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 eliminating the supposed inequities in the bill, and ensured the passage of a moderate compromise. Instead, it seems the voters of Nebraska recognize that he’s more responsible than anyone for bringing a terrible bill close to final passage:
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife were leaving dinner at a new pizza joint near their home in Omaha one night last week when a patron began complaining about Nelson’s decisive vote in favor of the Senate’s health care bill.
Other customers started booing. A woman yelled, “Get him the hell out of here!” And the Nelsons and their dining companions beat a hasty retreat.
“It was definitely a scene in there,” said Tom Lewis, a 41-year-old dentist and registered Republican who witnessed the incident.
It’s a new experience for Nelson.
He used to be a popular figure back home, a Democrat who served eight years in the governor’s office and was elected twice to the Senate by a state that’s as red as the “N” on football helmets…
Anti-abortion activists who have supported him in the past have abandoned him; he’s been the target of a fierce campaign by opponents to push him to block the bill on final passage; and the GOP now sees the opportunity for a pickup in 2012.
Meantime, Nelson is still viewed warily by more liberal Democrats who distrust his conservative leanings and remain upset with his opposition to a public option.
It sounds as if Ben Nelson may be doomed for re-election – even though he doesn’t face the voters for another three years. Right now he stands as the critical vote in favor of the most unpopular part of an unpopular president’s agenda. And what’s worse, that same president will be at the top of the ticket when Nelson seeks re-election in a deep red state. It may be too late for Nelson to save his re-election hopes, or it may be that he still has a chance – if he votes to kill a bill that will never be popular in a state like Nebraska.
It’s clear at least, that Cornhusker voters won’t be fooled anymore.
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I really hope things get so bad for this SoB that
mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:11AM EST (link)he has to move to San Francisco to get a good night sleep.
Ben Nelson is marching in lockstep with Marxists who’ve spent their every waking moment for the last 50+ years trying – and perhaps succeeding – to turn the US into the USSR.
I hope every remaining day of his life is hell.
Don't sugar-coat it becker
Warrior (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:23AM EST (link)tell us how you really feel….(LOL)
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Wrong
Mark Impomeni (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:12AM EST (link)I get that people are frustrated and angry at Nelson. But the behavior of these Nebraskans is simply wrong. Politics has to end somewhere, and I draw the line at letting a family enjoy a dinner out without fear of being run out of a restaurant.
Ben Nelson is a buffoon and a traitor go the values of the people who elected him for his support of this disastrous health care bill. But the place for voters to express their frustrations with him is at his office or the voting booth, not the local pizza joint.
Just my two cents.
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Damn the Obama! Full speed ahead!
Wrong Mark.
mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:19AM EST (link)Until these arrogant, power-mad, a$$holes have to start paying a personal price for their actions they won’t change. It’s time we brought their ivory towers down around their heads. I applaud the Nebraskans and my only regret (2 actually) I wasn’t their to cheer them on and they didn’t take off on him when he showed up.
Nelson is lucky the pitchforks did not come out
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:22AM EST (link)I am sure plenty of these folks in Nebraska do have pitchforks.
It’s time to shove back a little. Don’t let the Marxists take over.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
but becker, he wasn't acting like a true liberal
bk (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:38AM EST (link)A typical liberal would either have:
1) Eaten at some restaurant where the only people who could afford the food are millionaire limousine liberals or
2) Demanded that the restaurant be closed to all but his personal entourage.
So at least he should get some credit for deigning to visit a joint that we normal people use.
Right on
chbroussard (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:48AM EST (link)We have TRIED for months to handle our opposition to this health care bill in a dignified way. We have called and faxed and written letters to elected officials like Mr. Nelson to express our opposition, and what has been the result? We’ve been ignored. So, if it takes Mr. Nelson being booed out of a restaurant, so be it. Now he may finally understand. I am way passed trying to reason with these pompous officials who think they know what’s best for me. I hope he gets booed out of every public place in Nebraska that he chooses to enter.
Like I said, I get the frustration..
