Posted on 01/25/2010 5:40:44 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
uh-oh another major Dem retirement? RT @blanche4senate Stay tuned for an important campaign announcement tomorrow morning. - ed henry CNN VIA TWITTER
Blanche Lincoln's site says announcement coming in morning...
Oh my stars and garters! The hits just keep coming.
Wow........we are going to stomp the Dems.
We are taking the House and the Senate.
The handwriting is on the wall...all we’re seeing now us who knows how to read.
Dropping like flies?
Who’ll run in her place, Jim Guy Tucker?
Michael Steele, you’re a genius!
But do you suppose she means to leave before her term is up?
More than blanched she’s cooked.
Blanche Lambert Lincoln
United States Senator, Arkansas
On November 3, 1998, Senator Blanche L. Lincoln made history when she became the youngest woman ever elected to the United States Senate at the age of 38. Lincoln made history again on September 9, 2009, when she was tapped as Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. In the Committee’s 184-year history, she is the first Arkansan and the first female to serve as Chairman. She follows in the footsteps of the only other woman to win a statewide U.S. Senate race in Arkansas and the first woman to chair a U.S. Senate committee, Hattie Caraway of Jonesboro. As a tribute to her predecessor, Lincoln uses the same desk on the Senate floor that Senator Caraway used more than 60 years ago.
Senator Lincoln’s tenure has been marked by an expanding list of accomplishments, a willingness to seek bipartisan solutions, and a fierce loyalty to the people of Arkansas and their shared values.
As Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, Senator Lincoln provides Arkansas a strong voice on issues important to rural communities. Lincoln played a key role in brokering the compromise that led to passage of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. Also known as the “farm bill,” this legislation provides more resources for nutrition, conservation, rural development, and renewable energy than ever before. The 2008 farm bill also maintains a safety net for our family farmers who produce traditional commodity crops so that they can compete in the global marketplace.
Senator Lincoln also has emerged as a national leader in the fight against hunger. She founded and currently chairs the bipartisan Senate Hunger Caucus to help focus the attention of her colleagues and the nation on the millions of American families, especially children, who suffer from food insecurity.
As one of the Finance Committee’s top-ranking Democrats, Lincoln was named the first woman Democratic Senator to lead a Finance Committee Subcommittee and is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy for the 111th Congress.
In addition, Senator Lincoln serves on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Senate Special Committee on Aging. From these platforms, Lincoln will continue to be a leader on a wide range of issues, including farm policy, nutrition, forestry, social security, health care, tax policy, international trade, energy policy, aging issues, and benefits for Arkansas’s military service members, veterans, and their families.
Having established her leadership on issues affecting working families and veterans, particularly those living in rural areas, Senator Lincoln was named by Majority Leader Harry Reid as Chair of Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus. In that role, she helps frame the majority party’s initiatives to revitalize rural America, including new investments in biofuels development, farm programs, and education.
Senator Lincoln is at the forefront of efforts in Congress to end partisan bickering and get results for the American people. She helped form the Moderate Dems Working Group, a new coalition of moderate Senate Democrats who work with Senate leadership and the new administration to craft common-sense solutions to our nation’s most-pressing priorities. In addition, she co-founded and currently co-chairs “The Third Way,” an organization dedicated to crafting practical and creative solutions to old problems.
Senator Lincoln was first elected to public office in 1992 as U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s First Congressional District. A seventh-generation Arkansan, Lincoln is a Helena native where her mother, Martha Kelly Lambert, still resides. Senator Lincoln received a bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and studied at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Senator Lincoln and her husband, Dr. Steve Lincoln, are the proud parents of twin boys, Reece and Bennett.
http://lincoln.senate.gov/about/Biography.cfm
I think I heard this on Glenn Beck this morning
Another one on the way?
When will the Palin ‘quitter’ haters come out and lambast their own for doing the very same thing?
Don’t you love the smell of napalm in the morning?
“Stay tuned” is right . .wow.
Uh uh uh uh
Another one bites the dust
Apparently internals are not good at all for her...at least that’s the discussion on Twitter. She feels too much pressure to leave. Something is up...doesn’t that make 2 from Arkansas today?
We need to have enough patriots at the Tea Party in DC on 15 April so then even 0bama will know we’re there!
I am reminded of the scene from the Godfather II when Tom Hagen promised Frank Pantangeli his family would be taken care of...
You forgot the /sarc tag.
Seems like the democrat failboat is taking on water.
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