The first thing Blanche Lincoln did after winning her primary was to cast a vote to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases. Now she says she wasn’t the deciding vote on health care reform despite campaigning in the primary on that very fact. What she should say is that she was indeed the deciding vote but that the bill she voted on was a piece of shit thanks to her obstruction on the Finance Committee and her filibuster threats. It will actually be fun to watch her lose in November.
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hmm. but the white house says “Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members’ money down the toilet on a pointless exercise. If even half that total had been well-targeted and applied in key House races across this country, that could have made a real difference in November.”
and moreover, the president agrees, according to Bob Gibbs.
Why do you think they were so intent on getting Lincoln re-elected, when she opposed so much of what the White House claims are its goals? and why are the democrats coming out so strongly against Labor?
..why are the democrats coming out so strongly against Labor?
Umm, because both parties are paid to collude in the current transformation of the American Lower and Middle Classes into debt-slaves?
Or.. Where is Labor support gonna go, if not the Dems?
Why did they go all out to get Lincoln re-elected? The price of her vote on the Senate healthcare bill.
And the message to other members of the caucus that “We’ve got your back if you vote with the President.”
They’re wedded to the narrative. My virginal ears are shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find politics going on!
Jay Rockefeller, a so-called progressive, voted WITH Lincoln and four other Democrats. What’s your point? What does it matter how Blanche Lincoln voted when the reality is that it only takes one Democrat, like Rockefeller, who can keep this country hostage to coal energy? Why not go after him? In fact, why not expend as much energy pushing ALL Democrats and the few moderate Republicans to bring this country into the 21st century rather than wasting time on Blanche Lincoln? If progressives, liberals or whatever can not turn this tragedy into a political movement for 21st century energy policy than you deserve to be treated like an itch in the ass.
Interesting situation developing in NC-08. The GOP primary week after next is likely to nominate a Tea Party candidate (with lots of baggage) named d’Annunzio.
Larry Kissell has betrayed a lot of the folks who funded his campaign with small donor checks. And there was a primary challenge from a black female educator.
Now, SEIU, who supported Kissell in 2008, is filing to run and independent candidate who just happened to be one of Kissell’s staffers, a guy named Wendell Fant. Likely branded as a Families First candidate.
Why this might work is that it might go to a runoff if Kissell can’t break 40%. Of the scenarios for a runoff, Kissell is likely to win against d’Annunzio or Fant. But if it is Fant vs. d’Annunzio, Fant is likely to win. But Kissell gets delivered a message.
Yup, make them fight for it. These awful democrats need to know they can’t take support for granted and that if they fuck up there will be hell to pay.
that reminds me, i never called up TJ Rooney to make fun of him for backing specter.
Groups like MoveOn should be fundraising right now for a huge ad buy in November. Cut a brutal ad going after incumbancy protection, with a big helping of we-told-you-so.
Target the national media with it by flooding the airwaves of DC.
I don’t know — It seems possible that Lincoln could parlay her punch in the eye to the banksters into a credible race if she keeps up the populist rhetoric. It would take more skill than she’s shown so far, but she can hire the “best” consultants to show her the way. If she can keep the focus on the bank thing, what’s her opponent going have for ammo? Kicking the big banks? Being “moderate” on health care? Voting against a galloping environmentalist bureaucracy? No. It will be very hard to attack her effectively from the right because her only “liberal” act was whacking the banks, and you’re not going to get the teapartiers in a froth against that.
For all our contempt, there will be no one to attack from the left. Unions and MoveOn/etc are not going to waste resources to elect a wingnut Rep. The only way I see her knocked out for sure would be a credible 3rd party challenge, and there’s no sign of that so far.
It’s going to take consistently populist actions between now and November and not just rhetoric for her to pull it off. Especially real action on jobs.
Will it? You’re assuming a well-informed electorate. If she can ride the “kicked the banksters in the face” meme, who’s going to call her on further failures to back a less-than-energizing Dem agenda? As long as she manages not to come out as an oilco defender, I don’t see much up the legislative pike to seriously open her to attack.
When it comes to kitchen table issues, the electorate is better informed about who has rhetoric and who doesn’t. They feel the results in their daily lives. No stories of neighbors getting hired back or new jobs, more layoffs and it doesn’t matter what Blanche says about the banksters.
will be very glad when she loses