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Thu Mar-04-10 04:22 PM
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Blanche "Don't Answer to My Party" Lincoln ad depicts Democratic-controlled DC as childish spenders |
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:26 PM
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1. I really want her out, more than Holy Joe these days... |
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:26 PM
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2. Blanche needs to get blanched! nt |
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Fri Mar-05-10 09:40 AM
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24. And so do all the blue dog senators. |
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:28 PM
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3. We're FULLY aware of that. |
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:29 PM
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4. If she really wanted to win re-election, she'd become a populist instead of a conservative. |
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Ads attacking "big spending" tend to be ads that come out of the right wing. If she were a populist, she'd be running ads advocating jobs programs and infrastructure investment and affordable health care for all, not ads attacking fellow Democrats, however corrupt they may be. People don't care about that. In fact, it tends to push away a lot of voters. People care about jobs, their financial situation, and their quality of life. Talk about those things if you want to win re-election, and you better deliver the goods if you talk like that, or get the fuck out.
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:39 PM
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5. Jobs, hell, unions are trying like hell to get her out of there. |
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Obama is backing a loser here.
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:40 PM
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6. I think that gay bigots and women haters ought to exit from the party as well.... nt |
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:42 PM
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7. Those last four words of your post are all you needed. n/t |
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Fri Mar-05-10 09:37 AM
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Thu Mar-04-10 04:53 PM
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8. Hilarious that someone serving "The Natural State" in DC, |
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Is one of three Senate Democrats so far to officially back a GOP effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Time for folks to push for Lt. Gov. Bill Halter and send Blanche packing...
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Thu Mar-04-10 05:28 PM
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9. She is campaigning as a republican; if elected she has to vote like a republican. What the hell is |
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the President doing supporting her?? She is of no use to Democrats. None, except toward the numbers for a "majority" but we know that number is really 41.
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Thu Mar-04-10 05:33 PM
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10. That is the most disgraceful, to me. The President supports her in her primary campaign |
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against a progressive! That kind of puts the whole argument about Obama not fighting for progressive policies cause he can't get them through the Senate to rest doesn't it? If it were just a matter of 'pragmatism' and he truly favored progressive policy, would he not be supporting some progressive challenges to the Blue Dogs?
I think we have our answer.
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:12 PM
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12. Obama supported Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont, *THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE*. |
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This shouldn't surprise anyone.
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:36 PM
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:46 PM
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16. Poor judgment then- poor judgment now. |
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What it amounts to is taping a great big "kick me sign" to his back- telling everyone so inclined: "hey, go ahead and block my policies. Vote with Republicans. Side with corrupt corporate interests over our key constituencies. No problem- we'll still back you and try to shield you from accountability."
(The fact that I even had to write that after what happened with Lieberman is galling).
Should have stayed out of it then- and should have stayed out of it now.
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:57 PM
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17. How much more do we need to know in order to determine where Obama stands |
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on the left/right continuum?
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Thu Mar-04-10 05:36 PM
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11. But MoveOn can't run ads targeting obstructionist Blue Dogs |
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Let's see how Rahm and the rest of the WH team reacts to this, as opposed to how they reacted to MoveOn's ads targeting Baucus.
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:22 PM
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14. They have reacted. Obama endorsed her. |
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:58 PM
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18. Heavens, no! That would be 'fucking retarded." |
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The Blue Dogs are Rahm's pets and do his bidding.
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:18 PM
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13. Good luck with that strategy in the DEMOCRATIC primary nt |
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Thu Mar-04-10 06:59 PM
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19. I can think of one place Democrats can save a LOT of money |
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And that's any campaign contributions people might have been contemplating for Ms. Lincoln.
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Thu Mar-04-10 07:01 PM
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20. I guess I am in the minority who like Senator Lincoln. She is under attack because she |
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Edited on Thu Mar-04-10 07:02 PM by Mike 03
voted for Health Care, isn't she? She is obviously intelligent and courageous enough to defy the conservative assholes who are trying to derail her career and approval of health care.
(Or at least that is the impression I received from watching her performance during the Senate Finance Committee mark up.
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Thu Mar-04-10 11:25 PM
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21. She is an anti-union corporatist, if you like that sort of thing. |
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Fri Mar-05-10 09:38 AM
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23. This observer will be contributing to Halter in that Senate primary. |
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Fri Mar-05-10 12:06 PM
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