This is only the beginning of what is coming to many of our elected leaders who are concerned about their lust for power and not the people. It is going to get much uglier than this.
Hmm. Looks like Benjie had a Dan “Rostie” Rostenkowski moment there at the pizzaria.
The smarmy democrats voting for this POS bill can prevent this by never going home - staying in DC where they can pat each other on the back constantly.
Get the hell out of here sums it up for all rinos!....
LOL! Nelson is a POS. Nice job Cornhuskers - give him h*ll.
I wish people in Florida would heckle and berate our liberal idiot Dem Bill Nelson.
Shun them all...
Too hot in the kitchen?? Maybe Conservatives will make it too hot in office for him!!
We need to shame and ostracize politicians and family members who give aid to the destruction of our culture. They MUST be required to pay a price and to pay it in a public and embarrassing way.
I have told the communists in my family that they, and people like them, are my personal enemies and will be considered as such as long as they support the destruction of our culture. They love what I hate and hate what I love, why would I want to socialize with them anyway. We have NOTHING in common.
We need to stop making nice with our enemies. It gets us nothing. May this be the first of many incidents like it.
Who'd have thunk it?
(Well done, restaurant customers!)
LMAO Bump!
Excerpt from a blog quoting a story from Politico.
Here, cut out the middleman. Original story (NOT on excerpt-only list):
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31488.html
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife were leaving dinner at a new pizza joint near their home in Omaha one night last week when a patron began complaining about Nelson’s decisive vote in favor of the Senate’s health care bill.
Other customers started booing. A woman yelled, “Get him the hell out of here!” And the Nelsons and their dining companions beat a hasty retreat.
“It was definitely a scene in there,” said Tom Lewis, a 41-year-old dentist and registered Republican who witnessed the incident. A second witness confirmed the incident to POLITICO.
It’s a new experience for Nelson.
He used to be a popular figure back home, a Democrat who served eight years in the governor’s office and was elected twice to the Senate by a state that’s as red as the “N” on the University of Nebraska’s football helmets.
But Nelson has seen his approval ratings tumble in the wake of his wavering over the historic health care bill, his deal-cutting with other Senate Democrats and, ultimately, his support to break a GOP filibuster and send the bill to a House-Senate conference committee.
Nelson, who has a track record of brokering bipartisan deals, said for months that he was unsure whether to back a Democrats-only bill, and he criticized language in the measure that would impose taxes and cut Medicare costs in order to pay for extending coverage to most Americans. But after weeks of negotiations, Nelson made his peace with the bill by striking deals on his state’s Medicaid costs and on abortion language — and, in the process, incited a furious backlash in Nebraska.
Anti-abortion activists who have supported him in the past have abandoned him; he’s been the target of a fierce campaign by opponents to push him to block the bill on final passage; and the GOP now sees the opportunity for a pickup in 2012.
Meantime, Nelson is still viewed warily by more-liberal Democrats who distrust his conservative leanings and remain upset with his opposition to a public option.
“He’s kind of a man without a state,” said Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life, an influential anti-abortion group that had endorsed Nelson’s previous election bids but has “pretty much cut [its] ties” with the senator over the abortion deal in the health care bill. The group plans a rally Jan. 30 in front of the state Capitol in Lincoln and will weigh whether to use its influence to go after Nelson ahead of 2012, when he is up for a third term.
The state Republican Party has set up a website calling for voters to eject Nelson from office, and it has already raised “tens of thousands of dollars” for advertising, according to Mark Fahleson, chairman of the state party.
And Democrats in Washington worry that the pressure may cause Nelson to defect in the end, particularly since the senator — once again — has made clear that his final vote on the bill is not guaranteed.
Nelson, who declined requests for an interview, is responding to the blowback with a major effort to reverse public opinion, criss-crossing the state county by county and holding interviews with a slew of local newspapers and TV and radio stations. He has explained his vote and the deals he made in several newspaper op-eds, held a news conference outside his home in Omaha and made a “sizable number” of calls to individual voters who have written him to express their concerns, according to his spokesman.
BTTT
Some may remember the House Post Office Scandal and the treatment that then Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski got from his constituents -- chased down the street by a mob of senior citizens.
Our founders knew how to handle these self-aggrandizing traitors too. I highly recommend all here to read The First American Revolution by Ray Raphael. It recounts the Tea Party-like activities of Massachusetts patriots before Lexington & Concord. It came out a few years ago and was little noticed at the time. I've just been re-reading it and am struck by the parallels to present circumstances. Many may find it a useful manual for more hands on action than placard waving and emailing.
Pitchforks and torches in 2010; throw the bums out.
He was never in any real danger with that massive hair helmet protecting him.
Hey people are po’d and rightfully so.
Way to go, restaurant patrons...next time, tar and feather him while you're at it.
The question is, did Nelson try to use part of his 30 pieces of silver to pay for his meal?
Perhaps during the Viet Nam War, but even then, I do not recall politicians being driven from public places.