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The Hoosierpundit
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Blogging on politics in Indiana, and particularly southern Indiana.
Recent Posts
Evan Bayh, WellPoint, and ObamaCare
Last week, former Congressman and current Senate candidate John Hostettler tweaked Evan Bayh by sarcastically predicting that Bayh wouldn't vote for ObamaCare because it would endanger his wife's access to lucrative stock options as a member of the b...
Mitch on ObamaCare at the Brink
From National Review comes Mitch Daniels' statement on the imminent health care cataclysm:"I'm discouraged, dispirited, and disappointed. Discouraged that such a backwards, anti-taxpayer disaster of a bill is this close to passage. Dispirited at a gr...
Peyton\'s Language
Harry Reid: If a Senator Didn\'t Get Something in Health Bill, They\'re A Sucker
Doesn't speak well of Evan Bayh's efforts for Indiana in this whole mess, does it?Politico:“There are 100 senators here and I don’t know that there’s a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that isn’t important to them,” Reid s...
Indy\'s Wishard Not Intended Senate Mystery Hospital, But Qualifies Anyway
A follow-up on this post from yesterday.ABC News:A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, h...
Hope & Change: Democratic Senator Reelected by 36% Margin in 2004 Now Trails by 22% in Reelect Polling
No, not Evan Bayh (though this sort of polling should give Indiana's most famous invertebrate serious pause), but North Dakota's Byron Dorgan:Incumbent Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan may have a serious problem on his hands if Republicans recruit Gov...

