbacks to Louisiana, and attempting to wrest control of 1/6th of the U.S. economy away from fellow citizens.  Remember, the health care plan they worked on the entire year while the country sank into a depression.  Maybe it’s just me, but if I spent an entire year working on a project, I’d let my boss know about it.

Now, Brad does mention the Stimulus Bill, although he doesn’t actually use that term, since people in general have shown disdain for the manner in which that bill was shoved through congress against our wishes.  He claims several successes because of his work with this bill.  Yet, I think we need to review a few facts for Brad.

First, neither Brad Ellsworth, nor any other congressman read that bill through before they voted on it.  It was being drafted and modified by aides only hours before the vote took place.  So, he spent $787 BILLION dollars without knowing precisely what he was voting on.  The reason given?  Oh, you see, it is urgent, and congress had shovel ready projects to put America to work.  Only problem is, many of these urgent shovel ready projects that Brad and the others shoved through congress aren’t actually scheduled to begin until the 2010 elections draw near.  Wow, imagine the coincidence that we have hundreds of billions of dollars worth of urgent shovel ready projects that don’t get scheduled to begin for a year or more after the vote.  Isn’t that a lucky coincidence for any politician in a tight race.

Back to the full color, multi page flyer describing how he is saving money.  Well, there is a perforated edge with a card he wants me to fill out and return.  How about that, I have to spring for a stamp.  Not surprising, I guess; after all I’m the one, to a small degree, that footed the bill for him to design, print and mail this stupid patting-himself-on-the-back flyer to thousands of people in the first place.

Big freaking surprise.