Mark Impomeni (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:13AM EST (link)..but there has to be some level of civility. Bring all the pitchforks and torches to town hall meetings, his offices, press conferences, and public appearances. I’m all for that
But leave his home and family alone.
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Damn the Obama! Full speed ahead!
NO! Focus on the home and family
Old_Crow (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:23AM EST (link)Great pressure points. Make it HURT. EVERY DAY
Let him know he will be HATED even when he leaves office.
Ridiculed for into his retirement years.
YES IT’S THAT IMPORTANT.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
It is a conservative tenet that actions (and words) have...
Conservative Phantom Thursday, January 14th at 9:45AM EST (link)…consequences. Add to that that an elected official (especially someone elected to a statewide office) works for the people and it is a 24/7 job.
Nelson has for years enjoyed the positive side of office. I am certain that no one objected when adoration was heaped on him in a public setting.
So…now he awakens to the fact that public opinion sword cuts both ways. Gosh, darn it, that’s just too bad for him.
You can argue the “some level of civility” angle until you are blue in the face, Mark, but the people of Nebraska have figured out that this man that works for them is going to doom them (and their children) to higher taxes and a significant reduction in their standard of living. Those that had previously supported a supposed champion of the unborn have also realized that he is nothing of the sort.
There is nothing at all “civil” about driving a knife into the back of the people that you purport to represent. You won’t be able to switch off the end results of Nelson’s vote during the dinner hour…it will live on with us…every second of every day for the rest of our lives. And do not also forget that these so-called “men of the people” will frequently deny their constituents access to themselves during “office hours” if that serves their purposes.
If the only thing that Nelson has to endure is public ridicule and derision then he should consider himself fortunate. He deserves far worse than mere heckling.
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And be as politically incorrect as you damn well please.
home and family?
karenmartin (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:51AM EST (link)I think we could agree to leave his home and family alone … if he had not so completely thrown MY home and family to the gutter with his whoring vote
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They're not having town hall meetings are they?
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:30AM EST (link)They’ve turned off the fax machines and they vote in the dead of night so they don’t have to deal with the complaints and the riff raff exorcising the right to petition their representatives for a redress of their grievances…
We need some way to get through to these people that doesn’t involve violence…and I can’t think of anything we could do that would get their attention than to heckle them from the sidewalk and in every public place every single time they leave their homes and offices….
They want civility…maybe they should represent their constituents instead of dropping trow and pissing all over them!
Nelson is an elected public official
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:09AM EST (link)and when he took the oath of office, he promised adherence to the Constitution, and to the constituients that put him in office. He has abandoned both. The only time he deserves “civility” is when he is visiting the john.
Nothing hits home...
bart Thursday, January 14th at 1:45PM EST (link)quite like a “death panel.”
No. Not for a minute.
mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 4:45PM EST (link)I mean it when I say he should be hounded not just from office but out of Nebraska. Every day of the rest of his life should be either difficult or down right hard.
yes...
charpaddy Thursday, January 14th at 8:26AM EST (link)Just like everyone leaves Sarah Palin alone when she is out with her family….yeah, right….
We must take it to their homes just like libs do. It is UNPOPULAR. Let him eat it. He will just have to man up…gee, like any of these idiots will do that. If they did, then they would not be voting for this monstrosity of a healthcare bill.
GOOD. I also just wish that I could have been there. These Senators won’t face their constituents during their recesses, so I think it’s GREAT that Senator Nelson is actually having to face their wrath.
YAY!!!
I agree in general, but...
mschmitt (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:36AM EST (link)… civility is properly lost when our elected leaders turned rulers have decided that they are no longer satisfied with their right to the products of our lives, they want the right to decide when we live and die, as well.
If this arrogant buffoon wants to be able to eat a slice of pizza in peace, maybe he should consider doing his part as an elected representative to ensure that the people are able to live and die in peace.
usque ad finem
Public humiliation has long been an american tradition for people like Nelson
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:52AM EST (link)I say…good for those people…He’s betrayed them saying he represents them when he really wants to Lord it over them…
in an earlier and much more gentile time Nelson wouldn’t only have been chased out of the Pizza Joint…he’d have been painted with boiling tar…covered in feathers…and run out of town on a rail!
