Posted on 07/30/2010 5:53:44 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska said he will vote against confirming Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first in his party to announce opposition.
Also today, Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire said he will vote for President Barack Obama’s nominee, the fifth Republican to do so.
Nelson said he had heard “concerns” from people in Nebraska about Kagan.
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The morons in Nebraska will buy it hook, line and sinker.
The morons in Nebraska may well buy it hook, line, and sinker. But they’re mostly in Omaha, and the rest of the state can(hopefully) out-vote them.
Still stinging from the beating he got over the Cornhusker Kickback. Whassamatta, Ben,...facing an uphill battle in the polls? She’ll be confirmed, and you get cover from the voters. Punk.
Paired votes
Nelson gets reelected and Gregg gets something better than Secretary of Commerce.
It’s a win-win!
Until the last (crucial) minute. He is as Democrat and will ultimately vote the party line.
Yeppers, Hit another nail directly on the head!
It's a carefully choreographed passion play designed to dupe the sucker taxpayers and citizen masses!
This is so disgusting. What appears to be happening is that various Senators are “trading votes” depending on who is in a safe district. BASTARDS!
It is absolutely sickening that ANY republican would vote to confirm this ignorant witch. True conservatives need to leave the republitraitor party.
He’s up for re-election in 2012 with Obama and wants as much separation as he can possibly get.
The problem isn’t with Republicans, the problem is with politicians like Judd Gregg.
Gregg is one of those “moderate” libertarian-type Republicans who are soft (and I’m being charitable) on social issues. He voted against the Marriage Amendment, and voted for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (embryonic being the key point here). He also voted for the immigration reform bill in 2007, which is in line with the doctrinaire libertarian belief that “free people can sell their labour wherever they want.”
It’s these socially-liberal libertarian types that are killing us. They’re soft on those issues, and they eventually start to go soft on the rest, since they have no firm, foundational guiding moral principles.
“The morons in Nebraska will buy it hook, line and sinker”
Whoa there sport.....Benny screwed the pooch on health care this is being seen for what it is PANDERING and it won’t work..he’s toast...when was the last time your senator was booed out of a pizza joint like benny was?
Fixed the post.....Make no mistake the Cornhusker Kicker is toast in 12. The people in Nebraska that are producers and not parasites will win this round. I fear however that the parasite population is growing in my state and are getting Federal protection.
The RINOs went out on a limb and Nelson just cut it off.
I think that Nelson planned to oppose Kagan all along because of his falling approval ratings back home, but that Harry Reid told him to wait until enough RINO’s had defected so that it would make no difference.
In spite of that, this is a postive development. Maybe a few more DemocRATS, like Blanche Lincoln, Mark Begich, and Jim Webb, will vote against her. If we could hold her below 60 votes, it would be a minor victory.
I hope you're right, and I'm wrong. BUT, Democrats were saying the exact same thing about Joe Lieberman. How did that work out?
I'm afraid the only thing that's going to beat Nelson is another democrat in the Dem primary, but these long-term "moderates" NEVER seem to lose in the general elections.
Yeah, you’re probably right there.
My brother-in-law’s wife teaches in North Omaha and hates it.
Hearing Reid and others saying that Nelson wouldn’t be serving Nebraskans if he didn’t get in the trough and grovel around for special favors made me sick to my stomach. You’da thought Nelson would know hard-working Nebraskans well enough to know that we’d die a thousand deaths before we’d expect to be given a HANDICAP so we could cheat our way to victory.
What kind of jerks does he think we are anyway?
Jerks like some of the people in North Omaha, that’s what kind. Although I’ve got to say I think a lot of them have lived in the trough so long they just don’t even realize there’s another existence even possible. And that’s the way the dems want them to stay.
That's an unfair and inaccurate characterization that attempts to put the (l)ibertarian wing of the GOP in a bad light.
Gregg is NOT a fiscal, national defense or social conservative...no matter what he says.
There are many dims in the South more conservative than this guy in every category.
Have an ax to grind with 50% of the GOP? Want us to go away so you can have the party to yourself?
You don’t know how the people of Nebraska reacted to him getting booed out though. A lot of us glad somebody had the guts to do it.
Ben Nelson said he would “hold that line” and then he turned tail and ran. Nebraskans have long memories. Ndomikung Suh could easily beat Ben Nelson for US Senate in 2012. We like somebody who tackles the opponent. Somebody who tackles his own team.... not so much.
I disagree, and if the libertarian wing of the GOP is in a bad light, it's because it's put itself there by basically trying to cut off one of the three legs of successful movement conservatism, all because they personally don't like "Bible thumpers."
And also, open borders IS a libertarian position - that's what genuine libertarians believe, that free people ought to be able to sell their labour wherever they can get the highest price for it. Whether "libertarian Republicans" (who tend not to be *as* rigidly doctrinaire on many of the more esoteric libertarian ideas, unlike the LP proper) believe this way...some do, some don't. Enough do to be a problem, however.
Gregg is NOT a fiscal, national defense or social conservative...no matter what he says.
Actually, he did manage to balance New Hampshire's budget while he was governour, and he has traditionally been an arch-opponent of government debt. He's also rated extremely highly by the Cato Institute for his voting record on economic and trade issues.
You ARE right about him not being a social conservative - which is the problem with him.
There are many dims in the South more conservative than this guy in every category.
True....and that's a testament to the value of the vaunted "libertarian wing of the GOP."
Have an ax to grind with 50% of the GOP? Want us to go away so you can have the party to yourself?
50%? LOL, I think you're overestimating yourselves quite a bit.
At any rate, no, I don't want you to go away. What I DO want is for libertarian Republicans to get over their little pissy party that they throw whenever a social conservative idea threatens to rear its head within the GOP. There are a lot more SoCons in the GOP than there are LibGOPers - learn to deal with it like you did back during the Reagan Years, and we'll all be able to work together to win. Compare everybody who opposes gay marriage and abortion with Mike Huckabee and tell them that they're RINO commies, and we'll continue to have the problems were having internally.
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