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Daniels' Legacy Clips Bayh V20, N6 Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 Daniels’ legacy clips Bayh era 2010 election debacle and ensuing GOP super majorities prevent Democrat’s return By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – In the past generation, Indiana has seen two dynastic political jugger- nauts generated in Democrat Evan Bayh and Republican Mitch Daniels. In an era of two-party competitiveness at the gubernatorial level, both Bayh and Daniels revived their parties and control of the Statehouse second floor extended beyond their respective two terms in office. What occurred last Friday was, essentially, the latter trumping the former in terms of political legacy. After 20 years of Republican gubernatorial control, Bayh had revived the Indiana Democratic Party in 1986-88 while ushering in a 16-year dy- nasty, as well as control of the Indiana House for a good part of that period and half of the congres- Then U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh greets Gov. Mitch Daniels after the latter’s 2009 inau- sional delegation. guration at the Indiana Statehouse as House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer Daniels ended that dynasty in 2004 and and Senate President David Long look on. Continued on page 3 Grasping the ‘big stick’ By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – Here’s a viewing assignment: A July 29 edition of the PBS Frontline series titled “Losing Iraq.” I ask you to view this because for the third time in the early years of a century, an “You start with some gains this American president has had to thrust military force, or the “big year and try and make some stick,” into remnants of the Ot- headway. This is a long-term toman Empire to take on rogue armies and navies. President strategy toward regaining ma- Jefferson found himself deal- ing with the Barbary pirates jorities in 2020 before the next terrorizing American shipping redistricting occurs.” in 1801. In 1904, it was Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt who - Indiana Democratic reacted to Sherif Mulai Ahmed Chairman John Zody ibn-Muhammed er Raisuli, Lord Page 2 of the Rif, who kidnapped American American leadership and a polarized citizens. citizenry plunge into places we don’t This brought Roosevelt’s fully understand. We don’t appropri- “speak softly and carry a big stick” ately prepare. And for these sins of response. Those two forays were the ignorance and omission, we pay with proverbial picnic compared to what we the blood of our sons and daughters. face today. When I watched “Losing The ISIS threat, set partly in Iraq,” I was filled with anger at the a vicious Syrian civil war where the Bush and Obama presiden- cies. We can’t seem to get is a non-partisan newslet- anything right in a fight we ter based in Indianapolis and picked and then walked Nashville, Ind. It was founded away. in 1994 in Fort Wayne. Last week, Ameri- cans, war-weary and fright- It is published by ened after witnessing the WWWHowey Media, LLC beheadings of two American 405 Massachusetts Ave., journalists, found a defiantly Suite 300 Indianapolis, IN speaking President Obama 46204 vowing to use a “broad coalition” to destroy what he called “a group of kill- Brian A. Howey, Publisher ers.” His target will be the Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington “Islamic state” led by Abu Jack E. Howey, Editor Bakr al-Baghdadi, occupying Mary Lou Howey, Editor parts of Syria and Iraq and threatening a region-wide Matthew Butler, Daily Wire caliphate. Obama becomes yet another American presi- Subscriptions dent drawn into a faraway HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 conflict with little confidence HPI Weekly, $350 that this opponent can be vanquished the way Jef- Ray Volpe, Account Manager ferson and Roosevelt were 317.602.3620 able to prevail. email: [email protected] “In a region that has known so much blood- Contact HPI shed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality,” www.howeypolitics.com Obama said. “They execute [email protected] captured prisoners. They kill Howey’s Cabin: 812.988.6520 children. They enslave, rape Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 and force women into marriage. They so-called “friends of our enemies” Washington: 202.256.5822 threatened a religious minority with barely act like civilized humans, is one genocide. In acts of barbarism, they of these scenarios where mistakes Business Office: 317.602.3620 took the lives of two American jour- and fool’s errands of the past can be nalists, Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff.” compounded into catastrophic levels. © 2014, Howey Politics Indiana. The president said he would Obama laid out a four-point All rights reserved. Photocopy- enlist support from Congress, to show plan that included a “systemic cam- ing, Internet forwarding, fax- the