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 [...]

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 [...]

We might get the vote on the House bill next Tuesday. The issue of abortion may hold up the bill, but it looks like Stupak might not have the votes needed to hold the bill hostage. The House Republicans finally released their “alternative” health care bill and it is terrible. It does contain one Democratic [...]

Oregon, as you may know, is a mail-in ballot. Which means, according to PPP, Obama may have already won. He was polling at 59% yesterday, with 74% of respondents in. Interesting stuff in the brave new world of mail-in ballots.Meanwhile, in Kentucky, as state where the Eastern half has very similar demographics to those of West Virginia, Sen.