Veteran Democratic Congressman quits, unleashes stream of criticism for Democrat leaders in Congress

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Veteran Democratic Congressman quits, unleashes stream of criticism for Democrat leaders in Congress

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RWB News: Life-long Democrat Rep. Brian Baird, a six-term congressman from Washington state has never won re-election with less than 56% of the vote, is calling it quits. He tells the Wall Street Journal in a very telling interview that he wants to watch his twins grow up, and leaving congress allows him to speak out about the direction he sees the Democratic Party heading. This former Democrat congressman should be heard by all moderate Democrats and Independents… most Republicans already knew how the ‘Regime’ operated.


All good Democrats should be irate when Rep Baird said, when it came to the Healthcare Bill, “What the hell were we doing voting on this? I had labor groups come to me and insist the bill was so important, we couldn’t wait to know what was in it,” he recalls. “I asked them if they were handed a new union contract and told it was so important they had to agree to it without reading it, would they go along?” They continued to insist he vote for the bill and threatened him with a primary challenger. Wow, huh? Sounds like what many people were trying to say but was buried by the State Run Media.

Rep. Baird says “It’s been an authoritarian, closed leadership. That style plus a general group-think mentality didn’t work when Tom DeLay called the shots,” Mr. Baird says. “We’ve made some of the same damn mistakes, and we were supposed to be better. That’s the heartbreak.”. . . . .