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BEN NELSON WILL NOT INCUR THE PROMISED/FEARED WRATH OF YOUR WONKETTE: The Democratic Senator will vote “aye” on the health care bill, ergo the celebratory Americana disco accoutrement at left. “This weekend, I will vote for the motion to proceed to bring that debate onto the Senate floor. The Senate should start trying to fix a health care system that costs too much and delivers too little for Nebraskans.” Fine, Ben Nelson, you are excused from time-out. [Omaha World-Herald]
That’s okay, we got plenty senators left who will need Wonket’s special cattle-prod type of persuasion.
Orrin will now release his holy crusaders upon you Ben.
Eh, he’s still not out of the water yet:
Nelson said he supports some parts of the bill and opposes other parts, which he will work to fix. If that’s not possible, he said, he will oppose the vote to end debate and oppose final passage.
As long as he’s keeping his option to be an obstructionist prick open, I’m keeping my manure bag open.
Yes, those nine people he represents in Nebraska don’t get enough out of this bill. Please put in an amendment giving them free trailers, Camaros and trucknutz for life.
Just curious–is Wonkette standing in the Senate balcony, arm poised, fist full of guano, targeting the wavering democrats? Cuz I would sure pay money to see that.
Is the Droopy Dog still voting nay?
BlueStateLibtard: As a Nebraskan I take total offense to that. You forgot the giant foam ear of corn to stick on my head during a sacred Husker game.
SayItWithWookies: Doesn’t that open poo bag kinda stink up the place? I guess we all have to make sacrifices. Thanks for your service!
Looking forward to the new Naval Readiness Center complex in downtown Omaha!
BlueStateLibtard: BBlueStateLibtard: corn. You forgot corn.
V572625694: I would think it would be more like a breath of fresh air in that place.
Who replaced Ben Nelson with a Dembot look a like?
First it’s Harry Reid with balls.
Now, Ben Nelson is only going to be a partial asshole.
What next, Joe Lie with a Soul and some honor?
Heh. Thought not.
Aw, thanks for allowing your party to move the most important bill of the term to the floor so it can be openly debated! Your commitment to an open and democratic legislative process is truly awe-inspiring, you self-important prick.
BlueStateLibtard: Nelson was won over when he found out that all Nebraskans would get a free trip to the rainforest exhibit in Omaha, followed by lunch at spaghetti works.
V572625694: I keep it out back — closer to the catapult.
DAMMIT! I was looking forward to a little Ben Nelson sodomy— for the kids.
What a weenie. Afraid to be called mean names by Rachel Maddow. He and Claire McCatskills ought to gedda room.
ph7: Actually, the Navy has an Undersea Warfare Center in Hawthorne, Nevada. Yes, under the freakin’ desert.
So your scenario ain’t that far-fetched!
Omaha World Herald carried two stories above the fold: This one about Ben, and the investigation into the death of 3,800 hogs that suffocated on their own stench after a vandal turned off the hog pen ventilation.
So Vinegar Joe is the sole proprietor of the jerk store for now? FOR NOW.
proudgrampa: Well, I did learn to water-ski there on Walker Lake, so there is that.
BlueStateLibtard: First, 49% of registered voters in Nebraska are non-Republicans. 32.6% of all voters are Democrats and Greens. It’s a significant minority.
Do you dismiss “all five African-Americans in Georgia”, because they are only 29.38% of the population there? I mean I understand that you are probably 18 and deal mostly in stereotypes, not empirical facts, but this is pretty absurd even for a Wonketteer.
Excelsior!!
shortsshortsshorts: Oh, I’m sure he’s got plenty of that on tape, already.
Jim89048: That is a beautiful lake. Any submarine carcasses in it?
BrownPenance: What the hell are you talking about?!? I was just having some honest fun at the expense of people who live in Nebraska. Or is the deal I proposed not good enough? You Nebraskians want a second back-up Camaro in case you DUI crash the first one? I’m sure Senator Nelson would not object.
ph7: if that doesn’t turn you away from ever eating CAFO meat again……..people have also died breathing the fumes from a hog ‘lagoon’. Lagoons of shit and piss right next to the crowded animals. I will never eat an animal who spent their whole life in prison and on drugs.
Oh, and Nelson can go jump in the lagoon if he votes against this bill.
ManchuCandidate: Joe’s actually going to vote on the motion to proceed.
It’s Blanche Lincoln whose going to fuck us over. Latest poll shows she loses support if she votes for reform, so yeah….
BrownPenance: Knuckleheads, ie “healthcare=deathcare” crowd, are a bipartisan lot, and rampant throughout Nebraska. And Missouri. And Wyoming (hi from a neighbor, Nebraska!). And Oklahoma. This blessed nation is full of drunken sailors given to bouts of shouting, rickets and forgetting where they parked the boat.
I just can’t wait for 30 years from now when the teabaggers are all grousing about how the latest ethnic elected official is going to TAKE AWAY their universal health care…
Yup… It’s gonna happen…
I Reid can pull this one off, I’ll pull one off in solidarity.
Fuck. All this just to get the end started.
Accordion-o-rama: Hear, hear.
BrownPenance: No more Green party in Nebraska. All of the Green party voters got shifted to Non-partisan this Spring.