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Ret. Marine| 5.17.10 @ 6:27AM

Gee where have we heard this before.
I won't want to make a claim to the demonrat party either. With this type of voting record, ( all the wrong players in this mess called the democratic partry) coming from the very people raping their cities, counties, and state coffers of opm, other peoples money, one would think this type of evil would slink away to the hole she crawled from, but this is just me. In todays political storm, the dem's brought this upon themselves, they own it, they deserve what they get, the boot.

drudge ette obama| 5.17.10 @ 6:59AM

It must be so confusing to Blanche how this all happened.

Stand for something good for America, Blanche, then stick with it. See you in the unemployment line. Maybe you can become a health care worker and join SEIU.

Stephie| 5.17.10 @ 9:09AM

OUCH!

Alan Brooks| 5.17.10 @ 9:59AM

You Repuglicans talk about competition but when it comes to Lincoln not wanting to be saddled with wingnuts in her party (or if anyone were to mention a 3rd party cutting into GOP votes) you don't like it.
'you have a right to say what you like as long as we agree with it.'
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12th Commandment: never criticize a fellow Republican unless she gets Uppity.

danfromatlanta| 5.17.10 @ 12:05PM

If you want to post here and be taken seriously, please stop posting while on drugs! maybe if you wait until you are lucid, your posts will make some sense!

Alan Brooks| 5.17.10 @ 2:14PM

Look, Southin' boy,
I KNOW she is a Dem, but I do not go by party-affiliation. To me she might as well be Republican. I don't like Antle damning her with faint praise in such a smarmy way: he writes she still votes 100 percent of the time with NARAL, 90 percent with the AFL-CIO, and 85 percent over the course of her career with Americans for Democratic Action, the gold standard of modern liberalism.
Antle is writing that she is goo, he doesn't respect her but basically he is saying "after she's outlived her usefulness as a foil against real Dems, throw her on to the junkpile where she belongs."
But I like Lincoln.
Good for Lincoln.
Up yours, Dan. And may all confederates & copperheads burn in hell forever!

SC Patriot| 5.17.10 @ 10:40PM

Why do you want the Confederates and Copperheads to burn in hell forever? I would think you wouldn't want us in your future home.

Christopher Holland| 5.18.10 @ 3:19AM

I spent most of the 1970s and 1980s stoned and Alan Brook's hallucinations get drugs a bad name. The guy needs to spend a lot more time looking at sunsets and sunrises and listening to Frank Zappa music. After that he might be able to act normal.

JmsA| 5.19.10 @ 12:24PM

It is actually the eleventh commandment, Mr. Brooks; and in case you haven't noticed, we're cleaning out our house.

john| 5.17.10 @ 10:09AM

Right ON!!!

Alan Brooks| 5.17.10 @ 2:19PM

I like the WEST, not the South.
Jefferson Davis, LBJ-- the two worst Americans-- came from the South.
Southern politics are swamp politics.

Don't worry, you wont see me there.

NoToObama| 5.17.10 @ 3:49PM

Go away you freak, American hating Yankee.

jd| 5.17.10 @ 5:18PM

Brooks, your comments on this site are always stupid.

Charles Martel| 5.18.10 @ 2:16AM

The always oblivious Brooks continues to post here because he is incapable of shame.

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SC Patriot| 5.17.10 @ 10:45PM

You are right about one thing. I won't see you there. I'll be up in heaven sippin sweet ice tea with lemon. Mmmm, Mmmm!

JmsA| 5.19.10 @ 12:34PM

"Southern politics are swamp politics."

How about northeastern politics such as Albany, NY, or midwestern politics, such as in Springfield, Illinois, where your idol, the One hails from--don't swamp politics reign supreme there?

ggoblue| 5.17.10 @ 7:12AM

so the dem governor gives up the statehouse, divides his party, and the republicans win the senate seat and the governorship????

