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1. thebert99 Says:
   March 4th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

   Wouldn’t shifting her position mean that she had actually taken one?

2. norgi Says:
   March 5th, 2009 at 7:06 am

   I don’t know who you have to be to get a “don’t worry” from Blanche Lincoln. Oh, wait, I remember now:
   Stephens Group $30,900
   DaVita Inc $29,500
   Wal-Mart Stores $25,800
   Tyson Foods $24,750
   Goldman Sachs $24,000
   AT&T Inc $23,500
   Weyerhaeuser Co $22,000
   Entergy Corp $21,982
   JPMorgan Chase & Co $21,857
   Blue Cross/Blue Shield $21,000
   Hartford Financial Services $20,500
   Connell Co $20,000
   Alltel Corp $19,500
   National Thoroughbred Racing Assn $19,500
   Bryan Cave LLP $19,000
   College of American Pathologists $18,000
   Acadian Ambulance Service $17,999
   Pfizer Inc $17,500
   National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn $17,249
   Triad Hospitals $16,500

3. davidjsanders Says:
   March 5th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

   The criticism often made by Lincoln’s detractors is that she isn’t smart…politically speaking. I fundamentally reject the criticism. In fact, Lincoln has shown herself to be a fairly shrewd political operator who manages to get a lot of mileage out her eventual positions on controversial issues.

4. norgi Says:
   March 6th, 2009 at 7:42 am

   Misdirected (or directionless) shrewdness is not helpful.

5. davidjsanders Says:
   March 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

   It’s never directionless

6. norgi Says:
   March 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   Hard to decide which is worse.

7. Lefty Says:
   March 9th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

   It’s going to be a long next several years for business. It looks like at least 58 Senators (w/ Franken seated) support EFCA, and Nancy Pelosi could pass this in the House on her worst day with one hand tied behind her back. The President supports it, and you have to assume NLRB will be more and more labor friendly with each passing month under Obama. Republicans found a slippery parliamentary way to get Bush’s tax cuts through the Senate in 2001 without requiring 60 votes, I’ll bet Democrats and labor get crafty on this. Also, it looks like the big players undecided on this (Lincoln, Pryor, Spector, Landrieu) are all of the moderate type that would love to cut a deal. What do the 2010 Senate elections look like, it could get even harder for business, couldn’t it?

8. davidjsanders Says:
   March 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

   I’m not comfortable making political predictions this far out — who knows what will happen in six months? That said, the Republicans are stuck and aren’t moving anytime soon, unless, of course, the President does something to help.

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