December 20, 2009 12:15 PM
Shame on Ben Nelson for selling out at our expense!
From American Thinker:I say vote them all out next year!
December 19, 2009The High Price of Ben Nelson's Low Vote
Democrat Ben "Dover" Nelson, who had previously threatened to join a GOP filibuster of the Senate Health Care Bill, proved today that everything has a price - including a man's values. The Nebraska Senator just accepted what I'll generously describe as an enormous "monetary incentive" to do a complete 180 on his long-time position on abortion funding and thereby gave this awful legislation life with his 60th all-Democrat vote.Earlier this month, Nelson insisted that he would not support a bill without stronger anti-abortion language:"I've said at the end of the day if it doesn't have Stupak [strong protection against federally-funded abortions] language on abortion in it I won't vote to move it off the floor."
But Majority Leader Harry Reid's "Manager's Amendment," which supposedly swung Nelson's vote, includes no such language. Rather than explicitly prohibiting use of Federal funds for abortion, as in Stupak, Nelson signed on to the idea of instead allowing states to "opt-out" of abortion coverage in their own public exchanges.
Why the change of heart?
It appears that the current health care bill's plan to insure about 30 million uninsured Americans includes a provision to move a good portion of them onto the Medicaid rolls. Needless to say, that's quite the unfunded mandate to force upon the budgets of our already cash-strapped states.But there's one state that today was guaranteed immunity from such a budget-annihilating burden -- Nebraska. While 49 other states will be forced to scramble and cut and tax and reappropriate in order to meet the new mandates, Nelson's home state won't.That's because Nelson sold his vote for Reid's assurance that the feds will pay 100% of any new Nebraska Medicaid costs -- forever.And that leaves non-Nebraskan taxpayers picking up the tab - forever.This sordid sell-out certainly represents a new low in opprobrious political payoffs.Scream loudly about this one.
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Comments
We are about to head downtown to attend a "rally" to protest Ben Nelson and his "sell out". I can`t even refer to him as Senator since he has a deaf ear to the voice of the people. Governor Huckabee is going to be at the rally along with a number of representatives from the house and one Senator who called our home a few minutes ago. People in Nebraska are very upset at Mr. Nelson`s shift. We are not giving in. We will keep on keeping on til the people are heard and representated. I am taking our copy of the Constitution with us.
Posted by: Helene | December 20, 2009 2:32 PM
Helene, Just read your post previously to this post of mine. Apparently you are a Nebraska citizen. Thanks for the effort you and others are making in protesting the sell out by Democrat Senator Ben Nelson.
On the national level, I am reminded of evil King Herod the Great who went on an anti-life, anti-Christ crusade in killing all the infants of Bethlehem in an insane effort to consolidate his power. Senator Ben Nelson, I am sure, had a lot of pressure exerted against him. But his actions are still a sell out. The Democrat party has become so radical, corrupt and decadent that I think it is unredeemable.
Posted by: Watchtower | December 20, 2009 5:09 PM
Time for house cleaning indeed. Repulsive behavior.
Posted by: A Mac and a Mug O' Joe | December 20, 2009 6:14 PM
