Ben Nelson wants to be re-elected in 2012, so he has suddenly flip-flopped on the ObamaCare mandate. On Chris Matthews he claims he wants to replace it with a “market-based” solution:
But that’s not what he was saying during the long ObamaCare debate. Here’s what he told the guys at NPR during the run-up to his YES vote on the individual […]
Whether the GOP wins back a majority in the House of Representatives or not, it will be sweet to watch all those phony “blue dog” Democrats go down in flames next Tuesday:
Of the eight who flipped their votes to support the bill, two announced their retirement (Bart Gordon and Brian Baird) and five others are in […]
Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has canceled his scheduled 11am press conference, and his previously-reported deal with Nancy Pelosi has apparently collapsed:
House leaders have decided not to give Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a vote on a strict ban on federal funding for abortion and will instead try to muster the 216 votes needed to send a health care […]
One of the Blue Dogs Nancy Pelosi has been trying to flip to a “yesâ€? vote on Obamacare is Representative Jason Altmire (D - PA). This clip suggests they’re not doing so well.
Discussing complaints he’s hearing from the people in his own district, Altmire describes considerable voter discomfort with gimmicks like reconciliation and the Slaughter rule:
You wouldn’t have […]
The following video tells you all you need to know about the quality of the Senate “leadership” under the Democrats. If Baucus is sober during this semi-coherent diatribe, I’m Marie of Romania.
Were Ben Nelson’s objections to the Reid “reform” legislation just an elaborate charade? Yep. If you find it hard to believe that anyone could be that dishonest, your doubts will be killed by the fact that the bill still provides funding for abortions:
The new Reid language that Senator Nelson now finds acceptable would allow federal subsidies to flow to plans that cover elective abortions […]
As many of us suspected, Senator Ben Nelson was not holding out on the Senate “reform” bill because of any real scruple he has on abortion (or anything else). Like any roundheel, he was just negotiating price. Turns out that (part of) the payoff involved extra Medicaid funds for his state:
Under the current merged legislation (the version […]
It looks like Senator Ben nelson has started barking again on the abortion feature of the Senate health reform bill:
In an interview Thursday with a Nebraska radio station, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said new compromise language on abortion funding is unacceptable.
As usual, however, he’s not coming completely out from beneath the porch:
‘As it is right […]
I’ve always been skeptical about Blue Dog opposition to Obamacare. I believe that, like most “moderate” Democrats, they just want to see which way the wind is blowing before coming out from beneath the porch.
So, I yawned when Ben Nelson threatened to filibuster the Senate “reform” bill if it funded abortions. He claimed he’d kill the bill […]