Another nail in her coffin – Blanche Lincoln will vote for cloture on jobs bill aka Stimulus 2.0

Stimulus-BudgetDespite Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s criticisms of Porkulus 2.0 aka the new $15 billion “jobs bill”, she will still vote for cloture on the bill, as she continues to seal her fate for the November 2010 election. According to Politico, her announcement Friday afternoon is an indicator that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is succeeding in holding key Democrats together to support a scaled-back $15 billion measure he announced last week.

“I do not think Arkansans want us to stop at a ‘slimmed down’ effort to put people back to work,” Lincoln said in her statement. “Sen. Reid’s alternative does contain provisions I support, but I see no reason we cannot move forward on the Baucus-Grassley measure, which does more.”

To break the filibuster, though, Reid still needs to secure at least two Republican votes.

Jim Manley, the majority leader’s spokesman, said that a cloture vote is still scheduled for Monday despite an announcement Friday afternoon that stomach cancer will prevent Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) from returning in time to vote.

Lincoln supports each of the four key provisions in Reid’s bill, but she and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) released a letter Friday calling on Reid to reconsider his rejection of the bipartisan compromise agreed to by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

Reid has spoken with Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and other Republicans to try to win their votes, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has applied pressure to prevent Republican defections.

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February 19, 2010 · Filed Under Democrats, Porkulus


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  • peter c

    The arrogance of these people is boundless.They know they are putting the rope around their necks by continuing to support all these progressves biulls America just does NOT want….but still do it! Are they that arrogant that they think the American peole will still voite for them? That they will forget all this? That They will forgive them….that they just can’t be smart enough to se through their insane agendas and spending?

    This woman and Obama and Pelosi and reid and the rest will go down in American history as the worst Congress and President in America’s History and yuet they still think they are right…the people are wrong and stupid and they will win election again and again. Unreal!

  • peter c

    The arrogance is boundless.!