Morris on GOP women's victories in Tuesday's primaries: "One of the first nights" women "changed American politics" (From the June 9 broadcast of Fox News' Fox & Friends) Long post here, sorry, but must run and wanted to try and elucidate something.two parts so it will be accepted.
It's not about respect or power-it's about advancing an agenda, however it's best to get it done.Īnd while I'm here, I've stopped listening to Jane Hamsher ever since her Fox and Friends, kill-the-bill freakout. But all this smack talk sounds more like "the left needs to stop getting rolled" kind of complaining. She's the most useless member of the Senate caucus and some democratic outlet had to be found after the tension of the last two years. My own opinion is that I had no tears to shed for Blanche. Would $10 million have been better spent in swing House races where some candidates might have been decent on labor's issues? Possibly, and that's really the WH official's point.
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Labor's priorities in the race have less to do with being subordinate to the WH than it was about how to best further their agenda. AFL spat in the news, but everyone's taking this primary way too personally, and it's affecting the tone on the blog. Greg, It doesn't look like it will do any good given the WH v. Next: SEIU officials: Blanche Lincoln should forget about our support in general election
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* And Angle's campaign vows she's no Rand Paul, and won't be giving national TV interviews. * The conventional wisdom is that Angle's win has all but ensured Harry Reid's reelection, but Paul Kane explains why this may not be so. * R.I.P., chickens for checkups: Sue Lowden was defeated last night by Tea Partyer Sharron Angle. * Not if Nancy Pelosi has anything to say about it. * Sarah Palin, in her latest Facebook post, calls on Obama to do less talking about the Gulf spill, or to do more talking about it, or something. * Big headline that Dems will like, from National Review, on Nikki Haley's and Carly Fiorina's wins: "Palin's Party." "My name is Eddie Vale of the AFL-CIO and I'm proud to fight for working families and I don't hide behind anonymous quotes." From union spox Eddie Vale, mocking the official's anonymity: * The AFL-CIO goes public with its pushback against the White House. * Jed Lewison is appalled by the self-defeating nature of the White House's insulting of labor, saying it's "weakening the Democratic coalition." It DID force Lincoln to introduce a tougher derivatives bill. Netroots pressure and labor pressure DID work. * Before you conclude that the talk about derivatives is just empty Netroots chest-thumping, listen to Marc Ambinder: They're supposed to take what, another six years of black eyes from Blanche Lincoln just because you say so? If their $8 million buys derivatives legislation and limits the damage that the Masters of the Universe can do to the world economy in the future, it's not only a bargain, it also means that a bunch of nurses and janitors have done more to rein in the banks than you and your entire pack of servile, visionless Wall Street lackeys has done since you took office. Labor is not your bitch, and their money isn't yours to direct.
* Jane Hamsher, on the anonymous White House official who urinated on unions for flushing $10 million "down the toilet": John Boozman, the next senator from the great state of Arkansas." * Markos says labor and the left won't lift a finger to help Blanche Lincoln: "So say hello to Sen. We're gonna try to sort through this a bit more later today. So the warring and recriminations are likely to continue, with unforeseen political consequences for this fall and beyond. While these efforts are clearly hitting some walls, it seems like some sort of unseen line has been crossed, where labor would prefer to mount losing challenges than to do nothing at all. If anything, unions are likely to step up efforts to exercise their democratic right to back candidates against Dem incumbents who are bad on their issues. * Now that the smoke has cleared from the Arkansas war, it's clear that the Lincoln-Halter contest ripped the lid off of simmering tensions between the White House and organized labor - and that these tensions aren't going away anytime soon.
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