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Blanche Lincoln's Forcefulness

Arkansas Times

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln still won’t say yes or no on whether she’d go along with a Republican filibuster against any bill containing a public option government insurer.

But she did manage to express herself a tad more forcefully on the health reform issue in a phone conversation Tuesday.

She says she’s been plenty specific, thank you, working for months — years, even — in the Senate Finance Committee on an arduously negotiated and perfectly fine bill put out under the leadership of chairman Max Baucus of Montana.

She says, “I told Harry — Majority Leader Reid — that he could pass the Finance Committee bill, but . . .”

Full story here.