DUmmies Discuss Nebraska

[GOBUCKS]

The democrat from Nebraska, though a socialist through and through, doesn't toe the Stalinist line closely enough to satisfy the DUmp.

kristopher  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-31-09 07:39 PM
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Sam Stein on Ben Nelson's threats - 
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/ben-nelson-on-...
Sam Stein

Ben Nelson On Ads Run Against Him: They Could Kill Health Care Reform

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) lashed out Friday at the ads being run against his position on health care reform in his home state, saying they would backfire -- and might even derail the entire reform process.

In a statement issued late in the afternoon by Nelson's office, spokesman Jake Thompson warned that if the new series of ads calling out the Senator's "stalling" on reform were "an indication of the politics going into August, then health care reform may be dead by the end of August."

"Nebraskans don't need outside special interest groups telling them what to think. Senator Nelson has nothing but praise for Nebraska groups working toward health care reform. Unfortunately, he says, these outside groups undermine the sincere and dedicated efforts of people in our state," Thompson wrote. "Recently, similar ads have run in Nebraska. Those ads by other special interests prompted hundreds of Nebraskans to call our offices, with 9 to 1 urging Senator Nelson to do exactly the opposite of what the special interest group wanted. In short, the ads backfired."...

...Asked if Thompson's warning would dissuade his organization from running the ad -- which is slated to air 200 times in Nebraska by next Wednesday -- Adam Green, founder of PCCC, responded: "Absolutely not. We're going to buy more ads in Nebraska on Monday."

"Ben Nelson just called a Nebraska small businessman whose health insurance costs went up 42%, an out-of-state special interest, while never disputing that he is bought and paid for by health and insurance interests who gave him millions to vote against his own constituents," Green continued. "If Ben Nelson stands behinds his spokesman's words, he just proved himself a fundamentally corrupt and out-of-touch politician who feels perfectly comfortable lying to his constituents and going to bat for private insurers who fear competition and want to rip off the people of Nebraska."



Nelson makes my skin crawl. What kind of ethics does this man possess?

 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6195444

DUmmy The Magistrate, thought by many to be someone's mole, speaks of his disdain for Nebraska:

The Magistrate  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-31-09 08:07 PM
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2. Good For Mr. Green, Sir! 
 These empty heads from vast and empty windy spaces have to be corralled....

"Every time he opens his mouth he subtracts from the sum of human knowledge."

   
 

[franksolich]

Oh my.

Some might, but most might not, recall a comparison I wrote here, a comparison between Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) and Senator George Norris (R-Nebraska), generally considered the "best" senator from Nebraska, but unanimously considered the best-known senator from Nebraska.

Senator Nelson's doing exactly what the Republican voters of this state have sent him to Washington to do--just as George Norris of prior fame--to shake up, rattle, discombobulate, the establishment, which of course are Democrats entrenched in Congress; to remind them that Nebraska exists, and Nebraska counts.

He's doing an admirable job of it.

These advertisements, by the way, are being paid for by non-Nebraskans.

I just thought that needed pointed out.

[thundley4]

These advertisements, by the way, are being paid for by non-Nebraskans.

I just thought that needed pointed out.

That brings up a good point for campaign reform. Ads targeting/endorsing a candidate should be funded only by in state donors/groups. 

[franksolich]

That brings up a good point for campaign reform. Ads targeting/endorsing a candidate should be funded only by in state donors/groups.

You know, outsiders coming into Nebraska to sell something to us doesn't work.

I give you the example of the gay marriage issue on the November 2000 ballot.

I've told this story before, but it's a good story, and so I'll tell it again.

Now, the gay marriage thing would've lost anyway, but by a much smaller margin, if non-Nebraska special interests hadn't gotten involved. 

The gay lobby poured tons of money into Nebraska that year, oddles of money, stacks of money, mountains of money, making Nebraskans in the advertising agencies wealthy.  Damn, they poured a lot of money into Nebraska.

But the worst thing they did was send all these professional gays from New York City and San Francisco out here.

Now, Nebraska like anywhere else has gays, and franksolich will defend with his life their equal rights under the U.S. Bill of Rights (but no special rights not accorded anybody else).  Nebraska gays tend to be like straight Nebraskans; modest, unassuming, aw-shucks, sorts of people.

