More Nebraska voters call out Cornhuckster Ben Nelson
Yesterday, I published a scathing letter from a Nebraska doctor to Ben Nelson.
Dr. Becky Hollibaugh of Friend, NE minced no words: “You have my disgust and disdain forever, you socialist-coddling coward.”
And as I noted yesterday, the backlash against Nelson’s sellout is building.
And more Nebraskans are calling the Cornhuckster out.
From Nebraskans Kelli and John Thomazin:
We are deeply disappointed at your lack of moral courage. You have misrepresented the people of Nebraska, and have jumped on the moral relativism band-wagon, where is your honor to your constituents?
You have sold us out and have allowed our goverment to pay for the killing of unborn babies for the trade off of medicaid funding. How pathetic. You have been bought.
You will not get our support nor the support of many of our friends. Your political career is over. You had a chance to stand up against a bill that does not solve our health care problems and you failed us! Where is there
talk of tort reform and competition for our health care dollars? The goverment will not be able to help run a better health care system.
We are saddened by your vote. You should strongly consider NOT voting with the Democrats for this bill just so that “something” gets passed. This is not a good solution on mulitple accounts. More work should be done to solve
the problem and not rush into something we will regret.
There are certainly problems in our system, but this bill does not solve them effeciently. I would love to listen to all the points of this bill not just the point of children being able to be covered under a private plan and
not be denied coverage.
Please speak loudly for your constituents and not for the political party. Nebraska does NOT want this bill passed.
From Nebraskan Suzanne Gage:
In brief, I want to thank you for having an articulate, consistent and principled, conservative voice. You are to be admired.
I am a wife and mother of five sons. I have been active in campaigns and the political process for nearly my entire life. We attended the emergency rally in Omaha, Nebraska this afternoon and plan on visiting Senator Nelson’s office tomorrow with a group of families who are deeply concerned with our Senator’s willingness to vote for this flawed policy. I am ashamed that he sold out to benefit our state to the detriment of the rest of the nation. This is NOT how would desire him to represent us. It is reprehensible. The bill is wrong for so many reasons. I deeply regret that our wonderful state will be negatively thought of because of his actions.
Last election he was endorsed by Nebraska Right to Life with his apparent pro-life commitment. This commitment has evaporated.
Elections matter, the impact of their results may not evidence themselves for years to come. Nelson won his first gubernatorial election with a recount by only 42 votes. He won the general election by only 4,000 votes.
Every vote matters.
GOP Nebraska Sen. Sen Mike Johanns calls Nelson’s betrayal of his pro-life principles “reprehensible:”
In a stunning choice of words, Republican Sen. Mike Johanns described the abortion compromise negotiated by his Nebraska colleague as “reprehensible.”
“If you are pro-life,” Johanns said, “you cannot vote to end debate on this bill.”
During a telephone interview moments later, Nelson said he believed it’s “not appropriate for someone to cast any aspersions on someone else’s principles and whether they’re pro-life enough.”
Toughen up, buttercup. You made your bed.
Nelson said his compromise language ensures that no public funds may be used for abortions and gives states the right to pass a law barring insurance coverage for abortions within state borders.
His language “walls off public money so it may not be used for elective abortions, either directly or indirectly,” he said.
National Right to Life rejected the compromise and warned it will consider any votes supporting the bill as “votes in favor of legislation to allow the federal government to subsidize private insurance plans that cover abortion on demand.”
The organization said the abortion language is “light years removed” from stricter anti-abortion funding legislation approved by the House.
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Update: Grassroots NE is holding a protest at Nelson’s office in Lincoln tomorrow. Details here.
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All of those senators who voted for this disgust me, not just Nelson.
House Cleaning 2010… The Dims will see real “Change”..
Huckster Shoes must be doing a thriving business these days.
Everyone should send him a penny with a note asking if this is enough to buy his vote.
Dear Nebraskans,
Now would be a very good time to call your state legislators and demand that they create a process for recalling your senators…
This entire bill is a sham. I’m sick of hearing about the crisis in health care. There is no crisis in health care. This, like global warming, is a sham. It’s Saul Alinsky down to the letter. I pray that we can vote these idiots out of office in 2010–both parties– and undo the damage that is being done to our country.
There are dark days ahead of us when politicians are not afraid of the voice of the people.
Are we surprised Nelson’s a whore? Isn’t that what the (D) after his name signifies (in fairness, I’m not always sure (R) is much different)?
Transparent, ethical.
