It looks like the DNC spent nearly half-a-million dollars to praise Ben Nelson for ruining health care reform. According to Joe Sudbay at Americablog: Last month, Ben Nelson did a TV ad defending his vote on health care. He talks straight to the camera and disses those “who wanted a government takeover.” That sounds like [...]

Finally, all it takes is the possibility of losing a Senate seat in Massachusetts plus tanking poll numbers for House Democrats for Congressional leaders to admit they really only need a simple majority in the Senate to pass health care reform. “Even before Massachusetts and that race was on the radar screen, we prepared for [...]

I find it very interesting that of the dozens of different industry giveaways, pieces of pork, and lobbyist carve-outs found in the health care bill, Ben Nelson’s extra Medicaid money for his state has gotten the bulk of the fire from Republicans. Interesting it is the not allowing insurance companies to keep their anti-trust exemption, [...]

This is literally and completely insane. If Ben Nelson gets his way on this, you really can’t even call the bill “reform” anymore. Nelson responded with his own letter to Heineman. “In your letter you note that the current Senate bill is not in Nebraska’s best interest. I agree. That is why I continue to [...]

The White House and Harry Reid are preparing to give Ben Nelson anything he wants in exchange for his vote. It appears that this anything could be a gutting of the single best remaining piece of reform, Medicaid expansion: Earlier Thursday, in an interview with a Nebraska radio station, Nelson said even if the abortion [...]

Ben Nelson has rejected Harry Reid’s latest compromise on the abortion language: Nelson told KLIN radio in Lincoln, Nebraska, Thursday that an attempt at compromise doesn’t get to the fundamental issue of barring federal funding for abortions. Nelson says without further changes the compromise isn’t sufficient. It sounds like Nelson is trying to go for [...]

Ben Nelson has a message for Democrats: “don’t forget about Ben Nelson.” While everyone has been fretting about Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson has remained an equally big hurdle to get 60 votes for cloture. Now that Joe Lieberman has taken a big bite out of reform, it is now time for Senator Nelson to get [...]

If I wanted Joe Lieberman writing a health care bill, I would’ve voted for John McCain.

Howard Dean is right. Kill the Senate bill.

It did not take long for the newest “deal” on the public option to fall apart. On Face The Nation, Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson have both shot down the Medicare buy in proposal which was the key component to the newest “deal” Harry Reid claimed to reach. Of course some Democrats are trying to [...]

It is time for a fair warning to all Democrats currently in Congress: Don’t be shocked when your bases does not turn out next year. The public option is still supported by 59% of Americans and 80% of self-identified Democrats. Despite its overwhelming popularity, the Democrats in the Senate have been working tirelessly to kill [...]