There's hardly any "blue" in Nebraska -- which is why Ben Nelson often has a higher ACU rating than some Republicans.
Posted on 12/17/2009 9:32:37 AM PST by Ravi
WASHINGTON — Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson — the moderate Democrat whose opposition is holding up the Senate's health care bill — says new language on abortion doesn't satisfy his concerns.
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Its starting to get really interesting. Tom Osborne you fixed Nebraska Football please run for Senate.
It sure is. Unions are balking at it and the Koz kooks are all out to kill it now.
The Healthcare Bill everyone hates.
For sure...
After reconciliation, they need only 50 votes to pass a final result (vs. 60 now to shut down a GOP filibuster). I don't think you can filibuster a reconciliation bill.
Well now that his bribe of a military base has leaked out Nelson has some ground to stand on and they can’t touch him.
Liebermann would be the ultimate rino. Not as leftist as spectre tho’
Three cheers. I know the RTL organizations were saying this morning that it was a fake compromise. Either he really cares about the right to life, or he knows his constituents won’t support a vote for abortion.
“After reconciliation, they”
utterly change the basis of the American economy and way of life on reconciliation?
Hopefully that would be the end of the dems.
Top progressives are attacking the health-reform plan moving through the Senate as “hollow,” “unsupportable” and a sellout to corporate interests.
Republicans, after plotting for months to sink the signature legislation of Obama’s first year, suddenly think that Democrats might wind up doing it for them.
Most dangerously for White House chances of assembling 60 Senate votes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean launched a third day of attacks on the emerging bill, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed that it meets none of his benchmarks for “real reform.”
“As it stands, this bill would do more harm than good to the future of America,” Dean wrote, then took to the airwaves to amplify his case.
Ed Schultz, an influential liberal radio host, declared on his “Ed Show” on MSNBC: “The base is restless. They are wandering in the wilderness, Mr. President. … They want to know, where are you? … Right now, Mr. President, your base thinks you’re nothing but a sellout — a corporate sellout, out that. … The only people who like this current bill right now, Mr. President, is the insurance industry — they get a bunch of new customers.”
Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, wrote on his Twitter feed: “Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate.” And “Kos” blogged: “You pass a s——-y program now that further bankrupts our nation, and we won’t be talking about ‘fixing’ it in a few years, but whether it should even exist.”
With polls showing erosion in both Obama’s popularity and in support for health reform, the White House mobilized to try to tamp down the rebellion from such essential allies.
Senior adviser David Axelrod called in to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to argue that Dean’s criticisms are “predicated on a bunch of erroneous conclusions.”
“To defeat a bill that will bend the curve on this inexorable rise in health-care costs is insane,” Axelrod said. “I think that would be a tragic, tragic outcome. I don’t think that you want this moment to pass. It will not come back.”
Liberals contend that the bill has been watered down so much that Congress should kill it and start over. The White House warns that health reform could be doomed for the rest of this presidency, and probably beyond, if it falters now.
The attack from the left comes at a delicate juncture when a delay of more than a couple of days could sink any remaining chance that the Senate can pass it by Christmas. Senate Democrats are circulating a possible schedule that would have them taking the final vote on Christmas Day.
Right now, Democrats are at least two votes shy of the 60 they need to pass the bill, with liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) saying he has not committed to vote for the bill in its current form.
There's hardly any "blue" in Nebraska -- which is why Ben Nelson often has a higher ACU rating than some Republicans.
True, but in this case, the ends justifies the means, which is to stop the govt. takeover of 1/6 of our economy and untimately deciding who lives or dies.
Bad mistake. The dems & media pick off the pubies one at a time and soon most are gone.
The Left/DailypsyKOSis, Screamin’ Howard, are all against passage. This is likely the kiss of death. Watching Reid’s face is the best Christmas present I’ve ever received.
Yes. Red states flushed with health and vitality. Blue states already darkly necrotic with rot.
That will upset Freeper purists / sarc
I can’t believe Saline county went for O. Must be the illegals working in the meat plant.
Ooops! Sometimes in life you gotta do what must be done.
you will only see those two stories side by side on FR.
At least FIRST on FR... CNN, PMSNBC, and the alphabets have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
Right. Look at Ted Kennedy and Bob Packwood. One’s a killer, the other MAY have made a pass or three at women while intoxicated or not. Ted got re-elected every 6 years, like clockwork, while Packwood was demonized like he was the second coming of Adolf Hitler. Not to say Packwood was a saint, he’s not, but WTF? Double standard anyone?
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