Nebraska Republicans set up the official “Give Ben the Boot” website after the senator announced he would vote with the other 59 democrats in support of Obamacare today.
67% of Nebraskans oppose Obamacare.
The announcement today officially ended Nelson’s career in Nebraska, at least according to this latest poll, via Leavenworth Blog:
“If Senator Ben Nelson votes in favor of this plan, would that make you more likely or less likely to support Senator Nelson when he runs for re-election?”
More likely: 26%
Less Likely: 61%
December 19th, 2009 | 10:00 pm | #1
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December 19th, 2009 | 10:02 pm | #2
I think this will STILL be an issue for the democrats in 2012 and BEYOND!
December 19th, 2009 | 10:05 pm | #3
Memories won’t be as short as they once were.
If I weren’t running against Mikulski, I’d give ol’ Ben here a run for his money.
December 19th, 2009 | 10:09 pm | #4
Thanks. I’ve already emailed this link to my contact list here in Nebraska. I have a feeling however, that Nelson will likely announce his retirement rather than go down in flames. Either way this seat will be back in Republican hands come the next time its up. Look for Gov Heineman to step up and run for it.
December 19th, 2009 | 10:12 pm | #5
Since all the scum care about is getting re-elected, why are they acting like they don’t care about it anymore. Do they know something we do not?
December 19th, 2009 | 10:22 pm | #6
This libtard schlemming (mutant cross between a sheeple and a lemming) probaly thinks that since he isn’t up for re-election until, I think 2012, he can get away with this sellout. I do hope Nebraskans have a long memory.
December 19th, 2009 | 10:39 pm | #7
Good question, Toaster 802. It does make you wonder what the motivation is. May we find out before it’s too late.
December 19th, 2009 | 10:39 pm | #8
He probably has a cushy federal job promised to him — maybe czar of abortions.
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December 19th, 2009 | 11:23 pm | #9
Heh. His vote for has probably secured a position for him in the upcoming socialist regime.
December 19th, 2009 | 11:36 pm | #10
The people of Nebraska should brace themselves for the increasing number of new residents who will flock there for free medicaid benefits. Watch for the state welfare applicants to increase too.
December 19th, 2009 | 11:39 pm | #11
“Since all the scum care about is getting re-elected, why are they acting like they don’t care about it anymore. Do they know something we do not?”….
When they lose their job it ain’t like when you or I lose our job…. unless you or I get a gig lobbying our old friends for our new friends that pay us 7 figures cause we got such nice friends…. And when you fall on the sword for you pals in government they make it a point to give you the extra special super duper thanks a lot we will never forget what you did for us treatment for life and your kids and their kids too.
Once ya in the club ya in the club…..
and ya on the friends and family plan now…. no need to worry about anything evah…..
roflmao
December 19th, 2009 | 11:41 pm | #12
RINO HUTCHINSON!!!!
http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/12/18/hutchison-implicitly-calls-fellow-republicans-anti-troops/
Hutchinson refused to support her fellow Republicans in an important cloture vote on Health Care. Senator Hutchison was joined only by the entire Democrat caucus, and – hold on – you’ll NEVER guess… Senators Snowe and Collins.
December 19th, 2009 | 11:50 pm | #13
Glad to hear it. We need good Conservative Republicans booting ALL of these liberal Democrats and RINO’s out.
December 20th, 2009 | 12:23 am | #14
We have one party using taxpayer money to buy votes from reluctant legislators. We have a bill that won’t even be revealed until it’s voted on. We have one of the most massive bills in history being passed against the clear will of the public and by strict party-line vote.
This will be a shameful day for the Republic.
December 20th, 2009 | 12:25 am | #15
Ben Nelson, who talked so much about principles, was simply bought off by a promise of extra funds directed to his state from the rest of American taxpayers.
December 20th, 2009 | 12:52 am | #16
I’ve already donated…join me! In fact, I got so much into the spirit, I donated a little to Marco Rubio as well.
