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Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network. (more)

Senate Democrats on Wednesday defeated an amendment to pay for the $60 billion in unemployment insurance payments that were included in President Obama’s tax deal with Republicans, which included a provision that would have eliminated taxpayer-funded benefits for millionaires. (more)

Late last week, 13 senators signed and sent a letter to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. The letter wasn’t about headline-dominating issues of interest rates, deficit reduction or extending the Bush tax cuts. The letter cautioned Chairman Bernanke about action he and his fellow Federal Reserve Board of Governors are scheduled to take this week — which, if not done properly, will have a troubling impact on the wallets of millions of consumers across the nation. (more)

PBS Newshour aired a segment called “Politics and the Art of Compromise” in which they interviewed two outgoing United States Senators who they opine are casualties of compromise: Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah). Their thesis is that political compromise in this age of divided, ideological governance leads to being thrown out of office. But such a discourse is fallacious and misses the bigger picture: Political compromise for the sake of gaining favor and compromise of purported principles are not compromise in the interest of political progress. (more)

Evan Bayh, the honorable centrist Democrat from Indiana, will retire from the United States Senate in January, replaced on election night by Republican Dan Coats in what has become the most Republican Great Lakes state.  Bayh’s election-day column in the New York Times anticipates precisely how Democrats and Republicans will square off for the great American center, which is both despised and urgently desired by ideologues of both parties. (more)

Finally, it’s time to vote. But there’s a full day left to wait for results. In the meantime, here are three dominant political themes for the days ahead. (more)

Indiana Senator Evan Bayh said Monday that Democrats should be prepared to lose 60 seats in the House on Tuesday, and he criticized his own party for hurting itself after disregarding an early warning from voters. (more)

As Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and a host of special interest groups continue their relentless push for a federal Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), one can only hope the lack of broad-based public support for the measure will again lead to the controversial and economically unsound legislation’s rejection. (more)

Democratic leaders are pushing departing lawmakers to turn over their war chests to help the party retain control of Congress, but in some cases are getting a stiff-arm. (more)

Democrats in Washington will argue that the debate coming in September over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans – or whether to let them expire for families making more than $250,000 a year – is one they relish. (more)

The liberal tax revolt, as the Wall Street Journal is calling it, is a very important topic — especially for investors and small-business entrepreneurs. And for new jobs. (more)

Ben Bernanke threw a curveball in his midterm report to Congress this week. The Fed view of the economy has been downgraded since it last reported in February. Although the official Fed forecast for 2010-11 is still 3 to 4 percent real growth, Bernanke sounded particularly gloomy when he characterized the economy as “unusually uncertain.” And he indicated that the majority view of the Fed Board of Governors and Reserve Bank presidents is that the risks to growth are “weighted to the downside.” (more)

Sometime before June 7, the so-called Murkowski resolution to block EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will be voted on in the Senate. Democrats up for re-election this fall may want to think twice about a knee-jerk “no” vote. (more)

Building anti-incumbent sentiment has fueled a slew of populist measures in the Senate this week. (more)

WASHINGTON — Mark the first round down, shakily, for Republican incumbents and party establishment favorites. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — It turned out anger didn’t translate at the ballot box. (more)

Voters head to the polls in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina Tuesday for primary elections. In the age of the Tea Parties and anti-incumbency sentiment, all three should give some insight into whether 2010 really will be a down-with-the-establishment year. (more)

With health care passed, a Supreme Court nomination battle on the horizon, cap and trade inching back towards the front burner, and the eruption over the ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty insight, where is that leading voice of “Can’t we all just get along”? To paraphrase President Clinton, isn’t the era of big partisanship over with the mid February pronouncements of Senator Evan Bayh and the accompanying hosannas from the media. No! It’s only further evidence that unmitigated hypocrisy is alive and well in Washington DC. (more)

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Fake nuclear option, meet the real nuclear option. (more)