Don’t forget about the Polosi-rats in the House that voted for this abomination too!
Don’t forget about the Pelosi-rats in the House that voted for this abomination too!
Spelling.
ACORN/SEIU/STIMULUS SLUSH FUND
Election 2010/12
Steele, Cantor, McConnell, McLame, Corny…..RINOS ALL….They should shut down ACORN now….nary a word…Issa (muslim gangster) is the investigator into ACORN, get a clue…It is a set up straight up….America is now Amerika…….
Promise of great cushy govt. jobs for dems. that lose seats..
Dingy Harry has had these mindless fools marching lockstep for so long they no longer can think for themselves. Nelson is particularly reprehensible because he isn’t simply a leftist slug . . . he’s also a coward and a liar.
Why wait for 2010? In the states that have the mechanism start recalling these weasels. If nothing else bleed away their campagn dollars to fight the recall.
I don’t know why everybody is arguing specific points of the bill. It shouldn’t be about abortion or Medicare or anything else. There is just one question that needs to be asked and answered. Is it Constitutional? No? Denied! Next bill please!
What’s with the hair? These guys are so phony that even the ones with real hair look like they’re wearing a wig.
Not that adding another $20-25B of debt onto already hopelessly bankrupt CA matters but our guv Arnold (Mr. Post-partisanship) gives Obama an A.
Poster child for what is wrong with THIS Republican party.
Fire them all.
Every single damn one of them. No exceptions.
OT, but would be something the Dems should watch:
Dr Zhivago was on TV yesterday. In it was a scene where Russian deserters from fighting the Germans (WWI) are heading home when they encounter fresh troops marching to the front. Leading the reinforcements is a pompous @$$ astride his horse who orders his troops to hold their ranks as the deserters surround them and encourage them to turn back. One of the officers shoots his pistol into the air to get the mob quieted and says, “You must fight for your country!” to which one deserter replies, “Your country!” Someone then shoots that officer, the pompous @$$ is pulled off his horse and bludgeoned and then the deserters and reinforcements march off, heading home where the Revolution takes hold.
The Dems see one country, which they control, the rest of us see a country with much greater appeal and are willing to sacrifice to realize that dream.
I am NOT calling for a revolution that follows the Russian model, but more like the one that created this great country in the first place — like another movie “The Patriot” with Mel Gibson.
Senator (Judas) Nelson has sown the wind now he will reap the whirlwind. I hope he receives a warm reception from his constituency when he returns to Nebraska, preferably with pitchforks, torches, hot tar, feathers, and a rail (some assembly required).
I feel very sorry for the good hard working people of Nebraska that understand what the whore in the Senate has done to them and the rest of the nation.
Spoken like a good NCO. Give yourself a Hooooah.
Republicans are politicians. There are good ones and bad ones.
Democrats are pure rot. Every single one of them is a parasitical collectivist whore. “Conservative Democrats” are parasitical collectivist whores who need to lie about being conservatives in order to get elected.
At the risk of getting banned:
BULLCHIP!
Tax money for abortions has been the target of Dems for decades.
You know, I find it hard to believe that of the 1.5 million abortions per year that they are attributed to rape and preserving the life of the mother.
MORE BULLCHIPS!
Let’s push to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment.
Right now the Constitution is a meaningless piece of paper and we no longer have a representative form of government. There is very little effort made to even pretend that this is not so. Right in our faces they brag that they are in charge and We the People can just lump it. Nancy Peelosie is making plans to remodel her brand new private jet….lots more gold fixtures befitting one of her stature, she is not going to give it up just because of some stupid election.
America has been corn-holed by Ben Nelson!
Now would be a good time to work in the States for nullification via the Tenth Amendment.
Let the jackasses pass anything they want and quarantine them to DC
Nelson got blood money for Nebraska. Sad…
GEEEEEE, I sure hope you learned your lesson. HINT: He is a Democrat – he is not pro life.
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HI NAIL49–#16. DR. ZHIVAGO was a remarkable movie–I saw it long ago as a university student. It said a lot about how socialism / communism destroy people’s lives and souls. And how the human spirit (kindov!) triumphs over adversity. The Russian author was a gulag prisoner for many years. Another great movie is George Orwell’s 1984.
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We may be getting ready to turn fiction into fact soon. Let’s hope it is possible to do so with ballots–not bullets. Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his congressional commie clowns have Karl Marx and Lenin / Stalin values–not American values.
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John Bibb
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From bennelson.senate.gov
I guess he lied – go figure.