169 days until we can make it happen....hehehe

Mimi| 5.17.10 @ 8:23AM

TO: ggblue, I just checked ya! Yup one hundred and sixty nine days (169). How will we patriots spend those days?..... Walking the streets and yes in the inner, of inner cities! Of any AMERICAN'S these people need to hear a message of truth & principles. They have ,and will be hurt the most with the " Spread The Wealth" ideology. We must TALK to all our friends and neighbors....about the goodness and principles of our cause. If every one can get 3-5 others convinced to go to the POLLS and vote for AMERICA's future. WE sure have our work cut out for us , KEEP BLOGGING, WALKING, & TALKING.Yes 169 short days....To defeat the 2006 congress of SPEND,SPEND and SPEND some more. And to send a striking message to the current White house!!!

Seismedia| 5.17.10 @ 3:02PM

@Mimi,

Good comment. All politics is local and more than ever before, big ad dollars are going to fail this time around. Talk to your friends, neighbors, strangers, everyone you meet and go out and meet new people. Spread the word that socialism is a plague and a blight and the temptation to let others take care of us is bound with chains to the reality that debt and dependence is slavery and bondage. White, Black, Hispanic, Vietnamese, Laoutian, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Banker or Insurance Man, we're all going to pay the same price if we let Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Lincoln, Durbin, Schumer, or any of these marxist technocrats take us over the edge.

Notquite| 5.17.10 @ 12:30PM

Halter is the Lt. Gov. not the Gov. (Mike Beebe) so don't expect to see Arkansas change Gov. but Beebe would have been a much better general election canidate so it is for the best that he didn't run for senate.

Northern Rebel| 5.17.10 @ 8:56AM

WOW!

Wait, I'm pretending to care!

How'd I do?

Politics is a filthy game, and it consumes and spits out their ilk at a rate unmeasured by normal standards.

But not fast enough!

I used to be against term limits, because I thought the ballot box should serve at it's own version of such, but I have SEEN THE LIGHT!

The only way we will be able to elect honest politicians who say what they mean, is to insure that being a US SENATOR is not a fuckin' gravy train!

Get in. get out, make a difference, and do it quick, 'cause yer gone!

I know we have a socialist style economic meltdown, and a ridiculous illegal immigration issue, and desert scum after our heads, but the most important thing tea party people can do is force term limits on politicians!

They won't do it themselves!
DO IT!!!

TERM LIMITS NOW!

Your thoughts?

Conan the Grammarian| 5.17.10 @ 9:45AM

Amen, N. Rebel. Term limits now. It would take a constitutional amendment, but it needs to be done. And term limits for the federal judiciary too.

Sam| 5.18.10 @ 1:59AM

Rebel + Conan,
Not gonna happen and thank god it won't. America was founded on an independent judiciary of judges that serve in good behavior. I think the founders knew what they were doing. Term limits is another bad idea- it's what's killing us in California right now.

1FreeMan| 5.17.10 @ 9:52AM

There should be a term limit, I agree. However, there is a "stick" that comes with the carrot:
1) The huge life-long retirement check each Congressman/Senator gets is like winning the lottery. THAT must be addressed!!
2) What do we do about the last-term lame-ducks that have nothing to loose and decide to vote whichever way the graft (SEIU et. al) tells them to vote?
3) Ethics... we need real non-party ethics in both houses to address the war profiteering, SEIU bribery, sexual assault on interns and pages...

Term limits with controls that support the people, not the politicians.

JmsA| 5.19.10 @ 12:45PM

Hear, hear!

keith| 5.17.10 @ 8:57AM

Good ridance Blanche. The state will do much better with a true Arkansan representing our values. And I certainly don't mean Halter either. I pray you kept some of that hope and change in your pocket. God knows you and your party took it from us.

Northern Rebel| 5.17.10 @ 9:01AM

DRUDGE REPORT:

Greece may sue US banks for economic woes!

Unbelievable.

GB| 5.17.10 @ 11:27AM

Why not! Obama has blamed the banks for our economic problems. The Greeks are just learning from our dear leader.

Christopher Holland| 5.18.10 @ 3:23AM

Trust not Greeks bearing suits

FTM| 5.17.10 @ 9:08AM

I personally think that the progressive/liberal/socialists, whatever they're calling themselves this week, are going to get gooned pretty good in November. There is a problem however. I don't hear the conservative contenders saying things that I want to hear either.