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nessa (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:55AM EST (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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100% wrong Mark ! We have to make this personal
Old_Crow (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:19AM EST (link)Congress needs to hear our frustrations every day, the best place is in public. We need to approach them EVERY time they are in public. School events, shopping malls, approach their friends. Make them feel the HEAT. Make them afraid to go out in public. This is not a game any more. Messing with every citizen’s health care is very serious. I think we should be protesting around their homes 24/7 and making their lives a complete misery. After all, they are doing their best to make our lives misery.
We need to step it up a notch and make Nelson afraid to even leave his house, knowing that he will be publicly rebuked wherever he goies
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
I say...
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:31AM EST (link)If he wants civility and to be left alone, he should ask for it in the speech in which he resigns.
“I did wrong, I will pay for it and apologize for it by stepping down immediately and foregoing all gov’t pensions and so forth. In return, I ask that you leave me and my family alone, as I now realize that you have a right to be left alone.”
That works. I think they would leave him alone after that. We are, after all, a forgiving people. But right is right. He has proven to be the wrong man for the job. He should not be in it, right now – not in 3 years.
“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”
- Sonny Boy Williamson
Now *that's* a great idea.
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:01AM EST (link)Consider this a second to the motion.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
And Charles,
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:03AM EST (link)are you related to Francis? This can’t be a coincidence.
He’s one of my all time RS favorites.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
He's my brother.
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:15AM EST (link)He’s got 18 months on me.
“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”
- Sonny Boy Williamson
Welcome to RS
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:52PM EST (link)Any relative (or friend) of Blackhedd is a friend of mine. I hope you enjoy yourself here.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Thanks.
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:07PM EST (link)This is my 27th month here.
“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”
- Sonny Boy Williamson
Oops. You know I never forget a name or a face.
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:46PM EST (link)It just sometimes takes me a few years to remember them.
Joke:
Martha goes out to lunch with one of her old friends. As they sit drinking their tea, Martha says to her friend, “I want you to know how much I appreciate you. You’ve been my friend for as long as I can remember and I don’t know what I’d do without you. But if you don’t mind, I need to know something.”
Her friends says, “Well sure, what is it?”
Martha says, “I can’t remember your name.”
The friend draws herself up and looks at Martha in a somewhat startled manner. “Oh,” she says. “How soon do you need to know?”
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
That's pretty good.
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, January 15th at 9:39AM EST (link)I do understand, of course — he casts a pretty big shadow. Have you ever met my brother?
Growing up with Francis is the reason I never found the circus particularly entertaining. He is a *remarkably* peculiar man.
Seriously, though: it’s been said (never mind by whom) that your first indication that someone is smarter than the average bear is usually a unique sense of humor. His is, well, unique. I think it is something that people who only know him in print may not be properly aware of, because it does not really come out in his thoughtful writing; he’s not here to be an entertainer, after all. But, hard as it is for me to say from my perspective, I have to think he must be a very interesting person to meet for the first time. I will say this: I have never known anyone like him.
“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”
- Sonny Boy Williamson
I've never met your brother, but have developed a great respect for him.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Friday, January 15th at 9:47AM EST (link)There were a handful of people who didn’t make it to the RedState gathering in Atlanta who I was really looking forward to meeting in person. Francis was one of them. Now I’m even more sorry I didn’t get to meet him.
I know you weren’t asking me, but I couldn’t resist.
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I haven't got to meet him,
itrytobenice (Diary) Friday, January 15th at 9:58PM EST (link)but I’d like to. And I’ve noticed his wit in some of his postings.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Well, look, these DC politicians are going to hear from We The People, whatever the venue . . .
cardcarryingmom (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:36AM EST (link)They won’t take calls from We The People. They refuse to vote according to their constituents’ wishes, who pay their salaries. Their goons and thugs are literally beating up folks on the streets; either by literal physical beatings, or shoving people to the ground or simply ignoring their constituents — We The People are being abused and harranged and witnessing the utter destruction of our great nation. We have been called unspeakable names by the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority leader, potus and the MSM.
