Cornhuckster Sen. Ben Nelson: We shoulda waited on Demcare
Now he tells us?
Sen. Ben Nelson said Tuesday it was a mistake for the Obama Administration to take on massive health care reforms in 2009, and suggested efforts would have been better spent addressing the economy.
Nelson, who provided the crucial 60th vote to advance the bill toward Senate passage on Dec. 19, has been active ever since trying to explain his actions to Nebraskans. Ads have aired on television and Nelson is making the rounds with the state’s media.
He requested Tuesday’s interview with the Tribune.
“I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy,” he said.
Via the Fremont Tribune.
Check out Nelson’s latest spin on his Cornhusker Kickback. See, it’s all a misunderstanding. His special deal for Nebraska is really a special deal for everyone! There just wasn’t enough time to explain the whole “placeholder” thing in the treacherous rush to ram the thing down our throats, you see:
Nelson said the “Cornhusker Kickback” — $100 million that was included in the Senate bill to help Nebraska cover Medicaid expenses — was not intended to be a special perk for Nebraska, but rather a vehicle by which individual states could choose to opt out of federal funds for Medicaid in the future.
“Several of us have been concerned about the funding of Medicaid because it’s an unfunded mandate from the federal government. The federal government pays a portion of it and the state pays the rest,” he said.
“Under this program,” he continued, “there would be a whole new group of individuals who would qualify for Medicaid coverage. Until 2017 the federal government would pay 100 percent of that.”
The state would then start picking up some of the costs in 2017.
“The Congressional Budget Office could not, in the time frame we had, figure out what states would opt in and what states would opt out, and couldn’t put a number to it,” Nelson said. “So what they did is just put $100 million on Nebraska in a line item in there. It’s really nothing more than a place holder for us to deal with the issue in conference, which I’ve already started doing.
“There was never a time when I fought to get something only for Nebraska; not then and not now,” he added.
He’ll be in CYA mode for the next two years. Expect more Joker posters!
Meanwhile, state attorneys general aren’t buying the spin:
Two top state prosecutors are asking attorneys general across the country to let Washington know if they oppose the health care reform bill they say includes a political deal for Nebraska.
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and Oklahoma top prosecutor Drew Edmondson asked their colleagues Wednesday to call on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to remove the provision.
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What a nightmare Odumbo is for America. He and Pelosi and the rest of the Demonrats.
But, Americans can only blame themselves for being stupid enough to vote them into power.
What were some of you people smoking when you went to vote? Crack? Explain yourselves!
Instead of buying votes for Ben Nelson, the bribe is costing him votes. That calls for a change in plans. They will now remove the Nebraska bribe in conference and pretend it was never really there. (If you’re going to lie, you might as well make it a big lie.)
That Hopenchange stuff sure does cause a helluva hangover, huh?
What a weenie…
1. Tonya Harding
2. Chris Brown
3. Ben Nelson
Story morphing.
If we survive theses yahoos it may be generations before progressives regain power.
Somebody please put this guy out of his misery. It’s embarrassing.
not really OT.
All open seat races, Diims and Republicans both need to be looked at from the aspect of the various State level Secretarys of State.
These offices have been targeted for manipulation by George Soro’s minions and can have great effect on election day.
On January 7th, 2010 at 2:04 am, Hangfire said:
1. Tonya Harding
2. Chris Brown
3. Ben Nelson
Wow, it seems a little harsh to include Ms. Harding in with Ben! Seems she’d have to be a whole lot worse for that!
DCM
Nelson, you idiot . . . you could have engaged your brain, voted no and stopped this disgusting aberration. Instead, you followed along in lock step with the rest of those mindless liberal sheep and set the nation on the road to destruction.
“placeholder” ? Is Bozo writing his resume to be a waiter? He did a fine job of carrying Dingy Harry’s water so I guess he is ready to move up to a useful job.
What a coward. He didn’t have the guts to stand up to his party bosses, and now he lacks the guts to stand by his vote.
History will remember Ben Nelson’s name with disdain.
We can start reshaping the senate this month, support MA senate candidate Scott Brown.
They didn’t have to be smoking anything.
The trouble is that most kids coming out of school for the past 30 years (or more) see no benefit to capitalism over socialism. The “regressives” have been successful in dumbing down society.
Nullification NOW!
I have a feeling that all the Dims that voted for this illegal bill will be switching to CYA mode in the next 2 years. These people only care about their power, and not about the job they’re sworn to do to run our country. They’ll lie at all costs to keep that power. Of course, most of them could just resign/retire and get appointed to special positions w/in the administration, thus circumventing voters alltogether to keep their power just like Dodd did.
What a low-life weasel.
If you want to make “amends” Ben, Cowboy up and don’t vote for cloture.
I think it was “come to Jesus” Christmas for a lot of these creatins. The reality of what they have stepped in by being lured into Harry’s office and the Oval office and fed “bolshoi” has finally penetrated their pompous egos.
