Sen. Blanche Lincoln suffered what might be one of the all-time greatest campaign staff fails this morning. According to her campaign staff, Lincoln was initially turned away when she tried to vote at her home her polling place this morning after elections officials discovered she had already requested an absentee ballot be sent to her Virginia home. Poll workers told Lincoln their records showed she had already voted.I’ve got to think that kismet is not on your side if you are stopped while trying to vote for yourself. Maybe a sign of things to come?
"She just wanted to be prepared," campaign spokesperson Katie Laning Niebaum told me a few minutes ago. "She has requested absentee ballots on many past occasions."
Lincoln didn't fill out the absentee ballot this time, her staff no doubt eager for the classic casting-the-ballot photo op this morning. But, thanks to this mix-up, she's stuck with the less appealing "filling out the provisional ballot so elections
officials can determine if her vote is legal or not" shot instead
Showing posts with label Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Here's Your Sign
Today’s “vote early/vote often” story comes courtesy of TPM:
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Robert Gibbs does the puppet dance
Washington Examiner:
Let's face it, politicians say all manner of crap when they are out on the campaign trail. Nobody believed Obama when he said during the campaign that he had never heard the good Rev. Wright's anti-American rants, why for pity sakes did anyone take him serious when he said (repeatedly) that the health care debate would be covered on C-Span? He was lying. Instead of hectoring Obama's personal Pinocchio Robert Gibbs the press should jst go with the following lead: In the absence of any explanation, plausible or otherwise, for why President Obama refuses to keep his campaign promise and allow C-Span to cover the health care debate, we have concluded that President Obama is a liar. See how simple that was?
On the other hand if Democrats in the House and Senate bought the president's shtick that they would be worse off with the voters if they didn't pass health care, then shame on them. To have dips like Lincoln and whores like Nelson singing the blues now is just pathetic. Had they listened to their constituents instead of a president who is all about being "historic" they wouldn't be in this mess. (Hint: the sinking of the Titanic was historic; the massacre at Little Big Horn was historic)
What a sorry bunch of self serving, delusional wastrels we have in Washington. We'll be much better off once they all decide that now is a good time to retire.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span. Gibbs said he had not seen a letter from C-Span's Brian Lamb to congressional leaders requesting the coverage and thus could not comment on it.If Robert Gibbs is going to do a song and dance I would kindly suggest that he don a top hat and tails and class it up a bit.
On Wednesday, Gibbs was asked again about the C-Span commitment. The story had gotten pretty big in the intervening time, and presumably Gibbs had had a chance to familiarize himself with it. So reporters tried for a second day to get him to comment on the president's commitment to holding televised health-care talks. Gibbs' answer? "We covered this yesterday." Gibbs referred reporters to the transcript of Tuesday's briefing and said, "The answer I would give today is similar."
Let's face it, politicians say all manner of crap when they are out on the campaign trail. Nobody believed Obama when he said during the campaign that he had never heard the good Rev. Wright's anti-American rants, why for pity sakes did anyone take him serious when he said (repeatedly) that the health care debate would be covered on C-Span? He was lying. Instead of hectoring Obama's personal Pinocchio Robert Gibbs the press should jst go with the following lead: In the absence of any explanation, plausible or otherwise, for why President Obama refuses to keep his campaign promise and allow C-Span to cover the health care debate, we have concluded that President Obama is a liar. See how simple that was?
On the other hand if Democrats in the House and Senate bought the president's shtick that they would be worse off with the voters if they didn't pass health care, then shame on them. To have dips like Lincoln and whores like Nelson singing the blues now is just pathetic. Had they listened to their constituents instead of a president who is all about being "historic" they wouldn't be in this mess. (Hint: the sinking of the Titanic was historic; the massacre at Little Big Horn was historic)
What a sorry bunch of self serving, delusional wastrels we have in Washington. We'll be much better off once they all decide that now is a good time to retire.
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