First things first, President Bush added dramatically to the national debt. President Obama has been on a spending rampage since being elected to office. The result, based on the activities of BOTH parties is that we have a national debt now in excess of 14 trillion dollars. Our national debt along with the debt of sundry European Countries is poised to pretty much turn the lights off in all of the civilized world.

This potential turning off of the lights is a bad, bad thing.

I want to hear politicians, Democrat and/or Republican talking about radically reducing spending. Get the US out of the UN, get the UN out of the US. Get the US out of NATO and Japan and South Korea. Abolish American participation in GATT, the WTO and NAFTA. Get the US out of the world cop business.

I don't think that America should be or even could be isolated from the rest of the world. However, as I have said before, Chrysler, Ford and GM should have the same opportunity to sell cars in Japan that Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi and Subaru/Isuzu have to sell cars here. That means build the cars in the US and export them to Japan. If the Japanese people do not want to buy American cars then it is incumbent upon American manufacturers to build a car that the Japanese buyer may well be interested in. It's called a free market. As it stands at present the only country that a car built in the US can be exported to is Canada. Same goes for rice grown in the US, at present we can't sell rice in Japan. Why is that? Why can't American wine producers sell wine in France?

At present we, American state governments, PAY the Japanese and the Europeans to build cars in the US through tax incentives and the like then turn around and tell Chrysler, Ford and GM that they need to learn to compete. What kind of crap is that?

Drill for the freekin' oil already. We got a bunch in Utah, we don't even know for sure how much, just that there's a bunch. We don't even have to drill under water to get to it. How can you screw this up? Alongside of drilling for oil how about building some modern refineries to process the oil that we drill. I think that's a good idea. Once again I can't see that this will cost the American taxpayer a dime. I think that there are plenty of legitimate private sector businesses that will pay top dollar to drill for or process oil in America. Truth is the federal government would probably make money out of the deal if they could avoid the temptation to spend it on some socialist engineering pipe dream.

Abolish the federal income tax (of 35%) on businesses. Businesses don't pay taxes anyway, customers pay taxes. Businesses just launder the money for the government. Abolish the federal income taxes on business and GM would be sending busses to Mexico to recruit workers pretty much taking care of the illegal immigration problem.

We have several alternate power producing technologies. How about we get the show on the road and build the plants here in the US instead of the Pebble Bed fission reactor technology that we're pretty much building in South Africa and the ITER Technology that we're screwing around with in France. How about we get the show on the road with the traveling wave reactor technology.

Till some politicians start making noises about reducing the US national debt by reducing spending and getting the American economic show back on the road I have other things to do come the first of November. Such as trying to figure out how to configure WiFi internet access on a netbook running BackTrack4. Anybody know how to do that?

Mattled| 5.17.10 @ 9:18AM

Good points FTM----thew Feds (Conservatives) need to get some coaching from Chris Christie.

On how to handle the media too.

Danny K.| 5.17.10 @ 10:14AM

"Just like the far right, I think the far left also believes that you've got to be with them 100 percent of the time or you don't meet the test," she told the Hill.

Blanche, Blanche, Blanche, we tea partiers don't require you to be with us 100% of every single vote. We do, however require you to be with us 100% of the time when it comes to increasing our costs and increasing the size of government. Another writer said it succinctly in another post: You people are taking from people that don't have much (the middle class) and trying to play Santa Claus to buy votes. Government is big enough as it is. You and Ben Nelson, and Olympia Snowe, and Lindsay Grahamnesty and all the rest of the RINOs and DINOs fan feel free to rearrange and even, heaven forbid, cut the pie you already have, but you are not getting a single penny from me for your socialist redistribution schemes. That means NO health care, NO cap and tax, and NO NEW TAXES OR SPENDING PERIOD.

The Angry White Male threw a "temper tantrum" (according to Peter Jennings) in 1992 and 1994. We are about to throw another one of biblical proportions in 2010. You people just don't get it.

SDProg| 5.17.10 @ 6:42PM

Are you one of the tea partiers who believes in enlarging the military-industrial complex? If so, please try to be consistent. If you are aginst big government then you should be against the enormous levels of defense spending. Obama has actually cut taxes for 95% of working Americans this year. I'm not a huge fan Of Obama, but he did in fact do this. No health care? Name me a single health care system in the developed world that's sustainable and doesn't feature fairly extensive government intervention. Yes, we can do better than cap and spend, which was originally a Republican idea, so what do you suggest? No new taxes or spending then I guess you are okay with our infrastructure crumbling.