Something stinks in this house. Honey, please throw out the garbage.
Ahh, dead people are unable to speak, but they can vote.
What Nelson The Slow still fails to comprehend isn’t that all should receive his perk but that no one should be subjected to this atrocity.
“My vote on the health care issue? Well, it was made under duress but I ensured my fellow Cornhuskers they would get something out of it…I did it for the senior citizens and the children…It was supposed to stop the meaningless slaughter of puppies and kittens…I was told my vote would slow global warming…I did it to keep America safe from Al Queda…yeah,yeah…that’s the ticket!”
Who cares about his latter-day conversion? What matters is that now the Dummycr*ps need only 51 votes, not 60. Nelson’s remorse is as phony as is the man. He’s simply looking for cover for the election – which, if voters have their brains in operating condition, he will, by an embarrassingly huge margin, LOSE.
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and Oklahoma top prosecutor Drew Edmondson asked their colleagues Wednesday to call on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to remove the provision.
A bribe take-back. I know South Florida is freezing over but I am sure hell is not.
I hope someone challenges the constitutionality of forced buying of health insurance as well.
That’s not a steaming pile of cow flop. It’s a placeholder for nutrient rich fertilizer that will promote growth and make roses bloom.
“I think it was a mistake to take the Titanic through that iceberg field at full throttle,” Captain Edward Smith said.
“I think it was a mistake to attack those Indians,” General George Custer said.
At 5:36 am, Uplander said:
Interesting. Soros has a finger in so many pies, I can’t keep track of them all. Do you have more information about him re: state-level Secretaries of State?
I agree. Soon we will be forced to buy carbon credits as well.
Sadly, the poorest will be hit hardest by the lack of ability to purchase health insurance. They will be taxed for the lack thereof. Add to that, the small places of business that are just holding on will be forced out of business because they will not be able to insure their employees. More (low income) jobs lost – again affecting the poor.
All that being said, the poorer peoples voted for?
A public caning may be in order for Nelson and his cohorts in crime. Call that Singapore martial arts fighter and tell him to bring plenty of bamboo. We’ll pay for overtime.
For cryin out loud. This surprises who?
Exactly. That has always been a pillar of the Marxist takeover strategy. It’s cool to be a gulag slave. We need education reform not healthcare reform. Root out the indoctrinators and eliminate the DOE.
If that does not scare the hell out of everybody – nothing will. Old Ben sold his vote for a future debate on the debt cap as well (and how did that work out?).
I hope when history is written, Old Ben is cast as 4th in line with the devil. What he did was just evil. He knew his vote would pave the way for a simple majority. He is disgusting.
Gag me with a spoon! Does he really believe that this explanation is going to be believed! My how Washington changes those from flyover country. So sad…
This idiot has been smoking cornhusks. He provided the 60th vote to move this turd down the sewer line. If he thought it should wait he should have done everything possible to slow it down and do it in the sunlight. Oh–I forgot–he’s a Politician.
I don’t believe a word he says.
He has zero credibility. He’s a spineless worm. He should do Nebraska a favor and fall on his sword.
Don’t you mean put this guy out of our misery?
Let’s see, is that 57 – or 58 secretaries of state? How many of those are demonites?
What???
What???
What???
Of course not…or, What???
Reading Nelson’s meaningless – meaningless – explanation is as painful as trying to read zzz-zzz-zzz’s posts.
Jesus God Almighty, my hair hurts, as Imus has said in the past.
What he means is, they should have waited until he was safely re-elected, and gotten some other senators in trouble.
In PA Dutch Country, I once heard a saying:
The barn door he locks,
when the horse is all (gone)
Fits this horse’s a– to a tee!
A “medical wonder” no brains, no guts and no backbone. Typical Senator.
“You can lead a whore Congress to but you cannot make Ben think…”
Is Ben a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath or all three? We all know he is a self-serving, political whore who sold out the American people for his own benefit. Except this time it may not have benefited him.
THEY ALL NEED TO GO!
“You can lead a whore to Congress but you cannot make Ben think…”
Is Ben a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath or all three? We all know he is a self-serving, political whore who sold out the American people for his own benefit. Except this time it may not have benefited him.
THEY ALL NEED TO GO!
Uplander, I share same concern as LittleMa.
Nelson mess and Louisiana purchase are exposed. We need to peel back the onion – give it top billing soon/now. Robin Carnahan is our SofS and has influenced timing of issues coming to a statewide vote. She’s now running for ‘the’ Senate.
I was watching a movie the other night starring Luke Wilson. I’m not sure when it was made, or the name of it, but he looked pretty young so I’m guessing it was a couple of years ago.
Anyway, the premise was that this lazy soldier was to be frozen in suspended animation for a while. As it turned out, he was there for much longer than the one year anticipated, and when he woke up, the population had been dumbed down so much that he was some kind of a genius.
