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Ben Nelson:Dems may have to abandon comprehensive health bill,go step-by-step(Cornhusker Kickback)
The Hill ^ | 2/26/10 | Michael O'Brien

Posted on 02/26/2010 2:08:40 PM PST by mdittmar

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How much for Nelsons vote?
1 posted on 02/26/2010 2:08:40 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

‘Moving on up..

to the top...

to a deeeelux apartment in the skkkkkyyyyy...

We finally got our piece of the piiiieeeeeee.


2 posted on 02/26/2010 2:10:52 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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I don't know if we can get a comprehensive bill through," Nelson said...Honestly, I just don't know."

Translation: This one's gonna cost Reid big-time and it's gonna be guaranteed non-removable in reconciliation!

3 posted on 02/26/2010 2:11:26 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Freepmail me to get on the Bourbon ping list.)
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To: mdittmar
Nelson's full of crap. With reconciliation on the table, it will allow him and Landriu and Lincoln to vote against it. This, of course, will have the effect of easing the concerns of their idiotic moderate voters in their respective states. Nelson will be able to look like a "conservative Democrat", just like the script says.
4 posted on 02/26/2010 2:15:03 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: mdittmar

If they go reconciliation, they can give Nelson a free pass to vote against the bill, even criticize it publicly. Reid and Obama will probably actually ENCOURAGE him to do so to help preserve his political standing in Nebraska. Then 50 democrats from safer seats can take the plunge and Obama can get his monument, and the average Joe Blow thinks Nelson “stood on principle”.


5 posted on 02/26/2010 2:16:20 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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"Nelson, a centrist Democrat whose vote is critical to the fate of healthcare reform in the Senate, said that while he's inclined to support a majority-vote maneuver to pass a bill..."

"Centrist" defined as a Democrat "inclined" to take extreme undemocratic steps to ram through unconstitutional legislation that people hate.

I wonder what they consider to be a "liberal" Democrat? Would you have to go all the way to Ho Chi Minh City for an example?

7 posted on 02/26/2010 2:17:55 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. " George Orwell)
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To: OldDeckHand

Correct..but it won’t work..he be toast...


8 posted on 02/26/2010 2:18:17 PM PST by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: mdittmar

Hey Ben,
Better bone up on your typing skills pal.
You can dance any way you care to pal but your resume needs to be updated cause you are gonna be out of work ya pos.


9 posted on 02/26/2010 2:19:26 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: mdittmar

And what was revealed yesterday is that the other Nelson from Florida managed his own sleazy deal. The seniors in his area will get to keep their Medicare Advantage.

Everyone else will lose theirs.


10 posted on 02/26/2010 2:20:58 PM PST by Carley
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I think Nelson will have to go for his Plan B... build a time machine to go back a few months and switch his original vote from “yes” to “no” on HC.


11 posted on 02/26/2010 2:21:31 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian (I am the Grim FReeper.)
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To: Joe Boucher
Ben Nelson's dog in this fight is the anti-trust exemption. He is bought and paid by the insurance companies, he held firm the last vote until it was changed.

Expect the same now.

12 posted on 02/26/2010 2:23:11 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: ElPatriota

I couldn’t agree with ya more El,
but you may be visited by some gub mint thugs for implying.
I have to think a lot of crap ass socialist dems should be targeted.
Ya think the secret service is busy about now?


13 posted on 02/26/2010 2:23:35 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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“Democrats may have to abandon their effort for comprehensive healthcare legislation in favor of a piecemeal approach,”

It’s called ‘PROGRESSIVE - ISM”


14 posted on 02/26/2010 2:26:18 PM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen ( If Obama is the answer, it must have been a stupid question!!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

He is still toast. This could have been stopped the first time and he didn’t do it. Who cares if those lookng for cover vote against it this time. Its the first time that everyone will remember. He made his bed.


15 posted on 02/26/2010 2:26:26 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: OldDeckHand
With reconciliation on the table, it will allow him and Landriu and Lincoln to vote against it.

He has already voted for it. The senate bill is final if they take the reconciliation route.

16 posted on 02/26/2010 2:27:25 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: Carley

Carley,
If I posted the emails I’ve sent bill Nelson in the last few weeks I’d b banned forever from F.R.
I’m surprised the secret service hasn’t visited me yet.
No threats but man have i been nasty to that pos.


17 posted on 02/26/2010 2:28:16 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Yeah, I think I got the point...(picture pulled) Although I was only speaking FIGURATIVELY :)


18 posted on 02/26/2010 2:30:11 PM PST by ElPatriota (The SILENCE of the Catholic Church (...Actually I'm hearing MORE from RCC now! ....) ** DEAFENING **)
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To: ColdWater
"The senate bill is final if they take the reconciliation route. "

The Reconciliation bill is what would be final. The vote on that bill will only require 50 votes.

19 posted on 02/26/2010 2:32:13 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: ElPatriota

It has happened to me several times too.
Ya been put in tie out yet here?
Usually for slamming Israel.
And I’m a big Israel supporter.


20 posted on 02/26/2010 2:33:29 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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