FTM| 5.17.10 @ 10:21PM

SDProg,

With the exception of North Korea, Communist China and the former Soviet Union, name one modern nation state that has single payer health care that we, meaning the US, doesn't provide national security. Point being that if France, for example, had to pay to keep the mother loving Russians out of Europe I very seriously doubt that they'd have a national health care system. Think back intio the dim, dark past of your education, have you ever heard the phrase "Strategic Umbrella?"

In regards to the ChiComs, the Russians and the North Koreans, would YOU want to be cared for in their system?

Lastly, in regards to President Obama's tax cuts, compared to the debt that the man has accrued I think that your position is laughable. What do you think that your tax rate will be when the bills all come due?

Time to embrace the unimaginable, America is bankrupt. The Bush administration was a joke and the Obama adminmistration is the most expensive disaster ever to befall the USA. The origin of the disaster that we inhabit being the first "Great Depression." The situation that we're in isn't President Obama's fault but he sure isn't doing anything to make things better.

SDProg| 5.18.10 @ 12:47AM

You mean the debt that has largely been accrued due to an inept health care system that pushes medicare outlays up? You mean the deficit has grown in a recssion where revenues fall and automatic spending goes up? The stimulus will not have a significant impact on our long-term debt situation as its spending is only temporary. The stimulus was aimed at getting the economy moving again, which is arguably the best thing that can be done to address the deficit. I had my qualms about how the stimulus was designed, but most economists believe it had a positive effect. Also, the United States does not face the sovereign debt crisis many deficit hawks would have you believe. These web sites should be of help: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/, http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/,

Charles Martel| 5.18.10 @ 2:25AM

"A positive effect"? Not even Barry's own economists are pushing that line.

The obscene overspending of the 111th Congress was both voluntary and unnecessary. And the debt that resulted (and is projected to grow at the same rate forever) is unsustainable. When interest rates inevitably rise, you Obama- and Pelosi-defenders will still be singing the same hymn of praise, but our children and grandchildren will spend their whole lives servicing that debt -- that is, assuming that the whole structure doesn't simply collapse of its own weight when the day arrives that we hold a Treasury auction and nobody shows up.

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SDProg| 5.18.10 @ 10:40PM

Except the debt won't grow at the same rate forever. Also, the deficit hawks aren't telling you the whole truth: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/, http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/. I have my issues with the way Congress spends money, but the stimuluswas only a temporary measure and thus will not have a major impact on our long-term debt situation. I also have my problems with Obama and Pelosi, but I'll defend them when it comes to the stimulus, despite some problems I have with its poor design.

FTM| 5.18.10 @ 11:33PM

It seems to me that you are serious in what you say. It also seems to me that this "stimulus" as you call it is nothing more than a political slush fund to be used at the discretion of whatever politician that is allowed access, money to be used to pander to whatever political constituency that you think may be of advantage to you. In regards to a model to review pertaining to government "stimulus" spending I refer you to the fiasco that Japan has endured since the 80's and government spending. Pretty much petpetual recession.

As for the soverign debt crisis, Californis, Illinois, Massechusetts, Michigan and New York, perhaps more, all have significant budget deficits that they are all agitating to have the federal government bail them out over. Now, me personally, bailing out private businesses was a bad idea and bailing out state governments is a bad idea too. Socializing bad decisions is a bad idea regardless of who is the object of being bailed out. How does one learn not to make bad decision if one does not suffer the consequences of having made a bad decision?

From my chair my opinion is that we, the US, has developed a habit of spending as if it were the 1950's. Money, wealth, is no longer abundant. We've pillaged away the seven trillion dollar socialist security trust fund and mortgaged away an almost equal amount in government securities being the world cop and paying little girls to have babies. The money is all gone. Bottom line is this, when you have spent more money than you have spending more doesn't make the situation any better.

SDProg| 5.19.10 @ 11:44AM

FTM, it appears like you didn't visit the web sites I linked to. Istrongly encourage you to do so and you will learn that we don't face a social security crisis. This should also help: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn01_6.pdf. I also think you're taking the wrong lesson from Japan: http://online.barrons.com/arti.....article=1.

