{"id":682516,"date":"2010-03-04T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70618"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:30:24","slug":"blanche-lincoln%e2%80%99s-genius-pitch-to-arkansas-democrats-i-opposed-the-public-option-also-democrats-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682516","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln\u2019s Genius Pitch to Arkansas Democrats: I Opposed the Public Option; Also, Democrats Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"275\" height=\"223\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DDopnb1H_Zg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this brand new Lincoln campaign spot. I&#8217;m trying to decide what the most tone-deaf aspect of it is.<\/p>\n<p>Is it that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She brags about her opposition to the public option when <a href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/lincolnpoll\">83% of Arkansas Democrats and 56% of Arkansans overall<\/a> are in favor of it.<\/li>\n<li>She compares the public option, which would help middle and working class people have access to affordable health care, to TARP.<\/li>\n<li>She accuses the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress of literally throwing away the American people&#8217;s money.<\/li>\n<li>She claims to be accountable to &#8220;Arkansas&#8221; and not &#8220;her party&#8221; &#8212; which implies the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t give a shit about Arkansas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One Tough Lady? Let&#8217;s make Blanche One Former Senator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/billhalter\">Donate to Bill Halter&#8217;s campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/bill-halter\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bill Halter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/blanche-lincoln\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blanche Lincoln<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" rel=\"tag\">Democrats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/dinos\/\" rel=\"tag\">DINOs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/senate\/\" rel=\"tag\">Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70618&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70618\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this brand new Lincoln campaign spot. I&#8217;m trying to decide what the most tone-deaf aspect of it is. Is it that: She brags about her opposition to the public option when 83% of Arkansas Democrats and 56% of Arkansans overall are in favor of it. She compares the public option, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ryk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}