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Tea Party Will Lose For Winning
Oh, is that the spin the Glob is putting on it?
"Questions raised about power of progressives
WASHINGTON — The progressive leaders meeting in Washington this week were savoring the prospect — all but a certainty in their minds — that they would claim their first scalp on Tuesday.
Speaker after speaker said it would not be the last, declaring that the push to hold centrist Democratic lawmakers accountable to the party’s liberal base would continue beyond Arkansas.
“We are going to hold their feet to the fire until they act like real Democrats,’’ former Vermont governor Howard Dean said. “Those are our seats, not their seats. They serve at our pleasure, and you’re going to see some of that [Tuesday] in the primaries in Arkansas.’’
But as Senator Blanche Lincoln proved by winning the bruising Democratic primary runoff, Democrats do not necessarily serve at the pleasure of the party’s left flank.
WHEN have they?
Wars are still raging, single-payer was shelved, the environment and economy are going to hell.... what have liberals gotten from their leadership?
I am still wondering how much more bending over liberals are going to accept.
It's why I can't respect them anymore.
Lincoln survived a massive and unprecedented mobilization by labor unions and liberal advocacy groups in Arkansas, raising questions anew about the political power of the progressive movement.
What power?
Even though Halter was leading in the polls?
Related: Arkansas' Black Eye
So liberals are allowing ANOTHER STOLEN ELECTION to pass without challenge?
Labor alone spent about $10 million on the race, airing an onslaught of advertisements assailing Lincoln for her connections with corporate interests and paying hundreds of workers to canvass on behalf of her runoff opponent, Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter.
What a WASTE of MONEY, huh, Americans?
High-level union organizers poured into the state in the closing days of the campaign, feeding facts and figures to reporters to tout the likelihood of Lincoln’s defeat.
Lincoln’s win stunned labor and progressive leaders. But regardless, they said every penny spent to support Halter was worth it.
They are INSANE, folks!
YOU LOST BIG-TIME!
Forcing Lincoln into a race for survival, they said, demonstrated to other moderate Democrats in the country that support from the party’s liberal base cannot be taken for granted.
Even as THEY ARE!!
Related:
"Congress had treated abortion rights as a mere “bargaining chip’’"
Forget that, did you?
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I could have saved this post until tomorrow morning but you can also drink coffee or tea at night.