Sue| 5.17.10 @ 10:15AM

She stood her ground on health care, she voted against the status quo. I give her huge kudos for voting what she believed to be the right thing for her constituents, than letting staying true to "party lines" sway her against her beliefs.
As for the SEIU, I'd say let's fight against them to!
They are who really run this country, and it's time to put them all in their place! They have money. SO WHAT! We have VOTING POWER! I urge all of you to get out and vote your convictions and not let power and money be your guide.

Northern Rebel| 5.17.10 @ 11:10AM

!Free man:

Your #2 point says everything needed, and is the very reason WHY term limits are necessary! At least they are not doing it their whole 59 yr career, Like KKK Bird, or the dead swimmer.

We also have to take responsibility for our vote. Elections have consequences.

The old song is accurate:
You get the kind of government you deserve.

Well, not all of us. I live in northern NY state, and I certainly don't deserve the shit I'm force fed up here.

But I do my best to engage others, without being obnoxious, and turning their blinders back on. It's the least we can do for America.

1FreeMan| 5.17.10 @ 1:33PM

NR,
Do I know you? You sound like me. My wife laughs when I tell people in town who complain about politics and what do we do now "Voting has consequences".
Term limits, tort reform, real ethics with prison terms for the convicted... it is time to CLEAN HOUSE!

Hey, isn't the SEIU violating monopoly laws. It's like a syndicate, only worse. Didn't they break up Bell Telephone for this very same kind of stuff?

Gr0w1er| 5.17.10 @ 1:08PM

The picture headlining the article says it ALL. Quid pro quo, Senator Lincoln.

FTM| 5.17.10 @ 2:49PM

Growler SSG 577?

Will Rogers SSBN 659

Red Phillips| 5.17.10 @ 2:06PM

Dang! When I first read the headline I thought this article was going to be about liberals bashing Abe.

SC Patriot| 5.17.10 @ 10:48PM

Yeah, me too. But you got to admit this one is pretty fun too.

htr| 5.17.10 @ 2:59PM

Blanche Lincoln may be the best the Democrats can hope for in a year like this and a state like Arkansas. I say this as a progressive, tree hugging, pro-effective government citizen. Let's face it: Democrats have to think about how they can better "explain" their issue positions. Then it may be possible to create an environment conducive to the election of more liberal Democrats. But right now Senator Lincoln can at least help the party organize the Senate (committee chairs, staff, etc.) and provide support behind the scenes. A liberal can't do that if he or she isn't electable.

Charles Martel| 5.18.10 @ 2:36AM

"Pro-effective government"? Is that what you're calling it now? Try again: that one just doesn't roll off the tongue without the rest of the body trying too hard to laugh.

But at least you have the Obama line down pat: if you Leftists would explain it to us just a little better than the last hundred times you tried, we, the great unwashed hoi polloi, would finally come to see the unfailing wisdom of Obama-thought.

A nagging question though: why would a thoughtful conservative people voluntarily elect more liberal Democrats? Is it not obvious to you yet that the reason you have to keep changing what you call yourselves is that we reject your philosophy.

But you're right about one thing: the lame duck Lincoln will have one use left, rearranging the deck chairs on the Harry Reid's Titanic.

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DW| 5.17.10 @ 5:40PM

They could not call themselves communist so they became liberals. When they were found out as liberals they had to become progressives. Now that they occupy the white house and can institute their marxist doctrine, they call themselves democrats. Know what we are fighting and give them no quarter.

SDProg| 5.17.10 @ 6:15PM

DW, I see that you are another one of the indivdiuals the self-described rodeo clown, Glenn Beck, has failed. Marxist? I have not not seen the elimination of private ownership and the institution of full government ownership over the means of production, but I guess that's just me. Do you know what the rest of the world is like? Do you realize just how far to the right even mainstream American conservatives are?

1FreeMan| 5.17.10 @ 8:48PM

SDProg,
The world be dammed. Just like it was when Hitler was cooing Europe and we were being courted to "join the forward thinking europeans and join Hitler's revolution for Eurpoe."

We chose another path and men are free as a result.

