BREAKING NEWS - NELSON ANNOUNCES HE'LL VOTE YES FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 12/19/2009 | Gary P..

[mo]

Pretty sweet deal..using our cash to bind our wrists and ankles....it ain’t gonna be pretty.

[nutmeg]

UNCONSCIONABLE and UNCONSTITUTIONAL

[Bryanw92]

For everyone that got their hopes up over Nelson, remember this: a Democrat goes against the Party to negotiate an extra handout. For them, the Party is everything.

[Hacksaw]

Nelson got 100% for medicaid forever for Nebraska according to reporter on CSPAN.

I don't even see how this is consitutional.

[bigbob]

And WHO is surprised?

Folks - THEY WON! They have had the votes since last November. If you somehow thought a “Conservative Democrat” was going to stand alone and stop Obamacare, well you’re just naive.

I don’t like it any better than anyone here does, but I’m tired of hearing all the shock and outrage. “Elections have consequences”...

Now what would be funny is if Rollie Burris or someone decides to pull his vote because the damned thing is not liberal enough!

[boycott]

Nelson got 100% for medicaid forever for Nebraska according to reporter on CSPAN.

I don’t even see how this is consitutional.

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I don’t see how they’re going to make my state subsidize this bs.

Why does my state not get this?

Any senator that votes for this and doesn’t get the same for his/her state, sold the people of their state short. They should consider this when they vote next time.

[Orange1998]

What makes matters worse is they will approve this on Christmas Eve of all dates.

[nathanbedford]

Many Democrats legislators are betting their careers that they can ride a media way of to reelection in November 2010.

They might well be recalling the way the media was able to grab middle America and stand it on its head in the wake of the Clarence Thomas hearings. At the conclusion of those hearings polls showed that the American people believed Clarence Thomas and did not believe Anita Hill. One year later, in time for the elections, public opinion had reversed itself and a majority now believe that that Anita Hill was telling the truth and Clarence Thomas was lying.

It is arguable that the reaction to those hearings spawned "the year of the woman" and the election of a string of female leftists into the United States Senate. That wave was also ridden by Bill and Hillary Clinton as Bill campaigned , "if you vote for me you get two for the price of one."

I do not think that the Democrats will survive the outrage they have created in middle America. First, the mainstream media ain't what it used to be nearly 20 years ago and it is not called dinosaur media for nothing.

Second, the people are outraged by what is happening to their pocketbooks and their bodies. In other words, the issue is not an academic one of the Supreme Court appoint but one which is very, very personal. I do not believe that the media will be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again by next November even though the provisions of the health care reform bill will not begin seriously to oppress Americans by that time. The really onerous provisions of the bill do not kick in right away.

Nevertheless, the means by which this bill has been passed are so sordid and implications for our children so ominous that it is unlikely that the electorate which has come to its conclusion about health care reform only after months and months of debate and exposure to the president endlessly pumping reform will easily abandon their convictions which they have come to only on serious reflection.

The timing of this is such that the president has lost his shine (no pun intended) and so have the Democrats in Congress. Pounding their chests in victory over the passage of this bill will not restore the image of either one. The public has already made up its mind and barring a national event such as a terrorist strike it has concluded that it wants to go back to the American way of checks and balances.

[JamesA]

House/Senate need all to be booted out. This is unacceptable when the majority of Americans say NO. Who the heck do these ELECTED think they work for? Surely not the citizens. I see some very dark clouds forming over the United States.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411184/posts

[catfish1957]

A great campaign graphic will be a headcount of the gov. paid abortions that his bloodied hands endorsed. Bye Ben!!!!!

[wewereright]

I agree - states are going to be paying billions in additional medicaid payments as a result of this bill - but not Nebraska??

[tutstar]

my vote is he was threatened

[conservativefromGa]

The public option is out, along with Medicare expansion. I consider this a huge victory for conservatives. Did you seriously expect the dems not to pass anything? All this stuff can be reversed in 2011 or 2013. A govt run insurance option would probably never get reversed, like Medicare or soc sec.

[NavyCanDo]

Need to work on a campaign 2010 theme for bumper stickers, signs, commercials, and such.

It worked for Reagan with his “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?”

Maybe - You shoved it down our throats in 2009, we’ll shove in up your (insert dem donkey) in 2010

or this - Are you better off than you were 4 Trillion Dollars ago?”

[Orange1998]

Coverage starts immediately for some. Hard to reverse it once its implemented.

[OldDeckHand]

"The really onerous provisions of the bill do not kick in right away."

What will happen, however, is that taxes will go up almost immediately, and from everything I've read, premiums for the already insured begin to rise by the 2nd quarter of next year. Some of that premium inflation, will be substantial - especially to families with children.

In short, for the 260-275 million Americans with health insurance, nothing is going to change, yet their existing insurance will become more expensive. That won't be helpful to the dems.

But, you make a good point about the big media propaganda that is a virtual certainty up till the 2010 elections.

[Cacique]

Let's stop pretending anymore. The United States has become a DICTATORSHIP!!

[Erik Latranyi]

The public option is out, along with Medicare expansion. I consider this a huge victory for conservatives.

You are a blind fool.

[3catsanadog]

Oh, they’ll start acting all “Christian” in their self-congratulation speeches and spouting all sorts of nonsense about how Jesus would’ve approved this bill, blah, blah, blah.