Comments on: Blanche Lincoln Wants A Trigger For Co-ops

By: Leen

Leen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:25:09 +0000

Hopefully the voters of Arkansas will dump this woman the next time around. Clearly she is not working for them.

enough of the trigger talk. The Insurance companies have had decades to do the right thing. They have not. Why give them another chance? Oh I know $$$

Pull the trigger all ready

By: marcopolo

marcopolo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:38:23 +0000

This woman is clearly motivated by nothing but venality. She’s absolutely awed by power and lusts after money. What a base human being.

By: toptier

toptier — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:39:32 +0000

How do people like this, who have no critical thinking skills, even get elected?

By: TomWells

TomWells — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:08:56 +0000

If she causes the public option to lose, then we must make sure she loses in 2010. Even if a Republican wins.

By: jrubin1

jrubin1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:42 +0000

The “trigger” she is talking about is the outing of her as Senator from Arkansas if he doesn’t support a Public Option.

By: whitewidow

whitewidow — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:29:57 +0000

Wow, the stoopid reaches new heights. She’s now come out for the “trigger” itself. Doesn’t matter what it triggers, Blanche loves her some trigger. Please – can’t we just trigger something? Anything?

Hamburger helper does just fine by itself.

Another parry in the public option squeeze play. That would actually be a step backwards from what progressives already don’t accept. A delayed effect on the compromise position. Can’t wait to hear how great this bipartisan idea is on the cable shows.

Blanche, get your corporate welfare gig lined up, because you are so outta here.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:16:39 +0000

Ah yes, 2017, by which time if we ONLY had no increase in the number of people without insurance (currently at close to 50 million), 360 thousand Americans will die due to the lack (eight times 45 thousand a year).

Millions more will go bankrupt, and god knows how many will get sick and possibly die due to denials and lack of care from garbage insurance.

A few tens of millions of American lives ruined…but let’s not rush into fixing anything now, shall we?

No other country of our wealth and stature allows this — so that must be what it is, that people like Senator Lincoln actually PREFER it this way, where individuals and corporations get filthy rich, while regular folks just get sick and die. Ah, the sweet stench of ruthless capitalism!

Blanche Lincoln needs to find another line of work…and we need to help her out the door.

By: Knut

Knut — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:44 +0000

Blanche get chatter all she wants, in the end she is going to have to bite the bullet on cloture with a PO, or failing that, vote the bill with PO that comes out of Reconciliation. She will have to make an open vote against her party and with the Republicans. I don’t think her Constituents will forgive her. They can always vote in a real republican, not a fake one.

By: ratfood

ratfood — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:00:05 +0000

Tennessee was certainly a great writer, wasn’t he? Hopefully he and life-partner Chumley were happier than the characters in his plays.

By: demi

demi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:54:01 +0000

Why do I want to yell, “Stelllllaaaa!”?