Certainly, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Kenneth Gladney, that National Review reporter (night before last), Joe the Plumber and many others have been the ultimate victims of the Democratic opposition tactics.
If public humiliation is the only remaining way for us to get our message across to them and these politicians choose to run away, then so be it. We have remained calm and dignified in the face of grave danger to our way of life, our ability to support our families and ourselves, and our right to care for our own bodies. We cannot remain silent any longer!
Good for Nebraskans! We Texans join you in your dissent and disgust!
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No - treat them like they treat us
rwb_hoosier Thursday, January 14th at 10:19AM EST (link)They have thumbed their noses at us, called us redneck racist nazis, and are shoving a socialist agenda down our throats. Hell no, we shouldn’t treat them with civility. We should be booing them out of any public place they go.
The time for mamby-pamby, “the distiguished gentleman from Nebraska”, girly-man niceties is over. Treat these politicians like the scum they are. Make them feel shame for what they are doing to us.
People with reasonable concerns have been derided
mingfrommongo Thursday, January 14th at 11:27AM EST (link)to the extent that they were relegated to voicing opinions in hushed tones. Now that the ruling class has overstepped their bounds so far, those so demeaned are now in a position to give them a dose or two of their own potion.
No - treat them like they treat us
rwb_hoosier Thursday, January 14th at 10:19AM EST (link)They have thumbed their noses at us, called us redneck racist nazis, and are shoving a socialist agenda down our throats. Hell no, we shouldn’t treat them with civility. We should be booing them out of any public place they go.
The time for mamby-pamby, “the distiguished gentleman from Nebraska”, girly-man niceties is over. Treat these politicians like the scum they are. Make them feel shame for what they are doing to us.
obama, the democrats and the Black Panthers intimidated voters in Philadelphia, obama intimidated Cops in cambridge MASS, obamas' OfA(obamas foney ACORN) intimidated many Bank employees.
bobojake (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:41AM EST (link)Nelsons inconvience was nothing compared to the Chicago thugs.
Mark, he and his family should know the fear.
joayn (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:49AM EST (link)By trashing the constitution, ignoring the people he represents, and violating his oath in office he deserves this treatment times infinity.
Ever heard the phrase taxation without representation and the little story that goes with it? Ben Nelson needs to be reminded how that story turned out.
America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte
Does Nelson care about our families?
neyney Thursday, January 14th at 11:12AM EST (link)I’m from Texas. If you think he was given a trashing in Nebraska it’s nothing compared to what he would receive if he came here. There’s a reason so many Texans wear cowboy boots. We’d put boot to butt so fast we’d kick him straight back to D.C. Nelson was heard to exclaim “they didn’t even let me finish my aragula”
Wrong
patriotparty1 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:25AM EST (link)I feel it is fitting he got ran out of dinner. These people that we pay, and we send to Washington to work for us and represent our wishes ARE NOT LISTENING to us! They are breaking their oaths of office and in my opinion should be able to be brought up on charges by the people of their states for breaking that oath, and defying the constitution.
If they will not listen we have to tell them by any means necessary. That is the problem with republican leaders now. They are too polite and laid back. We do not have to stoop to the low level of the libs by frauding elections and sending untion thugs to rough voters up, but we have got to start standing up for ourselves.
He will remember being run out of that restaurant much, much more and the impact will be bigger in his mind than a thousand angry phone calls to his office would have done.
Bravo people!
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
It still amazes me
bigmaude Thursday, January 14th at 8:27AM EST (link)That in a country of a republic, freedom, the right to LIFE, liberty and the pursiut of happiness, we are actually arguing over whether or not we should kill our children!!!!! If ANY of us had the “guts” we’d all be in DC pulling them all out by the hair of their head and kicking them down those stairs to the capital! Nothing changes in history, just technology. We’ve gotten so smart, we can kill about 4000 babies a day. Wow, we are really coming right along in this blessed country…..Ben Nelson will live a life of regret, okay then.