December 20th, 2009 | 1:09 am | #17
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December 20th, 2009 | 1:21 am | #18
ill donate to who ever runs against this traitor and all rhinos
December 20th, 2009 | 2:04 am | #19
I’m sorry, but this doesn’t make any sense. Why would Nebraskans give Nelson the boot for bringing home the bacon?
I live in the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota, and up here, we had a representative who consistently brought home the bacon. We not only continually reelected Rep. Marty Sabo, we built a lavish bridge and named it in his honor.
What you do not understand is that all of these deals that Nelson made for his state were done with FREE MONEY that would have gone somewhere else, had this great man, Bill Nelson, not held out for.
Senator Nelson has done Nebraska proud. He’s bringing home the bacon and will cruise easily to repeated reelection from a grateful public that has it’s pockets open to all the bacon that’s coming home.
December 20th, 2009 | 5:29 am | #20
We all know what the (rush, rush) “stimulus” funds are for. It’s simply a slush fund stolen from the taxpayer, the small business owner, the middle class to “stimulate”, to bribe and prop up wavering Democrats, RINOs and Friends of the Islamo-Marxist Regime (SEIU, ACORN, Code Pink, ANSWER, etc.) and as a regime-friendly stash to buy out ignorant, easily convinced voters in weak areas like inner cities (who will probably be knocked off by the public health theft scheme).
We are about to get Son of Stimulus for more of the same. We are being robbed blind. They know we will be busy rooting out the traitors while they are very hard at work to overturn and decimate our Constitution.
We have very precarious and dangerous times ahead. The regime knows that Conservatives can be easily distracted by minutiae, small stuff. We have to band together as a force and put aside the small differences. They are out to divide and conquer. We must create a unite force under the banner of our Constitution.
We should build mirror forces to counter the likes of the ACLU and the SEIU. We must not allow the treasonous Left to overthrow this nation.
December 20th, 2009 | 6:18 am | #21
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December 20th, 2009 | 6:52 am | #22
Toaster: The party of corruption has Acorn and Seiu to help in the upcoming elections.
December 20th, 2009 | 7:05 am | #23
Scott, Let me know where we can get some of that “free” money. All Americans looking for “free”money come to Nebraska and enroll in their Medicaid program funded by “free” money.
December 20th, 2009 | 7:14 am | #24
Scott Jerome: There is no such thing as “free money”. It comes from somewhere. What you mean is “other people’s money”, and the problem with the thinking that you evidently endorse is that eventually “other people” get tired of being robbed by charlatans. What Nelson did was sell out for the modern day equivalent of thirty pieces of silver. It won’t last long, and the people of Nebraska may soon come to regret it. As for Nelson, I’m certain that aside from what he is admitting that he “got” in return for his vote, he also got a promise of lifetime security in some Soros funded operation where he will never have to face the public again. He was elected to represent the people of Nebraska in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution, and he has, to his eternal shame, sold out. It cheapens the Senate to the point where principles are all for sale. If you think that that is somehow admirable, I feel sorry for you, and if your shallow thinking is widespread, I weep for this country.
December 20th, 2009 | 7:30 am | #25
As Senator Coburn stated..we are facing a “Crisis in Confidence” in our government. They are ignoring polls and the will of the people because they have the votes to do what they are being bribed to do.
The republic has endured over time because adherance to the consitiution and the will of the people and as with the British rule, when people no longer feel the government is acting in their best interest steps will be taken to remove it.
December 20th, 2009 | 7:32 am | #26
With the way this government is writing checks, I don’t think the country could afford to support the deal Nelson got and the deal will be rescinded in the future. Remember, with this President, ALL promises have an expiration date. This health care bill is all about power not health care. It’s probably going to take a lot of people dying before this bill will get undone in the future. The next big business in this country will be overseas vacation hospitals like the Europeans already flee to in Thailand and India. 5 Star hospital/resorts. Costa Rica would be a nice place to set up one for Americans. I bet a lot of US Doctors would go and do that in a heart beat.
