Posted on 12/15/2009 1:46:57 PM PST by moose2004
The White House meeting Tuesday between President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats has raised expectations that they have nailed down 60 votes for the health care bill.
But as he prepared to leave for the White House with other senators, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told POLITICO the deal wasn't done.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Rush said today that Nelson was being threatened with the loss of a military base in his state. These people need to grow up, and get kicked out next November!
We will see. If they passit, we go to SCOTUS.(wise Latina notwithstanding)
Anyone think that little Benny is feeling some HEAT: http://omaha.com/article/20091215/NEWS/712159842
“Rush said today that Nelson was being threatened with the loss of a military base in his state.”
If that were true, why hasn’t he gone publi with it?
No sale......(or Nelson is just another coward)
The silence of Landrieu and Lincoln is deafening. Did Landrieu get another $300 MM for her cloture vote?
Oh any by the way I am ON Offutt AFB as I type this.
I thought this said...
Nelson: ‘I’m not on the pill’
But at his age he wont be getting any kind of pills if ObamaCare passes...
I have zero faith in the SCOTUS on the issue.
They threaten his state,
and they are threatening Lieberman’s WIFE.
This was posted on politco at 1:38PM EASTERN and the article states that Obama would make a public announcement AFTER the meeting.
Jim Robinson posted his thread at 3:17PM EASTERN, so it looks like Obama didn’t manage to convince Ben Nelson to vote for it....yet.
The thing you have to keep in mind is that Reid, Durbin, Schumer, & Obama are all pushing the facade that the bill is “inevitable”. It is not, and the cracks are on full display. The deal is NOT done, and we can still kill the bill - maybe with the help of leftists like Dean and Kos.
Washington D.C is full of thugs. This is no different then then watching gangs operate in South Central, same thing. Intimidation tactics, making threats. Anything it takes to cram this socialist agenda down America’s throat
All I want for Christmas-—
1. ObamaCare gets aborted.
2. Obama’s trip to Copenhagen is fruitless.
3. Obama’s poll numbers drop a couple of more points.
I believe all three can happen in the next 10 days.
I sometimes listen to KFAB from Omaha and heard that Nelson is to be on the local early am show tomorrow am. I’m not sure what time but it will be very interesting.
My guess is that Nelson will get 300 to 500 million reasons to vote yes, soon.
Nelson has his price. We’ll see what it is or if he has any integrity at all.
It may be all we have, for the present.
Thank you for your service. Stay there and try to hold down the fort in case they come to shut it down or put political prisoners there. (near Westroads myself)
he could vote against it, and then blame it because he was consoled by Dean what he should do.
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