Looking – not acting.
If just ONE of these politicians was recalled by their state and fired it would send a clear message to the rest. They will only listen to our demands if they know action will be taken if they do not. I am not from Nebraska so it is up to them. Either give them a reason to LISTEN or continue giving them a reason to ignore you.
Rocketman: To quote Lili Von Shtupp in another classic movie — Blazing Saddles — “Oh, it’s twue. It’s twue. It’s twue, it’s twue! “
I could go along with re-writing the 14th as well….
frankly I’ll take the first 2 above all the rest!
Is ben up for re-election in 2010? If so, has a R come out to run against him?
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i already heard one dem senator say that nebraska’s gift for life from medicaid overages is actually a one year gift, because no future congresses will be bound by it. so nelson is a fool as well as a whore. no wonder the nebraska folks want him in washington d.c.
I’m done talking. I want action, in any form. Whether that is voting out everyone, or arresting them. I.Am.Done!
As Coburn said, it’s corruption, regardless of the specifics!
And yet, back when, it was the likes of GOP in-the-tankers Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved who were all ga-ga over Arnold’s run over against Tom McLintock arguing for “electability.” Heck at this point, it’s clear Arnold is even WORSE than Gray Davis because he’s gone along with the killing off of California’s economy, giving the GOP imprimatur. At least with a Gray Davis type we could have argued that Californians are tired of Dems and it’s time to give Repubs a chance, but not so now.
How any sane person could think that a man married to an ardent Democrat with a long Democrat family history could even be remotely conservative is just beyond belief.
Two questions:
1. Has any Republican declared for a 2012 challenge to Nelson?
2. Is it too late for me to move to Nebraska just to vote against this buttclown?
Nelson, Landrieu, Lincoln, Dorgan, and Conrad are examples of a real life lesson here: politicians are Democrats first and foremost, before any and all other considerations. You’re an idiot if you think that Democrats will represent their constituents in red districts/states.
I was at a town hall meeting with Coburn a few feet away when asked about abortion being thrust forward. He said as a physician if they told him he had to perform them, he’d go to jail first. I believe he would…by the way the group of kids that posed the question immediately got up and left en-masse (about 20 of them)…hmmmm
Further proof that the “Blue Dogs” are still democrats first!
“Cornholio” comes to mind…
Just another political prostitute.
Excellent Senator Johanns.
Principles? What priniples?
So, Nebraska will be permanently exempt from shouldering Medicare costs? That means in the future it may be one of only a few states that can pay for Medicare. Therefore, everyone who wants to be assured of having Medicare needs to move to Nebraska — NOW, so you will be considered a resident when the change takes effect. I suggest you all move into Ben Nelson’s home since he sold out his state on your behalf!
Time for a remake of Shaft, starring James O’Keefe as Ben Nelson, Hannah Giles as Mary Landrieu….
My thoughts exactly.
Also like the comments about recalling our pols NOW!
Nope, term is up in 2013.
Looks like these traitors didn’t pay attention to the elections of last month in Virginia and New Jerksy.
#43 & #45
Nail49 and Gladz,
It is Medicaid not Medicare. Most states have to pay for half of Medicaid, but now, obviously not all states.
Hannibal: Medicare, Medicaid, let the people vote with their feet and move to Nebraska.
BTW, thanks for keeping it straight, hard as that is to do with phantom bills floating around the Capitol!
Would that be before 2014 when the physical end of this crap takes place and not just the money?
You know when the coverage is reduced by $450billion. Only the lord knows how many doc’s will be left to practice and fight over the remaining scarps the government hands out.
Euthanasia working in America, never thought I’d see such evil in this once greatest country in history of mankind.
BASTARDS! TRAITOROUS BASTARDS!
It’s a pretty sad testiment when the only way to get ANYTHING done in Washington is to just bribe someone for their vote, be it the Dems or Repubs. Nelson, Landreau, et. al. are no different. Being the superficial political whores that they are they bend over and sell their principles for people who will just sell them down the river anyway.
No one owns me. However, the Dems own these fraudulent “moderates” like Nelson, lock, stock, and barrel. Nelson just doesn’t know it. A politician through and through.
This is only the beginning of the end. We’re a quasi/semi socialist state now. Obummer and his thugs will just complete the work that progressives like FDR and LBJ started. And it doesn’t matter to MANY Americans because they think they’re entitled to freebies like the European masses.
