Maddow v. Bayh

Following up on my post from this morning, it's kind of weird to listen to Rachel Maddow rip Evan Bayh. According to the MSNBC host, Bayh was "probably the only Democrat who could've held that Senate seat right now," i.e., the moderate kind. (She apparently can't bring herself to say it.)

Yet it is those same moderate Dems that Maddow spends half of her air time taking to task for getting in the way of true progressives. She'll criticize Obama for not keeping his agenda far enough to the Left, and spit on the failed campaigns of the Blue Dogs because they ruined the health care bill, the jobs bill and a dozen other things, but then, without any sense of irony, fire a full broadside at a moderate Democrat for, of all things, not choosing to run again and hold his seat for Team Blue. A team which, according to Maddow, he never should have been on in the first place.

Thank god consistency isn't a necessity of being a pundit.