Blanche Lincoln & The Rigging Of The Game

11:07 pm EST October 4th, 2009 | News | 5 Comments

The NY Times writes up the role Sen. Blanche Lincoln will have in the upcoming health care bill. Of course the problem is that Lincoln is up for re-election in a red state, and despite all the evidence that people in Arkansas support a public option – she keeps voting against one.

Republicans too often react with kneejerks to the demands of their base, Democrats act as if they’ve got none.

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5 Responses to “Blanche Lincoln & The Rigging Of The Game”

  1. desmoinesdem says:
    October 4, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    I’m not donating to the DSCC this cycle. I don’t want a penny of my money going to Lincoln’s campaign. We would be better off if she lost in 2010. Another D would take her place on Senate Finance, and Debbie Stabenow would probably become chair of Senate Agriculture.

  2. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    October 5, 2009 at 12:15 am

    You know what the article forgot to mention? It mentions the fact that Cranky McSame beat Obama by twenty points there. It would be helpful to mention that any polls I saw said Hillary would have smoked Cranky McSame if she were the nominee. Which tells me two things. Arkansas voters love Hillary(Democrat and all), and I am sure plenty of them, sadly, were voting against Obama.

  3. Indeed says:
    October 5, 2009 at 12:44 am

    Of course the problem is that Lincoln is up for re-election in a red state, and despite all the evidence that people in Arkansas support a public option – she keeps voting against one.

    The want for short term wheelbarrows full of cash is an understandably powerful draw, but Senators have a chance to vote for a popular program and to be on the right side of History. But money, damn, that’s nice.

  4. jr says:
    October 5, 2009 at 3:33 am

    Blanche took an oath to protect and defend the CEOs of the United States of America

  5. Jet says:
    October 6, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    Alan Grayson acts like he’s got a base. :-)