We have waged at least three wars
jccbin (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:35AM EST (link)to destroy, as in kill dead, nations that believe what Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Andy Stern and our beloved President believe.
To say that they deserve polite tolerance is an insult to those who fought (like my father), and those who died in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the various overt and covert operations over the decades.
Quite simply, these people are the mortal enemy of America. You would no sooner politely ask a murderer to leave your home, so don’t let these people get away, either.
They don’t understand that they are spitting in America’s face and pulling a gun on us all. They should.
It's not delivery,
bigmaude Thursday, January 14th at 8:42AM EST (link)it’s Digoirno…. Here is an idea….. I get coupons for pizza all the time, let’s send Ben coupons for pizza to 1600 Penn Ave in DC. Nelson would know he is on the way out and can you just see his face when he starts opening all those buy one get one for free!!!!!!! What do ya think?
I like it. ^5.
WarEagle01 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 8:49AM EST (link)n/t
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
Can we have a movement here at Red State Erick? Maybe front page this idea? nt
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:14AM EST (link)Nelson hosed his constituents
jeepingeoff Thursday, January 14th at 8:48AM EST (link)by flipping the finger to those who pay his salary. No sympathy from me. He can have his pizza delivered in the future…
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In earlier Times he'd be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail!
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:04AM EST (link)More tarring and feathering
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:05AM EST (link)Retry
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:05AM EST (link)http://www.1776mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tar-and-feather-2.jpg
retry 2
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:06AM EST (link)Tarring and Feathering at the ORIGINAL Tea Party
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:07AM EST (link)LMAO! It figures...
nessa (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:25AM EST (link)…that you would keep a collection of tarring and feathering pics! Now that’s entertainment!
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Google images is a wonderful thing...LOL nt
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:18AM EST (link)Let me be clear here...lest some moby pick this up and say we're advocating tarr and feathers in reality...
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:36AM EST (link)I’m showing these representations to show public ridicule is a time honored tradition in America and were this the turn of the century…members of a community who brought shame or disaster on a community were dealt with far more harshly than being heckled out of a restaurant!
So…let’s not actually Tar and Feather anyone…but let’s make them fear crossing their constituents again.
Heh...I'm showing my age...I should say...if this were the turn of the last century...LOL nt
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:38AM EST (link)2000 doesn’t count
I'm not so sure they would have been even that polite. (nt)
The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 12:51PM EST (link)Civility my A&&!!!
dmartin Thursday, January 14th at 9:08AM EST (link)Are we to allow liberty to go civily and quietly to the gallows? Based on the Supreme Court sanctioned right to regulate what it subsidises, this bill gives the federal government the right to regulate every aspect of your behavior that even has the potential to effect your health or safety.This is not your run of the mill piece of bad legislation, this is the game ender, check mate!! If this is what it takes to get their attention, let em have it!!
I suspect that this type of outburst is just a hint of what might happen if this gets signed into law. Particularly in light of the latest union exemption to the taxes that the rest of us will be subject to, I can see labor/union violence that could make the early twentieth century look tame.
How about the patrons right to eat in peace
lewbrown Thursday, January 14th at 9:31AM EST (link)No one is happy with Nelsons choice on health care, but the patrons did have a choice of not having their meal disturbed by someone who obviously disturbed them. Good for them, I would have been fuming and better to direct that disgust toward him than take it out on my friends. It’s going to be a rough road for politicians, until they get their sole back. When I was growing up, I was taught respect. Sadly, our Congress no longer Respect “We the People”, shame on them, but they will after the 2012 elections.
Respect?
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:33AM EST (link)Respect went out the door when that fascist voted to send me to jail for not buying People’s State Approved medical insurance.
No tears here. It’s personal.
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5555 (nt)
sharonmcp (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:37AM EST (link)“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan
Good one, Neil!
janis (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:05AM EST (link)I commented to bs some time back that these folks had to come home at some point, they couldn’t just den up in DC and stay there. It’s their just reward to get humiliated in public after what they’ve done to all of us. The citizens of Nebraska are the ones who were supposedly the recipients of that “sweet deal” and they are the ones who are enraged by what Nelson did.
