United filibuster-proof Dem Caucus, Senator Blanche Lincoln joins HCR effort!

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:fistbump:

[itsrobert]

1. She won't vote for the Public Option

So she's talking out two sides of her Little Rock mouth.

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2. She may just want political cover, likely a trigger or opt out with Snowe on board

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4. Not that this makes me real happy

[IndianaGreen]

10. Having a Democratic Senate has not helped the working class one iota

Too many corporatist politicians and blue dogs.

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12. I think it has helped about 2 iotas

better than -500 iotas but still pretty crappy.

[quiet.american]

3. That's great news for tonight. nt

[Froward69]

5. I do wonder

if the Little rock free clinic swayed her vote?

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6. Couldn't have hurt

[IndianaGreen]

7. Per CNN: Blanche Lincoln to filibuster if public option kept

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x10320

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9. She said as it is currently written, that is not accurate

[IndianaGreen]

11. The public option is not the one we were promised!

This is total crap!

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13. Agreed but that is the reality and we need to fight for the reform we can get until we can get more

[IndianaGreen]

16. There is no point in fighting for this crap!

At the end of this bullshit road you call legislation, we will end up with triggers which a future Congress will repeal.

We will get nothing but unaffordable mandates, and taxes on those having union gained health coverage!

Thanks a lot!

[Cleita]

17. There is no public option. It's only being called that.

For it to really be public, it has to be made available to everyone who wants it. I'm just hoping that in the final bill, there is a Trojan Horse that the corporate whore part of Congress doesn't notice, that we can make work into a real Medicare like public option.

[ddeclue]

8. Yeah right... yippee.. at the same time she spends her speech bashing P.O. vowing to vote against it

She's a traitor to the party and needs to be primaried.

[Cleita]

14. Here's the good news.

Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, who helped organize the Little Rock Free Clinic may oppose her in the primaries with a pro single-payer health ticket.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/lincoln-could-face-primar_n_364125.html

Edited to clarify statement.

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15. Neat, thanks for posting