These professional gays from New York City and San Francisco however were something else, in their attire and mannerisms.  Something from another planet.  In another galaxy.  In another universe.

And they violated the first rule of politics in Nebraska; a rule scrupulously observed by every candidate, Republican and Democrat, who wishes to win here.

Cattle are normally placid, compliant, beasts, but can be "spooked" by sudden and bright colors, movements, noise.  Spooked cattle are no laughing matter; people get injured and even killed, dealing with them.  Even the people in the big cities of Nebraska appreciate the horrors and calamities of dealing with spooked cattle. 

And so the first rule of politics in Nebraska is, don't spook the cattle.

Well, we had all of these professional gays from New York City and San Francisco here, prancing around, dancing around, hip-hopping, tip-toeing, swirling, gyrating, winking, bumping.....at the same time their ear-rings, nose-rings, chin-rings, teat-rings, navel-rings, groin-rings, and bracelets and necklaces glittering and sparkling, and all these bright flashy colors.  And the incessant jingle-jangling of the same.

These professional gays violated the first rule of politics in Nebraska.

This is why gay marriage was rejected circa 70-30% rather than, say 55-45%.

[GOBUCKS]

The homo invasion of Nebraska, and its result, is similar to the campaign against George W. Bush in Ohio. In 2004, Marxists in London targeted mostly rural Clark County as critical for the ketchup gigolo, even sending missionaries and thousands of personal letters to properly inform the corn-planting, swine-raising bumpkins on the realities of politics. Their efforts were not well received. Clark County was the only county in the state to switch from Gore in 2000, to Bush in 2004. This made the job much easier for Diebold to swing Ohio to W by a razor thin margin, and cement another four years of DUmmy suffering.

[The Village Idiot]

I would imagine that gays in Nebraska don't hump each other in the street and call it a "parade"

[debk]

Oh my.

Some might, but most might not, recall a comparison I wrote here, a comparison between Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) and Senator George Norris (R-Nebraska), generally considered the "best" senator from Nebraska, but unanimously considered the best-known senator from Nebraska.

Senator Nelson's doing exactly what the Republican voters of this state have sent him to Washington to do--just as George Norris of prior fame--to shake up, rattle, discombobulate, the establishment, which of course are Democrats entrenched in Congress; to remind them that Nebraska exists, and Nebraska counts.

He's doing an admirable job of it.

These advertisements, by the way, are being paid for by non-Nebraskans.

I just thought that needed pointed out.

One of the TVA lakes and dam near here is Norris Lake....named after Senator Norris.

He was my ex's great(?) uncle.

[franksolich]

One of the TVA lakes and dam near here is Norris Lake....named after Senator Norris.

He was my ex's great(?) uncle.

Yeah, that was the problem with George Norris, back in the 1930s.

Back then, Tennessee had three U.S. Senators, and Nebraska had one, because Norris was working on behalf of Tennessee instead of his own state.

But because Norris always gave the establishment Hell, while Nebraskans didn't much care for his politics, they kept sending him back to Washington because of the sheer joy and pleasure of watching him give the Establishment Hell.

If Ben Nelson keeps giving the present-day Establishment Hell--the Democrats in Congress--he could probably count on being elected for life.

Somebody's got to do it, reminding the assholes back east that Nebraska is, and Nebraska counts.

If Norris was related to the ex, he was probably a great-great uncle, because Norris was born circa 1860 or 1865, I think.  He was older than God when Nebraska voters finally retired him, in 1942.

[Airwolf]

I would imagine that gays in Nebraska don't hump each other in the street and call it a "parade"

No they don't. In fact you wouldn't even no0tice them unless they wanted you to

[franksolich]

The primitves as usual don't know shit.

Maru Kitteh  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-31-09 09:09 PM
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8. I hope Scott Kleeb will run against him. He very narrowly lost to Bush's ex Sec. of Ag., Mike Johanns, the squishy little prick who used to be our Governor.

Scott Kleeb did not "narrowly" lose.  The margin was pretty vast.

Just as in 2006, when Scott Kleeb ran for Congress from the western two-thirds of Nebraska, and ran a "close" race.  It wasn't close, and in fact Kleeb did worse than any Democrat candidate for an open seat there in my whole lifetime.

And to top it off, Kleeb is more to the "right" than Nelson.

A lot of disinformation about Nebraska going around.