{"id":276915,"date":"2010-02-04T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65136"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:30:32","slug":"blanche-lincoln-hints-more-democrats-could-join-republicans-on-barring-terror-trials-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276915","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln Hints More Democrats Could Join Republicans on Barring Terror Trials in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"225px-Lincoln-portrait-2007\"It appears that Blanche Lincoln, like her Republican buddies, thinks terrorists are super villains with evil, magical powers.<\/a><\/p>\n

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More Democratic senators could sign onto a bill to bar funding for terror trials in the U.S. homeland, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Lincoln, who along with Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), has joined with Republicans to support a bill barring terror trials<\/strong>, hinted at potentially growing bipartisan consensus for the measure.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s others who are probably looking at it,” Lincoln said during an appearance on Fox News when asked if other Democrats could sign on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course she’s on Fox News.<\/p>\n

And why does Blanche think we’re incapable (unlike Great Britain, Spain, Israel, etc., etc.) of trying terrorists in the United States?<\/p>\n

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Lincoln explained her decision to join with Republicans as showing deference toward her constituents in Arkansas<\/strong>, where she faces a tough reelection battle from Rep. John Boozman (R) and other Republicans this fall.<\/p>\n

“You will definitely find from me that I listen to the people of Arkansas, their concerns, and then make a judgment on what’s right,” she said. “And I think they’re right on this.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ah.<\/p>\n

Well, since a clear majority of Arkansans favor the public option<\/a>, I guess this “listen to the people” thing is pretty selective.<\/p>\n

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It appears that Blanche Lincoln, like her Republican buddies, thinks terrorists are super villains with evil, magical powers. More Democratic senators could sign onto a bill to bar funding for terror trials in the U.S. homeland, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said Wednesday. Lincoln, who along with Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), has joined with Republicans to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}