December 20th, 2009 | 7:36 am | #27
“He’s bringing home the bacon and will cruise easily to repeated reelection from a grateful public….” heard the same argument made for chris dodd. he’s bringing home the bacon – never mind all the little incidentals. of all the things that nelson qualifies himself as – pro-life isn’t among them. what a crass society we’ve become. now how many pieces of silver is it….
December 20th, 2009 | 7:45 am | #28
Simple… The Dems will just pour an extra billion or so of “free” taxpayer money (already skimmed off the top of the Stimulus Bill otherwise known as the “Democrat Re-Election Fund of 2010 and Beyond”) into local Acorn groups throughout Nebraska who, from now until when Ben is up for re-election in 2012, will have sufficient slush funds to pay local criminal types, leftist college students, unemployed blacks, and other operatives, $25/hr each to go forth and actively register to vote the names of dead people listed on every gravestone in every graveyard in the entire State.
And as these very same groups did before the last election in November pretty much throughout America, their operatives will, at the very last minute, dump boxes and boxes of “filled-in” voter registration cards on the doorsteps of each local Registrar’s Office so that none of those names can be verified in time before the polling booths open up. (Once they win the election, no charges are brought).
Make no mistake about it… These people are experts at scamming the system.
Bottom line? Ben’s re-election as US Senator from Nebraska is virtually assured.
December 20th, 2009 | 7:49 am | #29
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December 20th, 2009 | 7:53 am | #30
Memories won’t be as short as they once were.
Don’t count on it. Nelson won’t be up for re-election for another couple of years. For the typical ignorant voter – and there’s a lot of them – that’s an eternity.
December 20th, 2009 | 8:47 am | #31
A Nebraska doctor’s message for Ben Nelson
You have my disgust and disdain forever, you socialist-coddling coward.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/12/20/a-nebraska-doctors-message-for-ben-nelson/
December 20th, 2009 | 9:09 am | #32
Conservatives will wait for him in the long grass. He is now voting for Socialism. He can no longer masquerade as a conservative. Nelson could have fireproofed his position by standing up to Barack the Socialist. His shameful u-turn on abortion will come back to haunt him. He has sacrificed the unborn. His has been an abject surrender. He is a political coward.
He is now voting for the culture of death. Pro-life voters have long memories. So have taxpayers.
December 20th, 2009 | 9:22 am | #33
Blacque Jacques Shellacque
December 20th, 2009 | 7:53 am | #30
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That may yet be true, but I still would like to think that there is a significant change in the air.
Only time will tell. I donated to the cause, nevertheless.
December 20th, 2009 | 9:24 am | #34
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December 20th, 2009 | 9:29 am | #35
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truth sarc on/
hah, like he gives a bats guano..
he’s probably got enough under the table to
retire in comfort vs work his butt off getting
himself re-elected 24-7-365..
/truth sarc off
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December 20th, 2009 | 9:30 am | #36
Toaster, 802.. you raise an important question.. why, if these people want to get re-elected, are they walking off the cliff for bills that are obviously out of favor with the majority of American voters.. do they know something we don’t know about the upcoming election? It seems odd if they don’t that they wouldn’t have more fear of flying in constituents’ faces over major policy issues, despite the bribes they’re bringing home off taxpayer’s backs. What if anything do they know which would explain their behavior, I wonder.
December 20th, 2009 | 9:40 am | #37
Ebay item of the day: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/12/ebay-item-of-day.html
December 20th, 2009 | 9:41 am | #38
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frigg Nelson..
they get their 60 votes ..
tis “we the people” get the boot..
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December 20th, 2009 | 10:02 am | #39
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Scott Jerome @ 2:04 am #19
re: [What you do not understand is that all of these deals that Nelson made for his state were done with FREE MONEY that would have gone somewhere else, had this great man, Bill Nelson, not held out for.]
“But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would–would–would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the–whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.” – Schwartz György
proof of not only how our representatives principles / morals have been
corrupted, but way too many of their constituents as well (that goes for
all 50 States)..
