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Kerosene Blanche

by BooMan
Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 11:14:53 AM EST

We'll have a day of annoying speeches in the Senate and then sometime around 8pm we'll have a vote on cloture/motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill. The only remaining questions are whether Max Baucus can make it back from Montana for the vote (his mother is ill) and whether Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will join the other 59 members of the Democratic caucus and vote to proceed. Joe Conason notes that the Big Dog weighed in on this issue at his presidential library in Little Rock.

It was Bill Clinton who uttered the most pungent criticism of [Blanche] Lincoln in recent days, however, although he didn't mention her by name. Speaking at a luncheon to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of his presidential library in Little Rock on Wednesday afternoon, he berated the opponents of reform for preserving a system that spends far more than other developed countries for worse care -- at least $900 billion annually, according to his back-of-the-envelope calculations.
Clinton asked his audience, which included hundreds of Democratic donors and activists, to imagine a scenario in which he could somehow run for a third term as president (which drew enthusiastic applause). Then he asked them to consider what would happen if he offered the following campaign promise:
"If you elect me again, the first thing I'm going to do is put a $900 billion tax on you ... I'm going to have the government print the money, and put it on elevated flatbeds, and display it along the national mall. And we're going to broadcast this ceremony on national television. And then I'm going to motor myself from one end of that $900 billion to the other, sprinkling Kerosene on it, and then I'm going to set it afire and watch it burn.
"How many people do you think would vote for me?" he demanded. "If you don't want to reform healthcare, that is your position. That is what you are advocating."
Lincoln wasn't there, but she could have heard the roaring laughter all the way back in Washington.

No one is going to be laughing if Blanche Lincoln gets this vote wrong except Republicans.

Kerosene Blanche | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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So far, Leahy, Bennet, and Wyden have given their speeches. Tom Udall is up now.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 10:52:54 AM EST

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It makes me uneasy when Clinton starts getting involved in the health care debate. It does remind Democrats of the enormous failure of 1993.
I do hope this vote goes well. If so, well, that's a first. A true sign of hope that two class system is beginning to be chipped away and the upper crusties will lose power.

by utried on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 10:59:09 AM EST

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I think Clinton is very helpful, especially in Arkansas. Arkansas likes white Democrats.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 11:13:32 AM EST
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Arkansas likes white Democrats.

Bingo!! I hate having to remind people that Cranky McSame winning Arkansas doesn't mean a damn thing. There were polls showing, after Obama was the nominee, that while he lost there big, Hillary would have smoked McCain just the same were she the nominee. Yeah, I know that says something about Arkansas.

by Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:30:06 PM EST
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Kit Bond says he feels like mosquito in a nudist colony, there are so many targets in this bill that he doesn't know where to hit.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 11:14:27 AM EST

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~~President~~ Senator McCain continues his reputation for comity in the Senate.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 11:17:44 AM EST

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I can't stand Jeff Sessions' voice.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 11:34:45 AM EST

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The nice thing about cloture votes is that they can be brought up later after the nitwits come to their senses--assuming they do.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:11:33 PM EST

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Landreiu is up next.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:29:10 PM EST
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Oh shit, Landreiu let Cantwell go first. Not good.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:29:43 PM EST
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Where is Huey Long when we need him?

by Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:32:40 PM EST
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My tweet sources say Landrieu is a 'yes' vote.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:38:27 PM EST
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a "Yes" for now .. we'll see about the cloture vote

by Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 06:49:25 PM EST
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Landrieu will vote to proceed, but warns that her vote today should not in any way be construed as an indication of how she will vote at the end of the debate.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 12:50:13 PM EST

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Whenever Orrin Hatch says "isn't it true," take a drink, cuz it ain't.

by BooMan on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 01:20:06 PM EST

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that we're even at this point - having a debate on whether or not we're going to debate this after 60 fugging years, is RIDICULOUS.

by rikyrah on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 02:39:34 PM EST

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having a debate on whether or not we're going to debate this after 60 fugging years, is RIDICULOUS.

It just shows you what a bunch of clowns a lot of the Senate is

by Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 06:50:23 PM EST
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