Op-Ed Contributor
Why I’m Leaving the Senate
By EVAN BAYH
Published: February 20, 2010
BASEBALL may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. Milton Berle famously joked: “You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.” These days, though, the institutional inertia gripping Congress is no laughing matter.
We're not the only ones dismayed by the dysfunction of Congress.
P.S. I'm also dismayed by the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch, but that's for another day.