U.S. and the world that “we are paign of airstrikes;” hunting down united.” There is to be a “broad coali- ISIS (or ISIL) terrorists while say- ing or reproducing in any form, tion” of European and Middles Eastern ing that he “will not hesitate to take whole or part, is a violation of allies. ISIL on in Syria;” drawing on counter federal law without permission The problem we face, and is terrorism forces to cut off the flow of from the publisher. vividly captured in the aforementioned fighters and funding; and providing “Frontline” episode is that modern humanitarian assistance to people Page 3 caught up in the genocidal terror. The two wars cost more 5,000 American lives, “We will hunt down terrorists who threaten our 40,000 injured and more than $2 trillion. A Washington country, wherever they are,” Obama said. “This is a core Post-ABC News poll released on Tuesday revealed that 71 principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you percent support airstrikes, up from 54 percent in August will find no safe haven.” and 45 percent in June. And an NBC News/Wall Street In today’s Iraq and Syria, there are no safe ha- Journal Poll released showed 61 percent back a confronta- vens, and the carnage occurring there threatens to metas- tion with ISIS while fears of a domestic terror attack are tasize into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and beyond. We don’t soaring, with 47 percent saying they feel less safe than know how long it will take. We can’t be sure what “victory” before Sept. 11, 2001. looks like or if we’ll even know it when it happens. For Reaction from the Indiana Congressional del- four months in 1999, the U.S. and NATO bombed Serbia egation was united behind a president most had fought in what had been the worst genocidal war since Cambodia tooth and nail for more than five years. U.S. Rep. Luke and World War II, with few American casualties. We’ll be Messer said, “I often disagree with the President’s foreign lucky to have a similar outcome. policy decisions. But, we must come together as one na- Obama attempted to make a distinction between tion, united in our resolve to defeat ISIS.” the coming military action and the two wars that ensued U.S. Sen. Dan Coats said of Obama’s defining mo- after the Sept. 11 terror attacks 13 years ago. “I want ment, “He has finally grasped the true nature of the threat the American people to understand how this effort will be that (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) poses, and his re- different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not sponse to begin the process of taking down this so-called involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil,” caliphate is welcome news.” Obama said, even with 1,600 U.S. advisers on the ground My fear is, I’m not sure Obama, or any one of us, now. fully “grasps” anything. v legislative losses in Southwestern Indiana and legacy Post Bayh, from page 1 Democratic river districts. At the same time, Gov. Daniels corrected what was his biggest political blunder by not over the next five years, presided over a systemic disman- putting more resources into winning the Indiana House in tling of the Democratic power pillars. Long-time East Chi- 2008. cago mayor and Lake County Democratic Chairman Robert Daniels would cruise to reelection with 58% of Pastrick was forced from office as then Attorney General the vote. But lost in the crosswinds of Barack Obama Steve Carter invoked RICO statutes. The Lake County capturing Indiana’s 11 Electoral voter roles were dramatically College votes was the fact that culled by 70,000 by Secretary of Daniels became the first modern State Todd Rokita, and Northern governor not to pull in a House District Attorney Joseph Van majority with him. The bug in Bokkelen relentlessly pursued the proverbial punch bowl was corruption. Speaker Pat Bauer. The Daniels era Re- In 2010, Daniels worked publicans exploited unsound intricately with the House Repub- business practices against the lican Campaign Committee and Indiana State Teachers Associa- Speaker Brian Bosma, recruited tion and reduced its economic the Class of ’10, and was joined electoral clout, and right-to-work by then U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, legislation aimed at the power- who barnstormed the state. The ful United Auto Workers political result that year was a 60-40 wing and other unions. Even Republican House, something there, Daniels had gained union endorsements. At the Bauer couldn’t fathom in the wee hours leading up to that 2008 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner that featured Hillary Clinton debacle election. and Barack Obama, the two union sponsors of the event The stakes were profound in 2010, as legislative had endorsed the incumbent Republican governor. Republicans could draw the maps that would guarantee And then came 2010.
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