So insane that you couldn’t make something like this up if you tried.

From the Washington Post:

Anita Dunn, one of Barack Obama’s closest political advisers, is returning to her media consulting practice — bypassing the chance to serve in the first Democratic White House in nearly a decade.

She will return to her firm — Squier Knapp Dunn — and begin the process of readjusting to the soap-operatic world of political consulting. Dunn’s biggest client heading in the 2010 election is Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh who some Republicans believe can be beaten — we’re skeptical — with the right candidate.

That was posted back in November of 2008. Dunn did end up working at the White House, and she quit after she got in trouble for making a series of comments saying she was a fan of Mao Tse-Tung.

The website for Squier Knapp Dunn lists Anita Dunn as a partner who is currently on leave from the firm. The firm’s website lists Evan Bayh’s Senatorial campaign as one of their clients. Bayh’s hire of Dunn made news last year, but Dunn wasn’t in hot water over her Maoist comments back then.

And just how much money has Evan Bayh given to Anita Dunn and her company? The short answer is that we don’t know. The Senate, interestingly, exempted itself from having to report campaign expenditures.

But do Hoosiers want a Senator who relies on a Maoist for political messaging?