Citing his frustration with perpetual deadlock and the failure of Democratic and Republican lawmakers to make any meaningful compromises, Evan Bayh has announced his retirement from the U.S. Senate. According to Brett Michael Dykes, Bayh -- who appeared headed for a rubber stamp reelection -- is leaving in hopes that Americans respond to our legislators' overall lack of results by "voting incumbents out en masse and replacing them with people interested in reforming the process and governing for the good of the people, rather than special interest groups."
An interesting wrinkle in this story is that Bayh pointedly criticizes his own party, and holds the Democrats equally accountable for what he describes as "dysfunctional...brain-dead partisanship." There are various Op-Ed articles about Bayh's decision to retire. Some speculate the he is quitting, simply because he doesn't have the campaigning energy and resources required to be re-elected. Others call him a quitter.
At what point does it make sense for someone in a leadership position to step-down, or step aside? And, is the act of stepping down, in the seemingly principle-based manner of Bayh, in and of itself an act of leadership?
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Washington Post
Posted by: Christian G. Bosse
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