Today the Senate, a/k/a "Where Good Bills go to Die", found itself once again ground zero for the gridlock that has plagued Washington since the President Barack Obama became president and the Republican party decided that they were going to sulk like petulant children and use parliamentary procedure to effectively grind our legislative process to a halt.
Like we have seen so many times before, the Republicans aren't the only ones to blame. Today Senators Blanche Lincoln and her colleague from Arkansas Mark Pryor stood with the obstructionists to bar the Defense Authorization bill from coming to the floor for debate.
Senator Lincoln finds herself all but voted out of office. Barring of course a great scandal involving her opponent and has only herself to blame for her dilemma. By standing side by side with special interests and opposing some of the ideas that are at the core of her party, she in effect gave the Democratic party and their supporters no reason to support her. That is the reason she faced a primary challenge from Bill Halter which received great support from the base of the party. While some people might say that a republican majority in Congress would have a negative effect on the nation as a whole, and it would. What good is a Democrat who is willing to stand with the Republicans and support bigotry or corporate interests? Blanche Lincoln turned her back on the base of her party and will have only herself to blame when she loses her bid for re-election.
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