Bailing Out

In addition to Sen. Tom Tillis (NC), Rep. Don Bacon (NE) also announced he’s retiring yesterday. There’s a lot of commentary about “centrists” and “moderates” and “institutionalists” out there and how they’re a dying breed. Whatever. This strikes me as something more straightforward. They’re both endangered incumbents. And they see that this bill, certainly now on the way to passage, is a record that basically dooms them to defeat. So they’re out. They can read the winds.