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December 20th, 2009 | 10:30 am | #40
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re: bg @ 10:02 am #39
ps: Scott Jerome @ 2:04 am #19
re: [FREE MONEY]
isn’t free..
it’s our future generations debt..
btw, liberty isn’t free either..
many in past & present generations have risked & are
risking life & limb to assure US the blessings of liberty..
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December 20th, 2009 | 10:56 am | #41
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Sojourner @ 9:30 am #36
re: [What if anything do they know which
would explain their behavior, I wonder.]
1) New Constitution
2) New World Order
3) New Term Limits
4) all of the above
take your pic (while you still can anyways)..
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December 20th, 2009 | 11:00 am | #42
bg… what do you think, if you don’t mind my putting you on the spot, about the question I’m wondering about in #36? Merry.
December 20th, 2009 | 11:25 am | #43
I apologize for forgetting to turn on my SARCASM tags
I hope my point still comes through that to Democrats, while shepherding their liberal programs, actually believe in the concept of FREE MONEY. Senator Reid even went so far as to defend the deal made with Nelson as a legitimate avenue to making deals. They think we are too dumb to know the difference between corruption and beneficence on behalf of “the people”.
December 20th, 2009 | 12:22 pm | #44
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Scott Jerome @11:25 am #43
re: [I apologize for forgetting
to turn on my SARCASM tags]
well you should!! :D
geesh, i ususally question whether someone
is being sarc of not, you sure fooled me!! :D
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December 20th, 2009 | 12:45 pm | #45
Republican politicians should start circulating the notion that as soon as they regain a majority (2010), the will act as quickly as the Dems have to make sure all congress members, current and retired, are subject to the provisions of the laws they pass. I think this would be a wildly popular concept, and difficult to rebut. Though Obama might veto such legislation, it would ensure his lame duck status in a one term presidency.
Dems may think they can rig elections with Acorn and SEIU, but they cannot overcome the tidal wave numbers (55-65%) that oppose them.
December 20th, 2009 | 12:54 pm | #46
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December 20th, 2009 | 1:06 pm | #47
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Sojourner @ 11:00 am #42
oh i think we’re being succumbed via the
combined forces of Marxism & Islamism..
iow: blinded by the Obama light..
he’s not only not real in the sense of his being the man behind the curtain,
but he is the man behind the man behind the curtain.. he is a puppet & a
puppeteer (think China Town on steroids)..
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December 20th, 2009 | 3:13 pm | #48
bg.. Chinatown on steriods.. hmmmmmmm… thanks for your thoughts.
December 20th, 2009 | 9:03 pm | #49
It’s not just acorn, seiu, black panthers, etc. that we have to be concerned about. George Soros has been busy with his influence and money in state politics as well; i.e. – getting libtards elected as secretaries of state on the state-level that answer to him by pouring money into their campaigns. Secretaries of State verify election results. And with these libtards in charge in key battleground states as well as other states, it may be hard for Conservatives to overcome especially if the libtards pull any shenanigans, (think Al Franken times 1000), in 2010/2012.
December 21st, 2009 | 12:26 am | #50
Nebraska has a big 9-12 group and Tea Party movement brewing already. Nelson is done for. They will make sure a true conservative replaces him.
December 21st, 2009 | 9:15 am | #51
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December 21st, 2009 | 2:43 pm | #52
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December 22nd, 2009 | 7:04 am | #53
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December 22nd, 2009 | 8:23 am | #54
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December 22nd, 2009 | 11:22 am | #55
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December 22nd, 2009 | 1:08 pm | #56
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December 23rd, 2009 | 7:49 am | #57
Mr. Nelson has opened the doors for the flood of illegal aliens that will continue to move into nebraska to take the jobs aware from citizens. AND, the people of My state Missouri are going to have to pay for it.
Second, there should be a short term increase in construction as the new abortion clinics are built in opened…..
I have never contributed to a political activity until today when I sent “give ben the boot” money.
December 28th, 2009 | 4:31 am | #58
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December 30th, 2009 | 11:20 am | #59
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January 5th, 2010 | 2:51 pm | #60
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January 7th, 2010 | 3:59 am | #61
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January 7th, 2010 | 10:05 am | #62
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