In Heat Of Primary, Blanche Lincoln Does Not Get Credit

I wouldn’t trust Lincoln on this – or anything – until she promises support for an effective remedy that can be enacted. All she’s doing so far is finding fault with the current vehicle for reform; in that, she’s functionally no different from McConnell.

Scherer should really send a portion of his paycheck to YouTube.

Those SEIU thugs…

Wait! Is someone suggesting that Blanche Lincoln’s 11th hour conversion is disingenuous?

Wow. If we can’t trust our Senators, who can we trust?

We can trust Freep.
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To be predictably dismissive.

BTW, kudos to MS for this. A vast improvement over his earlier stenographic post (that claimed that anonymous Wall-Street opponents were pleasantly surprised with the pro-reform stance of Lincoln and the WH).

How can you explain complicated situations in 30-second ad spots?

Nfl, here’s my (kinda serious) try. What ad would you think of?
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(cue scary music like this… http://www.cnbc.com/id/27702658 …a terrible choice of music for an on-air profile ad, and those ads weren’t too hot)
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“Do you believe banks and other companies dealing with our money supply be allowed to manipulate the mortgage market, putting YOUR home at risk?
Do you believe Wall Street should trade complex securities outside of an open market and cause a recession when they make bad bets, putting YOUR job at risk?
Do you believe that when they fail they should be allowed to remain in business no matter what they did, putting YOUR savings at risk, no matter how big or small they are?
If you say NO, enough already, then vote for Stormy Daniels. If you say YES, then vote for Rusty.
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This ad was paid for by SEIU and ACORN….”

It’s easy if you are a republican, you just lie.

No fear for Lincoln. She would be dead if this were a GOP primary and she was fighting the tea party. But Dems are not that dumb, and they will understand Lincoln is the only electable candidate in the field. Labor chatter is meaningless.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

de — Nice try, but you’ve lost anyone with less than a college education. You may think you’re going for the gut, but you made the mistake of involving the brain. Who on earth is going to understand “trad[ing] securities outside of an open market”? Not to mention that as long as there’s an FDIC, no one’s savings (up to whatever the limit is these days — 250K I believe) are at risk. Okay, you were writing for “we commenters” (as a certain K Tumulty recently described us), but still …
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“Blanche Lincoln wants to make sure that the fat cats on Wall Street stay fat even if the rest of us have to starve. Don’t let her do it. Vote for [whoever the other person is].” A bit too intellectual still, but closer to what I think you’ll see in real life.
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Mencken was right, and so was Barnum.

Yeh, just add “I AM” then everyone gets it

Bobell, good point. I concede this, although I bet more people “get it” to some degree when it hits home personally. My parents didn’t go to college, but they understand mortgage abuses from neighbors who suffered them. They don’t know the fine pts. about swaps (nor do the firms that traded them, but I digress), but they understand them as“unofficial” insurance policies. They saw in ’08 that as the market tanked we all were going to fall in the toilet with it. You’re right about simplifying things, so I hope our swampfriends (and at the CC blog too) will clarify finance reform issues for everyone.

Blanche Lincoln doesn’t know if she’s a democrat or republican. And she doesn’t know what her constitutients want. All she cares about is her own re-election, no matter what she has to say or do to get there. She’ll change her mind about everything eventually.