It’s one of the cardinal rules of politics that a candidate currently seeking a given office will never confirm that he’s already decided to run for another, down the line. The standard response to such questions is ‘right now I’m focused on this race.’ And so it is with Governor Dave Heineman, who gives all the right answers about already having ‘the best job in | Read More »
So far, a dominant theme of the health care rationing debate seems to consist in Democrats achieving major ‘breakthroughs,’ only to find those breakthroughs fall through. There were the encouraging negotiations with Snowe, the multiple approaches to the ‘public option,’ and the compromises on abortion funding. But each time Democrats have touted a turning point, it s turned out to be less than meets the | Read More »
How badly did Ben Nelson miscalculate? Clearly, the once-popular former Governor tried to have his cake and eat it too. He didn’t want to take the ‘blame’ for killing the president’s health care rationing bill, but he also did not want to seem like a liberal extremist. So he calculated that he could be a hero to both sides if he led the way on | Read More »
Senator Ben Nelson (D-DeadMeat) continues to try to distance himself from his Obamacare bribe and his vote for the bill: “At the end of the day, whatever Nebraska gets will be available to all states,” Nelson said during a conference call with reporters. In exchange for his crucial support of the reform bill, Nelson was promised federal funding to cover Nebraska’s entire cost of a | Read More »
Ben Nelson said he never asked for Harry Reid to give Nebraska more funding for Medicaid, and now Blanche Lambert Lincoln says that bribe should be deleted from any final health care bill: U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said a political deal that benefits Nebraska and may have clinched a lawmaker’s support for health care legislation should be removed from the bill. The Democratic senator from | Read More »
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