Good Thing He Is Not Up For Reelection Next Year
Dec 30, 2009 Political
Ben Nelson bowed to his party against the wishes of his constituents on the health care takeover bill that was rammed through the Senate. Nelson is now seeing the result of his betrayal as a new Rasmussen poll finds that he trails a potential challenger by 31 points and the next election for Nelson is more than two years away.
Nelson has recorded a 30 second commercial to be aired during the Holiday Bowl game featuring Nebraska and Arizona. In the message Nelson will tell voters that he listened to them and he believes that this is a common sense approach. The poll indicates that they are not buying what Nelson has to sell and he must realize this or he would not be airing the commercial (which will also air a few times in the next couple of days).
Nelson is trying to convince people that he did what they wanted though they know he did not. The majority of people in his state did not want the health care bill but he bowed to pressure from Harry Reid and Barack Obama rather than paying heed to what the people wanted. The poll shows he was on the wrong side of the issue and if he really feels that he did the right thing then he should not worry about the election.
Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life said that one has to wonder if Nelson misjudged the level of opposition from his constituents to this legislation or if he has decided not to “ever seek office again.”
The only thing Nelson has going for him is that he is not up for reelection until 2012 and maybe he felt safe because of that. A lot of things can happen by then but I am pretty sure voters will not forget how he betrayed them.
Nelson chose party over the people who put him in office and he will eventually pay a price for his decision.
Don’t think for one moment that any potential challengers will neglect to bring up Nelson’s vote throughout the entire campaign.
Good. This guy needs to go. He has no spine and he has no conviction.
Source:
JournalStar
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Ben Nelson Becomes Latest Democrat Whore
Dec 20, 2009 Political
When push comes to shove Democrats go for the money rather than their principles. Ben Nelson of Nebraska became the 60th vote for Harry Reid and the health care bill after hours of arm twisting and deals in a smoke filled room. Nelson did not get what he wanted with regard to abortion but he got some concessions for his state and the cost of Medicare which means the other 49 states will get cuts while subsidizing Nebraska.
Nelson became the latest Democrat whore who sold out and disregarded what his constituents want in order to side with Democrats in the Senate.
Ben Nelson signed his own political death warrant. He will not be reelected which might have been part of the deal to begin with. Nelson faces a 61%-26% deficit with regard to the number of people who will not vote for him if he votes for the bill. He will not be able to overcome this and he knows it.
Don’t be surprised to see Nelson announce that he is not running for reelection and then don’t be surprised to see him get a job in the administration. Maybe he will get appointed as some kind of czar or something.
Regardless, his seat will end up going to a Republican as will Dodd’s and Reid’s (and probably a few others). There will be no more stranglehold on government by the Commies and Socialists who are trying to ruin this country.
Be funny if all these guys stake their career on this and then lose only to have it all ruled as unconstitutional by the SCOTUS.
This issue is not about YOU. It is about making that child in the White House look like a leader. The bill lacks the public option, the Medicare option and many other things that were removed to buy off votes. Even all the liberal morons who back the Democrats are calling for them to kill this bill.
The libs wanted to overhaul health care but most now believe the bill becomes a payoff to the insurance industry.
How ironic.
At least Nelson got to drop his drawers and bend over for the cause. The Chicago thugs got to him and he lacked the testicular fortitude to stand his ground. Nelson got his 30 pieces of silver, Landrieu got her 300 million pieces and Lieberman got something to get him back in the concentration camp. Maybe they promised to leave his wife alone or threatened to give him a shower, cowards . I can’t figure Lieberman out. They went against him and backed Lamont and they screw him every chance they get but he keeps getting back in line to get screwed..
Well, this will be fun over the next year or so. Obama has made big deals with pharma (a broken campaign promise) and now it appears as if he will screw them in the future. He screwed those who supported him by giving them a watered down health care bill.
Did you notice that they wheeled Senator Byrd in there in a snowstorm for his vote. I agree with Dick Morris that if he wants to be a Senator then he has to do the job but what kind of people would do this?
Been kind of tragic if he died from all of that just so they could get a vote they needed.
Then again, the Democrats don’t really care about people as long as they get what they want. look at how many will lose jobs next November.
I think Republicans will take back both Chambers of Congress.
We can thank people like Ben Nelson for that.
Sources:
Washington Post
Gateway Pundit
UPDATE: Ben Nelson will not be up for reeelction until 2012. He will go then or if we are lucky he will resign before then. Looks like I might be unfairly casting hookers in a bad light.
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