Who are we to say that they are behaving in an uncivil manner? Far as I’m concerned, it’s mild compared to what these people deserve. If more of them realize that they have to face the wrath of the voters, and not just at the ballot box, then maybe they will think twice about betraying us the next time. Should be educational for whatever new crop of politicos takes the oath next January.
Amen Neil nt
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:19AM EST (link)Nelson pariah project
Kyle-MI (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:32AM EST (link)Here is hoping that Nelson has negative coattails on all Nebraska Democrats as I mentioned in a diary last month:
http://www.redstate.com/kyleh/2009/12/21/the-nelson-pariah-project/
At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if he announces an early retirement (of course after the final vote for this monstrosity).
He should be glad he wasn't chased out of town
antisocial (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 9:37AM EST (link)Pitchforks would have been best… Although hockey sticks, bamboo sticks, wrenches would have worked just fine.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Sorry, no hockeysticks...
tir (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:15AM EST (link)Al Gore is hoarding them.
What? No golf courses in Nebraska? nt
mschmitt (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:21AM EST (link)usque ad finem
Nelson and his kind make me sick.
deevee Thursday, January 14th at 10:17AM EST (link)It is personal! It is my Constitution, my private property and my hard earned money.
Jerks!
Sounds like these folks were pretty civil ...
joayn (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:34AM EST (link)… they let them finish their meal before the fireworks started. I mean, really, who here would have let him eat in peace? Definitely not me. I would have been thrown out or arrested – definitely worth it.
I have always thought during this whole health care debacle, “Where do these guys think they’re going to live after they do this?”
Ben Nelson has become the poster boy of arrogance and corruption. He will never be able to live in peace in Nebraska, whichever way he votes on health care.
America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte
Not to worry...Nelson will find a home on K Street nt
AceInTX (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:42AM EST (link)Send these guys to any country in Europe
joayn (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:10AM EST (link)under the EU – England’s got it pretty bad, send him there. Pretty logical, actually. Send them all back to red coat country.
America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte
"... and I draw the line at letting a family enjoy a dinner out without fear of being run out of a restaurant."
joayn (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 10:54AM EST (link)Sounds like the folks in that restaurant drew that line also.
America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte
I think Nelson should be left alone
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:05AM EST (link)as soon as he begins delivering pizzas.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
55555 nt
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:13AM EST (link)Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Knuck'l Samich's---On The Menu
blugrass Thursday, January 14th at 11:12AM EST (link)Maybe the next EATERY will have a better menu ! !
Maybe Billboards in the cities where all these traitors live telling of
our disgust with their approval #s on would help.
A list of restaurants where they could dine on their favorite type of
CROW.
We need to be considerate you know
We should all use this as an example
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 11:12AM EST (link)If I see Claire McCaskill in a public venue, I should walk right up to her and remind her that she swore to uphold the Constitution and she is breaking her pledge. I should tell her that I am going to work against her for voting for a bill that will restrict my health care choices.
If there was ever a time for conservatives to rally around the phrase, “My body, my choice” it is now. No bureaucrat should be allowed to tell us what treatment options our doctor is allowed for us based on anything but safety standards (and I happen to think that it is time to re-think the bureaucracy of the FDA as well.)
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
From: "The Godfather"
oldphart Thursday, January 14th at 12:26PM EST (link)“…don’t let anybody kid you. It’s all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it’s persoanal as hell.”
For all you Nebraskans who stood up for what you believe in,
The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:22PM EST (link)Hip! Hip! Hooray!
If the rest of the country follows your lead, we just might survive this thing.
The restaurant should have refused to serve his family.
Old_Crow (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:45PM EST (link)Stop doing business with these crooked politicians.
Stop accepting their money.
Refuse to do business with them or their families.
Imagine a restaurant saying “sir, you are not welcome here”.
A barber shop that refuses to cut their hair.
Sports teams that refuse their children.
Make it hurt, make their children ask “Dad, why do so many people hate you, what have you done?”
Public ridicule every day.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
Brian,
Dan Perrin (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 6:32PM EST (link)great post.