Spend a little time cruising memeorandum and you get a sense that the Left is just seething with anger. Evan Bayh is the target du jour, but a casus belli doesn't seem to matter to these people--their heads are always just ready to explode. Even when Bayh says something they like, the Left still find a way to trash him.

It’s immaterial whether Bayh thinks his brand of mushy centrism and fiscal peacockery would fare better under a change in Senate rules. What’s crucial here is that we have a Democrat actually stating the reasons for the lack of action from Washington, combined with a real proposal to fix it.

Of course, it would be preferable, if Bayh wanted to actually change the rules of the Senate to make it a better institution for his children and the future of the country, for him to STAY and actually get that done. So his departure because of the difficulty of things smacks of cowardice. However, if someone like Bayh is willing to identify the Senate rules as the source of the problem, then old lions like Chris Dodd, who called such reforms “foolish,” are probably in the deep minority in the chamber.

I was trying to think, if during my adult years, there was ever a time when the left wasn't totally pissed off. They were pissed during the Carter years. Really pissed during the Reagan year (when prosperity was bad...), and then again during the Clinton years (when prosperity was good...). How does one maintain that level of outrage for that long?