Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln gives us a first taste of what a Democrat in a vulnerable position will do to have a chance in November. She isn’t going to win a lot of friends within her party with her first campaign add.
Lincoln depicts her fellow politicians as a bunch of kids fighting and throwing money into the air.
Then she tells us about her accomplishments in Washington: voting 1) against money for Wall Street, 2) against the auto company bailout, 3) against the public option health care plan and 4) against the cap & trade bill.
Ok, but isn’t this how Republicans voted (except that they didn’t support Obamacare after an explicit public option was dropped)? Aren’t Republican being accused by Obama of being obstructionists and the party of “no”? So now Democrats who want to have a chance in November try to sound like Republicans?
The reason Barack Obama has not been able to pass much of his agenda is not because of Republican stopping him. After all, his party has a huge majority in the House and, until the election of Scott Brown, had enough votes in the Senate to stop a Republican filibuster. No, the real reason why Obama cannot pass his initiatives is because he is so far to the left of mainstream America that Democrats with a survival instinct from moderate districts and states are stopping him.
Watch and enjoy:
And she ends with: “I don’t answer to my party, I answer to Arkansas.”
