Why should a liberal Deomocrat support Evan Bayh?

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I would be fine with a Bayh nomination. While he is fairly conservative for a Democrat, he usually votes on the correct side and still has the same basic core values I have.

My heart says Feingold in 2008, but my head says Bayh or Warner. Bayh could definitely help unify the country.

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Why wouldn't a liberal support Evan Bayh? He's no John Kerry, but he's still a left-wing extremist hack.

Any politician to the left of Rick Santorum is a left-wing extremist to you.

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Bayh has always supported the war.

He has proposed a bill to end the "Patriot Penalty" so that soliders won't have their pay cut once they come back from the war.

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Maybe your attitude would change given the fact that half of people who declare bankruptcy do so because of large medical bills.

I've read that about 50% of bankruptcy filings are due to medical bills (due to lack of health insurance or inadequate health insurance). Another large percentage is due to divorce. Only a minority of bankruptcy cases are due to fiscal irresponsibility.

So yeah, the bankruptcy bill sucks. The credit card companies can change your interest rate from 8% to 25% without any reason, totally screwing over the consumer.

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Another one of the many reasons for universal, single-payer health care.

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I had my interest rate changed from 8% to 22% through no fault of my own. I never made any late payments or anything. They just did it because they could.

Needless to say, I cancelled that card and will never do business with that company again.

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But there are no guarantees. After an introductory period, they can change your interest rate for no reason. It is corporate theft.

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Single-payer would be cheaper than our current system and do wonders for our economy and the well-being of American citizens.