Reply #52: Yeah he can be dull - esp remember him on MTP on Bush's first tax cut. [View All]

It was a really interesting interview, even more so in hindsight.

I was swept away by John Edwards' forceful speaking style and unenthused by Bayh.

But now I look back at that interview - Edwards was all no, no no the tax cut is wrong.

Bayh mildly suggested that he was proposing a trigger ammendment that would cancel further tax cuts (remember the lowest brackets were cut first) if the surplus was gone/budget not balanced.

If Dems had rallied behind the Bayh ammendment they would have been golden - they would have voted for the Bush tax cut - which would have stopped after year one - thus having their cake (politically) and killing the Bush tax cut for all but the poorest, simultaneously.

But I have to tell you, I totally loved the red meat Edwards was delivering. (I volunteered for Edwards in the primaries - in large part because of my memory of this particular group interview).

Bayh is dull, but in hindsight, pragmatic. I could get behind him in the GE, easy, but I'll still back a red meat Dem in the primary, cause I'm a sucker for loud liberals.