David Obey (D-WI) Another One Bites The Dust...

It's always good to get a "progressive" Democrat to retire, rather than to have to beat him, even in a year like 2010.
Rep. David R. Obey, the author of last year's $862 billion economic stimulus law, said Wednesday that he won't seek re-election this year - and on the way out he took shots at the Senate, the press, the country's mood and even former President George W. Bush, whose remarks at a 2001 meeting he considered so arrogant that it caused him to want to stay in Congress eight extra years.

The combative, gravel-voiced Wisconsin Democrat amassed a four-decade career, including two stints as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, during which he fought for historic expansions of government aid on everything from education to veterans' health care, and with it came record-shattering spending.