Where’s Blanche?

by digby

As the Christian Science Monitor and virtually every other new organization is reminding us today, the success of health care reform is coming down to the wire and will depend on whether a very few perfidious Democrats decide to marginalize themselves by being teabagging heroes and blowing it up in the name stopping an impending socialistic takeover by the ACORN queens:

Where’s Blanche? Some moderate Democratic senators have yet to commit to voting in favor of letting debate on the bill to begin. In particular, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have expressed varying degrees of skepticism about the costs and possible government intrusiveness related to healthcare reform.

If Senator Lincoln and her fellow moderates abandon the majority leader, the health effort is toast. Reid must bring them into line if he is to have a chance of convincing the notoriously independent Independent Joe Lieberman of backing the bill, as well.

Blanche Lincoln, as you all know, is the scourge of Blue America PAC, which has been dogging her mercilessly since the 4th of July. Howie Klein saw from the beginning that she was the weakest link in the perfidy chain — she’s up for reelection. Maybe she figures she can afford to lose her Democratic base which supports the public option — lord knows the Creigh Deeds strategy is a winner. But she should do some thinking about that. Republicans always prefer to vote for Republicans and that doesn’t leave many voters left for her.

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All anybody wants at this point is for Lincoln and her cohorts to not join Republican filibusters. It’s not too much to ask.

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