{"id":3172,"date":"2010-01-14T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T23:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2010-01-14T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T23:34:32","slug":"blanche-lincoln-and-the-liberals-litmus-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3172\/blanche-lincoln-and-the-liberals-litmus-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln and the Liberals&#8217; Litmus Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says Democrats have a big tent?\u00a0 According to reporting by <em>Politico<\/em>, Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31424.html \" target=\"_blank\">feeling the sting of Arkansas progressives<\/a> dissatisfied with her stances and voting record.\u00a0 Forget the fact that Lincoln is a reliable vote whenever the Democratic Party needs her.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, seemingly angry that her uncompensated support wasn\u2019t copied, she\u2019s called for fellow Democratic Senator Ben Nelson\u2019s (D-NE) \u201cCornhusker Kickback\u201d to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasbusiness.com\/article.aspx?aid=0.0.131581\" target=\"_blank\">stripped out<\/a> of the final health care \u201creform\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, the 15% of Arkansans that call themselves progressives are pining for the state\u2019s more liberal Lt. Governor, Bill Halter, to primary Lincoln.\u00a0 Her sins?\u00a0 Apparently, backing off support for \u201ccard-check\u201d legislation, not complying with an NAACP created quota for federal judicial nominees, and resisting a public option in health care \u201creform.\u201d\u00a0 On that last point, at least, Lincoln can claim to be <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703481004574646432914311634.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion \" target=\"_blank\">representing the majority<\/a> of Arkansas\u2019 voters.\u00a0 No matter.\u00a0 For today\u2019s Democratic \u201cbase\u201d promoting a majority opinion is enough to get you drummed out of the Party.\u00a0 Just ask Joe Lieberman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says Democrats have a big tent?\u00a0 According to reporting by Politico, Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), is feeling the sting of Arkansas progressives dissatisfied with her stances and voting record.\u00a0 Forget the fact that Lincoln is a reliable vote whenever the Democratic Party needs her.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, seemingly angry that her uncompensated support wasn\u2019t copied, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[738,531,737,741,739,740],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arkansas","tag-ben-nelson","tag-blanche-lincoln","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-liberal","tag-progressive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}