{"id":338345,"date":"2010-02-17T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22545"},"modified":"2010-02-17T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:30:43","slug":"senator-bayh-calls-senate-%e2%80%9cbroken-and-dysfunctional%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338345","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bayh Calls Senate \u201cBroken and Dysfunctional\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Balz for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/16\/AR2010021605974.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/15\/AR2010021503451.html\">surprise decision not to seek reelection<\/a> touched off a debate Tuesday among strategists and scholars about whether the Indiana senator&#8217;s depiction of the &#8220;brain dead&#8221; politics and hyper-<a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/politicsglossary\/party-affiliated\/partisan\/\">partisanship<\/a> of Congress is accurate or overblown &#8212; and, if accurate, whether walking away was the right decision.<\/p>\n<p>Bayh dealt a triple blow to his <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/politicsglossary\/party-affiliated\/Democratic-Party\/\">Democratic Party<\/a> and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Barack_Obama\">President Obama<\/a> with his announcement Monday that he is sick of the partisanship in Washington and will not seek a third term&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Balz for the Washington Post: Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s surprise decision not to seek reelection touched off a debate Tuesday among strategists and scholars about whether the Indiana senator&#8217;s depiction of the &#8220;brain dead&#8221; politics and hyper-partisanship of Congress is accurate or overblown &#8212; and, if accurate, whether walking away was the right decision. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}