China needs to cut US off SOON!!! There is no way we can support this system. We owe 106 trillian in entitlements for things like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Welcome to third world status, America, because we’re there now.
And don’t think that having a college degree or advanced education can save you.
I just really don’t get it. These Dems are in Full Self-Destruct Mode. I don’t get it. UNLESS, Obama’s got dirt on ALL of ‘em.
After kicking these senatorial weasels out of office, we have to be careful that they don’t come in the back door as lobbyists. This can be done by threatening any lobbying outfit with loss of contracts if they pull any stunts like bringing one of these ex-senators in with a “comrade” who isn’t tainted by having been a senator or representative.
Also, if one of these ex-senators shows up at a restaurant near you, tell the proprietor that you are leaving because he is serving the weasel who tried to kill America. And that personal boycott should extend to any business in Nebraska who serves Nelson. He needs to be thoroughly disgraced and followed to prevent him doing further damage.
Nelson will backtrack and vote against the bill when it won’t matter much (only 51 votes needed). This won’t save him. His time to be principled was last night. Damn him, Damn the Dems, Dam all the Socialists!
ya know, as i think about it, we are to blame, in a way. i mean, think about high school: remember all the ones who used to run for student council and were so into being important and recognized? we knew they were bad news then, but then we all grew up and let them run for office while we pursued “life.”
for me, honestly, serving in public office would be a sacrifice that i can hardly overstate. i simply can’t stand that whole atmosphere and so i’ve been content to let others do the heavy lifting and haven’t run for office myself or even seriously thought of it. i’ve been too busy chasing the american dream to put in my time.
just like some sacrifice to go into the mission field to spread the good news, we’re going to have to start a cultural change among conservatives that encourages more “every day Joes” to run for office. we can’t afford to let “Biff for School President” run our country anymore (and that goes for both parties!).
Yup, just follow the money trail. Actually, its nicer than a trail, more like a highway made of money. I tried a new approach today. I sent both my jackass senators a note demanding to know why they weren’t the 59th and 60th votes. Harry Reid was buying votes and they were nowhere to be found. Blago was right, “this thing is worth a lot of money” and my senators were too stupid to muscle up to the trough.
There should be 58 senators out there, scratching their butts and saying “why didn’t I hold out for the money”. Landrieu and Nelson played Harry like a cheap fiddle.
Thomas Jefferson said it best: “When people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is freedom.”
I thought Klinger dyed his hair and went to Washington.
…as for recalls, I would like to see a national group organize this. I would contribute time, effort and money once a month until November 2010.
With the number of radical, Marxist libs in their Statehouse, it matters not who occupies their Governors mansion. Clean that up, and things MIGHT start to turn around.
Not defending Arnold, just stating the truth.
“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brutha.”
I bet many of these leftists are well aware of what Dead Fish Emanuel and other thugs they have tolerated over the years are capable of.
From the Nebraska Right to Life:
“Nebraska Right to Life and pro-life Nebraskans have been betrayed by Senator Ben Nelson’s agreement with Democratic leadership to become their 60th vote for cloture on the Senate healthcare bill”
Later they say the following, as though it implicates Nelson for treachery more than it implicates NRL for stupidity:
“NRL Political Action Committee gave Senator Nelson a sole endorsement in his re-election race in 2006″
Don’t play with an adder, and whine that it “betrayed” you when it sheaths its hot fangs into your flesh!
Let’s set the scene. The Dems have 59 votes, and Nelson has to decide whether he will vote his Democrat impulses, and socialize 1/6 of the American economy, or whether he’ll vote to oppose abortion, thereby violating perhaps the most sancrosanct plank [slavish devotion to the abortion industry] of the Democratic Party. Hmmmm, must have been a REAL TOUGH choice for Nelson, ya think?
God gave to men their portion of intelligence and reasoning faculties. The people at the NRL have failed to use their God-given talents. At some point stupidity must be reckoned immoral; I think the NRL easily crossed that line in endorsing Nelson.
It’s the same thing in Arkansas. Voters insist on voting Democrat (largly because their daddys’ did, plus they buy into the whole farm aid thing) expecting to get different results, but only to get shucked an cornholed.
I am on a Blue Cross Advantage Plan. How come my state doesn’t get the same thing that Nebraska and Florida received. My health insurance will rise even more now that we have to pay for those people in these BRIBED states who are on an Advantage plan. All of the states that did not receive these Nelson’s Bribes will be paying for those two BRIBED STATES. How can this be legal???
Shame Shame.