Thank you but NO. Americans, USA Americans, will not follow the rest of the world into marxism and the socialist mess they have created. Thank God we are to the right. You think we are the last bastion of freedom because we are followers?

You want ot be like the rest of the world then move to the homeland of your savior; Kenya is nice this time of year if you don't mind malaria, AIDS and fammin.

You are such and idiot!

SDProg| 5.17.10 @ 10:22PM

Really? You're really going to bring up Hitler and the Nazis? I didn't know Nazis are currently in charge of countries like Norway. My savior? I've been quite critical of Obama for some of his policies, but he has done some stuff I like though. I hardly revere him. Last bastion of freedom?

SC Patriot| 5.17.10 @ 11:40PM

It is funny that now that the left has made the word "liberal" a dirty word, they are now calling themselves "progressives". I never really believed "liberal" was very descriptive of lefties. Thomas Jefferson was a liberal. "Progressive" fits y'all much better. When I hear "progressive", I think first of a progressive illness where the illness gets progressively worse until the victim dies. Kind of like what you guys are doing to America.

Carol Mosly Braun| 5.17.10 @ 6:45PM

Lincoln is a decent democrat. This is a tea partier telling you that. Anyways by a large the american people have a decision this november 2010. Either support the democrats most if not all of which voted for the government to interfere with your healthcare. Not only that but they have:
1. lumped all of us in the cesspool of dirty welfare recipients.
2. bill clinton allowed the 911 hi-jackers to train for 4 years at american pilot schools prior to 911.
3. obama keeps hiring government workers away from the private sector. every government employee is paid directly with private sectors tax dollars.
4. if you haven't notice barac obama hire exclusively based on skin color. the only thing affirmative action does in reality is give the dumbest people in society a chance to screw up a job.
5. barac, maxine waters all spoke of nationalizing the oil industry even before brac couped into office through the efforts of acorn. barac has subsequently nationalized gm and many large banks buying the votes of lazy and unintelligible union workers with private sector decent american's paychecks.
6. barac and georg sorous along and possibly reverend right and bill ayers planned to get barac elected by having barac fannie and freed welfare homeloan organization make home loans to people on welfare. this action caused your 401K to go down 40% delaying if not destroying a once comfortable retirement.
Between now and Nov 2010 barac will ceaselessly attack the institutions of the US such as Kagan an avowed ant-military homosexual who doesn't believe in free speech. Look out because boy wonder barac is on the march just as chavez is.

JmsA| 5.17.10 @ 7:08PM

I guess her staunch defense (and vote) for Obamacare didn't help her much. It's nice to see them eating their own.

SDProg| 5.17.10 @ 10:23PM

Liberals don't like her because she fought against the public option, which actually had majority support in Arkansas and around the country.

Nick| 5.17.10 @ 11:19PM

Liberals don't like her because liberals are delusional.

JmsA| 5.17.10 @ 7:17PM

Take a good look at Blanche's picture above, folks. Quite a few democrats, as well as rinos, like the cry baby Bennett, will be sporting that look come November. Big day tomorrow for Snarling Arlen. Go Toomey!

Big Sky Country| 5.18.10 @ 7:38PM

Blanche will never be in the unemployment line. She received thousands from those in Arkansas who employed illegals. She always thought of them as her "special" friends. She never blinked an eye while Slick Willy's hometown, Hope, filled up with them, and it never bothered her about the influx of crime, school problems, and run down neighborhoods. She was too busy making money.

Scottzzzdale| 5.19.10 @ 5:50AM

It's too late for the libtard/dem/neo-communist movement. Worst of all their atrocities is obamacare, forcing the bill through even as the country tried to stop it. It's too late for obama, he's insulted the citizenry as Teabaggers with his own words: how disgusting is that? No leader has shown so much hatred for his country and it's people in such a sinister fashion. We are united as Republican, Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Independents in that we want this OAbomination out of office as soon as possible.

Tenn SLim| 5.19.10 @ 11:33AM

Opine
Comment from a Arkansasan, local cafe.
"A poxon Lincoln, Holter and the entire Dems."
The local NE folks fully get the drift of the OBNA and abhor the Leftist drive.
They Will Prevail Come November.
Semper Fi
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