According to a local Charleston paper, The Post & Courier, Senator Ben Nelson’s pathetic plea to South Carolina Attorney General, Henry McMaster, has fallen on deaf ears:
McMaster said Monday that a plea from U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson to “call off the dogs” won’t deter him from fighting a provision in the Senate’s health care overhaul bill that favors Nebraska.
In fact, the effort to derail the “Cornhusker Kickback” and other unconstitutional elements of Obamacare is actually picking up some state-level Democrat support:
McMaster’s initiative to prepare legal action against the provision gained more support Monday when Oklahoma’s Drew Edmondson became the 14th attorney general in the country and the first Democrat to sign on.
So far, however, congressional Democrats and the Obama administration aren’t paying any more attention to McMaster than they are paying to C-Span or the voters:
McMaster wrote a letter co-signed by 12 state attorneys general to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to warn about possible legal action if the provision is not deleted. McMaster said he has not received a response.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. McMaster is running for South Carolina governor. I hope this is more than a cheap publicity stunt to keep his name in the papers.
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