Fresh off attacking health care and Democrats in her first primary ad, Lincoln is now trashing labor unions:

[D.C. unions] are right -- I'm not working for them; I work for you.

Those outsider unions sure do give Lincoln heart palpitations! Well, at least now they do, because she used to love them.

Although she’s attacking working families and their unions today, Lincoln sang quite a different tune in 2004 when she was grateful for the backing of the Arkansas AFL-CIO, along with more than $260,000 in working families’ PAC donations. Said Lincoln at the time: I’m honored to receive the endorsement today from the Arkansas AFL-CIO for my work in the Senate to improve the lives of Arkansas working families. Her strong support for Wal-Mart, headquartered in Fayetteville, and her silence about the company’s virulent anti-unionism and labor law violations, has earned her the nickname “the senator from Wal-Mart.” Lincoln was also just one of two Democrats who voted to block President Obama’s nomination of respected attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Says [Arkansas AFL-CIO President Alan] Hughes: Only someone who has become a career politician in Washington, D.C., could spend 10 years asking for our support, take hundreds of thousands of dollars from blue-collar workers, then turn around and attack us as outsiders because we wouldn’t help her this time around. Those are not the values people in Arkansas believe in.

Lincoln panicked and decided that the best way to get reelected in this tough Democratic year would be to mimic Republicans on health care, the environment, and labor. She decided that saying "NO!" to the entire Democratic agenda would appeal to her constituents, that blocking reform would somehow earn respects and votes.

In reality, she lost the left, the right laughed at her, and independents became disgusted at her pointless grandstanding. She lost everyone, and is now a guaranteed loser, whether during the primary in May or in the general in November.

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