"How can you claim to be a Washington outsider while bragging about the pork you've hauled home for your constituents and spending campaign millions raised from special interest lobbyists?
I think you can guess that the scenario described by John Brummett applies to Sen. Blanche Lincoln." Arkansas Times, Arkansas Blog by Max Brantley.
"In Arkansas we have a nationally showcased U.S. Senate race. Our embattled, poll-lagging Democratic incumbent, Blanche Lincoln, runs a TV ad showing herself standing amid misbehaving children who are throwing money, a dollar bill of which comes to rest on the senator’s weary head.
This child’s play represents Washington, the senator sighs in visual metaphor. She makes our nation’s capital out to be a place where she looms taller than the infantile nonsense in which everyone else is engaging.
Her TV commercial gets paid for from $6 million she reaped because contributors perceived that she is a political insider.
This woman has been working practically all her adult life in Washington, first as a congressional staff member and then a young congresswoman before getting elected to the Senate a dozen years ago.. . . . We don’t need political outsiders nearly as much as we need political insiders who shoot straight with us about who they are and what they do. And that would be some politics-as-unusual" Self-loathing insiders By John Brummett
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