Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) held a town meeting at Arkansas Tech in Russellville yesterday, but so far I can't find a link for it. Accordingto the ADG today, the crowd was loud and unruly. She tried to walk a tightrrope, it seems to me. She's for government incentives and subsidies to create public health insurance, but opposes a "fully government-funded new entitlement" because we can't afford that right now. She thinks that taking the uninsured into the system will reduce costs. The money would come from eliminating waste and inefficiency.
I can't imagine what all that wordage really means, and neither could most members of her audience. Nearly all of their questions were critical of current health care plans, and the audience increasingly interrupted her. Obama was not a good name to bring up either.
Lincoln has been criticized for not holding town hall meetings earlier, and now she has scheduled a handful of them, only to prolong her pain. Six opponents have already lined up to challenge her next year for re-election.
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