[screaminsunshine]

Brbed and thretened. But in the end he is just another fellow traveler with the rest of the Communist party USA. Welcome to the USSA.

[scooby321]

Has any Democrat ever stood in principal? Vote the out in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

[95 Bravo]

In the end, he’s a Democrat before all else. This should be no surprise to anyone.
Damn them all!

[fatnotlazy]

Guess this turnaround doesn't surprise me. The party will do whatever it can, even resort to terroristic threats, to keep their members in line.

How much longer till the 2010 elections?

[boycott]

The aborted babies from states that don’t opt-out should be dumped on his grave.

The people of Nebraska should be embarrassed.

[Russ]

Words fail me. I have been on FR for over 12 years but if I said what I’m feeling right now I would be banned for life....

[Ted Grant]

Freepers seem bent on ‘breaking’ this news all day.

[Westbrook]

“Breaking News” only in that it’s the latest development.

But it’s hardly a surprise.

[skeeter]

Darn, missed the weekly news cycle.

[truthkeeper]

"Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced to his caucus Saturday morning that he would support the Senate reform bill, clearing the way for final passage by Christmas".

Well thank God he cleared this up...I was on the edge of my seat.

[TornadoAlley3]

Cspan, Reid being asked by reporter what Nelson got for his vote, Reid will not answer:) Reid says a number of different senators got a number of different things.

[Cheetahcat]

Another follower of Barry Charles Manson Obama.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[tutstar]

my vote is he was threatened

[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?”