Big Night for Progressives in Senate Primaries: Sestak Beats Specter, Halter Halts Lincoln, Conway Wins KentuckyPosted by Adele Stan at 11:14 pm
May 18, 2010
Tonight the political operatives on the Obama team got a big lesson in an old political adage that they had, perhaps, found quaint: You gotta dance with the one what brung ya.
Progressives tonight are basking in victories deemed impossible months, even just weeks, ago, with outright victories in two primaries for U.S. Senate, and a possible victory in a third. All required them to take on the political power of the president they helped to elect. You can’t blame them for gloating.
The article goes on to give analysis of the various races, but I instead, would like to post my gloat right here:
Arkansas
When, during an appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show” in the midst of the health-care debate, FireDogLake’s Jane Hamsher threatened Sen. Blanche Lincoln with a primary challenge, people though Hamsher was either full of bluster, nuts, or both. Tonight, nobody’s laughing.
Together with Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald, Hamsher founded the PAC, Accountability Now, choosing as its first candidate Lieutenant Gov. Bill Halter, who tonight garnered enough votes to deny Lincoln the Democratic nomination unless she wins a run-off election against him.
What got most under progressives’ skin about Lincoln was her posturing on the health-care reform bill that passed earlier this year. She opposed the public option, and threatened to play spoiler until the very end. But there’s little about Lincoln that is progressive at all, and she’s a friend to corporate interests, particularly agribusiness.
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http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/18/big-night-for-progressives-in-senate-primaries-sestak-beats-specter-halter-halts-lincoln-conway-wins-ky/:evilgrin:
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