The Deafening Silence on Deficits
When it comes to aiding regular people who haven't bought members of Congress, every argument -- and especially deficits -- are cited as reasons to do nothing.
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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.
Blanche Lincoln Town Hall Overrun By Conspiracy Theorists
Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday--and the number of people who believe that the President has larded ...
Separated at Birth? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Blanche Lincoln
Katie Halper | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
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Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln and Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may not be in the same political party, but they're in the same camp when it comes to opposing health care.
Dem Sen. Blanche Lincoln Rakes In Health Care Dollars
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
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As the summer of the Democrats� discontent winds to a close, the head count for health care reform in the Senate begins in earnest. One of the key D...
Blanche Lincoln Reverses Position On Public Option
Roll Call | David M. Drucker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), still facing the prospect of a tough re-election in 2010, has reversed her position on the public insurance option, say...
Gilbert Baker, Former Arkansas GOP Chair, Announces Senate Bid
CNN | Martina Stewart | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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The former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party said Tuesday he's planning to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. "I have decid...
A Brief History of Arkansas Republican Senate Candidates' Bigoted Comments
Senate Guru | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
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A big problem for the Arkansas GOP is that several of the 2010 candidates for U.S. Senate in Arkansas have recently made racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise bigoted comments.
Card Check Cut From Employee Free Choice Act By Democrats
New York Times | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
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A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers. The ...
United Steelworkers and AFLCIO Lead Historic Arkansas March for Employee Free Choice Act
Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
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Civil rights and community leaders, local elected officials and union activists held the largest ever demonstration in Arkansas to demand that Sen. Lincoln support the Employee Free Choice Act.
An Easy Choice on Health Care
Mike Lux | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
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If the Democrats twist up this bill to make insurance companies and their Republican allies happy, it is end of story for this generation of Dems -- our party will not recover from screwing up health care.
EFCA Opponent Runs Ad Suggesting Unions Gag Employees With Duct Tape
The Plum Line | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
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A top union is demanding that an Arkansas TV station yank a new ad being run by the "Dr. Evil" of pro-business lobbyists that depicts workers as mobbe...
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
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We now measure economic progress not by whether unemployment is going down or up -- it's always going down -- but whether we lost more or fewer jobs than we lost the month before.
Tom Cox: Tea Party Organizer Running For Senate
CNN | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
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The Tea Party movement appears to have produced its first official candidate for national office. Tom Cox, the founder and chairman of the Arkansas...
As Senators Huddle Over Bill, Grass-Roots Drive, Pro-Labor Ads Pressure Wavering Dems (VIDEO)
Art Levine | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
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Senators, led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, are stepping up the pace of negotiations for a version of the Employee Free Choice Act that could be introduced by next month.
Union Targets Democrats With Significant Online EFCA Campaign
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
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One of the nation's largest unions is making a significant ad purchase targeting four Democrats and one Republican Senator on the Employee Free Choice...
Broadening the Campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
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The campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act continues to broaden.
As Chamber Lobbies, Its Paid Expert Says: No Unions, No Minimum Wage Law Needed
Art Levine | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
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This week, the Chamber of Commerce launches its most forceful lobbying effort yet to kill the Employee Free Choice Act and to end talk of compromise on Capitol Hill.
4 AM: 24-Hour Vigil in Little Rock
Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
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We are holding a 24 hour vigil for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act during this Memorial Day congressional recess.
Kim Hendren, After Calling Schumer "That Jew," May Abandon Senate Ambitions
AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Associated Press) - A Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas under fire for reportedly referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer as "that Je...
Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act
Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
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With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.
EFCA Backers Step Up Efforts, Begin Calling Out Democrats, Obama
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
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Whether out of despair, frustration, or the political calculus that more sheer aggression is needed, labor officials and progressives are taking a far...
Song Guy Who Wrote "Hey, Paul Krugman" Takes on EFCA
Jonah Lalas | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
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Firing someone for expressing an opinion should be branded "un-American" and identified as something you would expect from a dictatorial regime
Lincoln Under Siege From Both Sides For EFCA Position
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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Sen. Blanche Lincoln's decision to oppose the union-backed Employee Free Choice Act, two years after supporting it, seemed at the time to take a thorn...
Card Check Dilemma: How Can Well-Meaning Americans Be So Far Apart?
Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
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I am very hopeful that card check is dead for this Congress. The issue is divisive, harmful, and not a good use of time by anyone.
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