Blanche Lincoln's website says she supports the public option

[babylonsister]

http://www.openleft.com/diary/16143/blanche-lincolns-website-says-she-supports-the-public-option

Blanche Lincoln's website says she supports the public option
by: Chris Bowers
Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 21:20


(Via Wonkroom) Not only did Blanche Lincoln sign a document stating that she supported the public option, according to her Senate website, she is still cool with the public option:

Health care reform must build upon what works and improve inefficiencies. Individuals should be able to choose from a range of quality health insurance plans. Options should include private plans as well as a quality, affordable public plan or non-profit plan that can accomplish the same goals of a public plan.

And here's a screenshot:



Blanche Lincoln is a liar. She signs a document stating that she supports the public option. Her website says that she would be fine with a public option. And then she does on the floor of the Senate, and promises to filibuster any bill with a public option.

There is still a real possibility that Lincoln could face a high-profile primary challenge next year. The challenger won't be a great progressive, but would still be an improvement over the lying Blanche Lincoln. Further, Arkansas remains a Democratic state at all but the Presidential level, and so that primary challenger might very well have a better chance in the general election than Lincoln.

Let's hope that primary challenge starts sooner, rather than later. Blanche Lincoln is a liar, and needs to be removed from office.

[coti]

1. Yesterday Lincoln said she would vote for cloture during her speech. nt

[babylonsister]

3. But she won't vote for the final bill if a PO is in there. She's a liar. nt

[coti]

4. That may be true but I was responding to your statement that she

"promises to filibuster any bill with a public option." She's just said she's voting for cloture.

[babylonsister]

5. She voted for cloture last night to bring the discussion to the floor, but

then she plans on voting against it. What good is that? And I refuse to defend her; she's a liar.

Edit to add this;

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/21/1500-arkansas-clinic/

Earlier today, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) announced today that she would provide the 60th vote “in support of cloture on the motion to proceed” to the health care reform bill. But Lincoln also stressed that she is “opposed to a new government administered health care plan as a part of health care reform and will not vote on the health care proposal introduced by leader Reid as it is written.”

[coti]

6. Seems to me cloture is the vote to end the debate, not begin it.

Her speech was this morning, though, before the beginning debate vote. Maybe she really was referring to that.

http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/cloture.htm

You'd think a senator would know what the word means.

[imdjh]

2. I wish she would change her name. It sounds like a trashy character in a B&W movie.