[emc]

I'm sure that many Indiana THR members already know this, but for those who do not, I wanted to pass along some news about recent votes and comments by our junior senator.

Quoting the American Rifleman from the Oct. 2005 issue -
"Sen. Bayh pledged last year to support legislation to block frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry, and NRA sent a letter to Indiana members encouraging them to thank him. Sen. Bayh failed to honor his pledge and voted for the Reed amendment to completely gut S.397. When the Reed substitute was soundly defeated 63 to 33, Bayh voted against final passage of the bill."

Secondly, he recently announced that he was planning on voting against Judge Roberts' confirmation. Bayh stated that Roberts had not answered enough questions to satisfy him. Of course, this ignores the precedent that other nominees have followed which is that they should not make comments regarding issues which are likely to come before them while serving. As an attorney, Bayh is more familiar with this than most people.

I don't editorialize on this forum often, but I will now. It's well past time for Bayh to be replaced. The above topics are just more proof that we need to get the news out to inform others of what this guy is doing. He does a good job of maintaining the image of someone who represents this state with a variety of reasonable stances, confident that the local news media, both broadcast and print, won't go the extra step and actually tell the voters just how he has been voting. :cuss: One of the talking points of his first campaign was that he was running in order to support "Hoosier Values." It's long since been clear that as he was getting on the plane to go to D.C., that he was tossing that plank of his campaign in the trash. :barf:

FWIW,

emc

[El Tejon]

The best indicator of futurue behavior is past behavior. The Bayh family has a long history of double talking. His father did the same thing--promise to defend our freedoms and then betray us in D.C.

Bayh talks the Hoosier talk, but he walks the East Coast Eloi walk.

[Boss Spearman]

Bayh and Lugar are real pieces of work.

A couple of years ago, in the midst of US businesses closing and more US people losing their jobs, I found an article on the US giving Israel millions of dollars to rebuild their economy. THEIR economy? This news item was not reported in most of the US news media.
I wrote to Lugar protesting it, saying the US economy should take precedence over Israel, or any other country. I stated I was opposed to my tax money going to any foreign country.

His office wrote me back, admitting we were giving the money to Israel, with a b.s. message about how we have to propagate the Middle East peace process.

I'm still offended by us giving them that money and letting our economy rot, and I thought Lugar's response was laughable. A US Senator who is supposed to be for the people, favoring a foreign country over the US.

[Justin]

What El Tejon said. Bayh Lugar is one of the primary reasons for why I view the Republican party with such a jaundiced eye.

[BowStreetRunner]

isn't he a democrat?
BSR

[Boss Spearman]

Yes. Lugar is the alleged Republican.

[emc]

Alleged Republican is right! Lugar voted in favor of the original AWB, and is a dyed in the wool globalist. He masquerades as a conservative back home, but is at best a left leaning moderate back in D.C. Won't lower himself to appear on local talk radio unless it's under very carefully controlled circumstances. Mustn't have any uncomfortable questions, don't you know!

I ran into the same kind of prevarication when I've called his office to find out what the Senator's stance is on various issues or pending legislation. His staff ALWAYS replies that the Senator hasn't decided yet. After receiving this runaround, I told a staffer one day that it had to be one of three circumstances:

1. The senator DOES know what his position is, but has chosen not to tell you.
2. The senator DOES know what his position is, and has told you to say he DOESN'T know.
3. The senator DOESN'T know what to think on such an important issue, and is just ignorant.

The silence I received in way of response was so great I swore I could have heard crickets chirping outside Lugar's office. That told me all that I needed to know. Bottom line is that he's a fraud and a liar, and I would gladly support and vote for virtually any true conservative or libertarian running against him, and have done so.

FWIW,

emc