Pretty stupid movie (I lasted about 45 minutes), but the parallels to today’s voting public was a bit unnerving. And the scenes covering the government was like watching FNC.
My slogan for the 2010 election . . .RE-ELECT NO ONE 2010.
Too many people agree that they all need to go “except my congress man is doing a pretty good job”, or “we don’t want to lose the seniority”.
Re-elect No One.
Walterc,
I have thought my congressman should have been dumped for nearly 10 years. This includes the current left-wing Democrat nut-job and the RINO who preceded him.
THEY ALL NEED TO GO, AND PREFERABLY IN LEG IRONS!
Recently I’ve seen this slogan on a couple of bumper stickers.
this crap all stems from allowing politicians to police themselves. they set up territories for themselves which are forever one party, they force the left wing judiciary to make laws on any controversial issue, and then ask that same judiciary to force taxation to accomplish that “edict”. desegregation and bussing have destroyed our public schools, abortion has been a polarizing issue for 40 years, emminent domain and the environmental regulations are all examples of having cowards in congress protecting no one except themselves by gerrymandering territories. the party system is fatally flawed because the lunatics have figured how to scam the system.
Fool. ALL the money comes from taxpayers in the end. Or does he expect us to believe the federal government is funded by aliens from another planet?
That is because fools like you are trying to confuse them with misinformation, like the one above. The problem for you is that people are not buying these lies anymore, even though you somehow manage to believe them.
Sheesh! Even Ned Beatty never squealed like that!
Good one!
Reminds me of what my late father used to say, “There’s no pipe hanging down from the sky out of which money pours.”
Well, joker ben, if we should have waited then why not vote no? You are no different than obama when Joe Wilson yelled “You lie”.
Actually, I am starting to think that Reid and Pelosi ARE aliens and I don’t mean from south of the border…
This Do Not Re Elect Anybody is looking better all the time. I can think of a few in the House and Senate we need-unfortunately none from Arizona. Michele Bachmann (MN-6) seems like a winner.
It is up to the people of Nebraska to deal with Shuck n’ Jive Nelson. They could run him out of town on a rail-tarred and feathered.
Even some Brits are talking Do Not Re Elect Anybody
If this healthcare debacle makes it into law, then there will be practical issues of how to enforce the requirement for individuals to purchase insurance. I can see people checking the “yes” box on some IRS form and then copying a bogus medical insurance card as proof. If the IRS happens to audit you, then you buy insurance for one year. On the other hand. if enough people just check the “no” box, the IRS would be overwhelmed trying to enforce the law as any audit would immediately trigger a lawsuit. There is no reason for any citizen to simply lie down in face of government corruption.
Sooo aaahh, anyone up for a revolt??
GladzKravtz, I found the SoS article:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04soros-eyes-secretaries/1
It’s a link on http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
What I read on “discoverthenetworks” is scary stuff!
At this point, it would properly be called a “counter revolution” as the Marxists and their “useful idiots” have already successfully seized the reins of government.
Gallop reports liberals make up only 21% of the population now with conservatives being the largest ideological group. When conservatives regain power in this country, let’s ship all liberals to France. It’ll be cheaper in the long run.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hijack. I’ll be quiet now.
That’s Idiocracy, a film that’s starting to look more and more like reality with each passing day.
If we’re talking movies, a Harrison Ford line from the remake of Sabrina seems appropriate;
“Down at the office, they call me “Bo Jangles”.
Re-elect no one? Now how would that work out in the real world? Since liberals aren’t on board the liberal congress creatures still get their votes. Conservatives, on the other hand, are supposed to withhold support from their conservative incumbants. So we end up with more democrats, more liberals and lose Michelle Bachmann and other like-minded legislators. This “Re-elect no one” sceme was probably started by paid shills from the White House or Soros. Well, I’m not playing. My congressman, Bob Goodlatte, has a 100% conservative record and I intend to reward him for it. I will not be manipulated into some scheme to damage conservative office holders while liberals get a free ride.
This one maybe be the theme song for 2010!
Ray Stevens is an American hero.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo
This guy is a US Senator? Must be from Nebraska.
Anyone with any political knowhow at all knows that if you make a real stinker of a mistake, but the issue is complicated at all, then you act like it wasn’t a mistake, and you go on the attack.
In other words, Nelson should be claiming credit for looking out for the interests of Nebraskans. He should be on the attack about all of the money the federal government spends on California and Texas and New York and on and on and on.
He should be indignant and outraged at the ‘big state media’ trying to ‘attack Nebraska and Nebraskans’ while ‘covering up’ all of the federal money spent on ‘those big, greedy, wasteful states on the coasts.’
The art of politics is all about misdirection. This guy’s a dunce.
That’s the good news. Not only will it be challenged, but it has a better than even chance of being struck down.
Great article.
Let us pray….