Having been lambasted from all sides about his “Cornhusker Kickback,” Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson wants to stop talking about this pesky health reform issue and focus on the economy. He’s back home among the angry voters, where he requested an interview with a local paper, to which he averred:
I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy … I would have preferred not to be dealing with health care in the midst of everything else, and I think working on the economy would have been a wiser move.
I’ll bet he does think it was a “mistake.” He regrets it in the same way a bank robber regrets all the unpleasantness his stick-up causes with the police department. I don’t think the voters of Nebraska are buying this transparent BS, however:
He’s down 31 points in the polls against potential challengers for his senate seat and has been in serious damage control mode.
But, like the rest of the phonies in the Blue Dog pack, he isn’t prepared to renounce the his Beltway skulduggery. He’s still claiming that his backroom deal with Harry Reid somehow improved the egregious Senate health “reform” bill:
Nelson said by insisting on certain changes before casting his vote he “took a bad bill and made it better.� He pointed out aspects of the Senate’s bill he said will benefit Nebraska, and called the “Cornhusker Kickback� a “sideshow� that’s gotten too much attention.
Nice try, Ben, but no sale. You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. If the voters of Nebraska have any sense, they’ll give you the bum’s rush you so richly deserve. And I find Nebraskans to be very sensible people.
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