Is Ben Nelson Ending His Political Career With His Health Care Vote? Sure Looks Like It!!

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Is Ben Nelson Ending His Political Career With His Health Care Vote? Sure Looks Like It!!

Written By : John Hawkins

When “Abortion bill” Ben Nelson publicly took a bribe to throw pro-lifers under a bridge on health care, he may have taken a fatal hit to his political career in Nebraska. These numbers from Rasmussen are just stunning:

1) 2012 Nebraska Senate Race
Dave Heineman (R) 61%
Ben Nelson (D) 30%
Some other candidate 5%
Not sure 4%

2) Before voting to approve the Senate version of health care reform, Senator Nelson made a deal on Medicaid payments for Nebraska. Do you approve or disapprove of the deal Nelson made on Medicaid for Nebraska in exchange for voting for the health bill?

17% Approve
62% Disapprove
22% Not sure

3) What if Senator Ben Nelson voted against the current healthcare reform legislation being considered by Congress and prevented it from becoming law. If the 2012 election for United States Senate were held today would you vote for Republican Dave Heineman or Democrat Ben Nelson?

47% Heineman
37% Nelson
10% Some other candidate
7% Not sure

Note that Nelson is taking a 21 point hit for his health care vote. Let me repeat that: he’s taking a 21 point hit. Those are terrifying numbers, not just for Nelson, but for every “Blue Dog” Democrat in Congress who’s up for reelection in a “red area” in 2010. These Democrats can keep their jobs or they can vote to destroy America’s health care system with Obamacare, but chances are, there are very few of them who will be able to do both.

Mike_M

The question here isn’t whether Democrats are hurting their chances for reelection, it should be why are they doing it anyways when the outcome couldn’t be more clear?

The list of “retiring” Democrats is growing at a staggering pace, and poll numbers for nearly every Democrat up for reelection are grim. Even the Dems internal spin is preparing for a bloodbath in the House.

So why has a party that has practiced finger-in-the-wind politics for decades suddenly committed to passing a bill nobody wants and that will end a large number of their own careers?

Power and money at the expense of the people. They know this bill is a one-way street that will kill freedom and consolidate huge amounts of power in the government. These guys will all wind up back in power anyways, if not as an elected leader then as a bureaucrat. This bill is an uprising by the “elite” against the people and their actions are evidence enough that they fully intend this bill to severely compromise democracy in this country.

We can’t wait until 2010. We need to start recall efforts against these crooks right now. They have admitted that they no longer have any interest in representing their constituients and as such should immediately be removed form power.
CoolCzech

I certainly plan to donate money to this so-and -so’s opponent, to make him pay bitterly for what he did to our country.
tblrk2006

They have admitted that they no longer have any interest in representing their constituients and as such should immediately be removed form power.
Posted by Mike_M
2009-12-30 09:17:27

Well said. Id like to see them hung.
Mike_M

“Well said. Id like to see them hung.”

Actually I’d prefer to have them sentenced to involuntary servitude per the XIII Amendment. They can work in their chosen profession with all earnings going directly to pay off the national debt, and report to prison at the end of the work day.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

He’s got 3 years to rebuild his image and get reelected, and the GOP has to offer someone valid as opposition to the man. I would love to see the anger and frustration with the Democratic party turn into a lot of congressmen being hurled from their jobs, but I’m skeptical that when the time comes it will actually happen – or be allowed to happen.

John Murtha is roundly despised by just about everyone, and he went so far as to vocally and loudly abuse and insult his own voters. He was behind in polling. Then he managed to somehow win when election day came. Which is worse to consider:

1) The system was gamed by fraud ensuring a victory against the will of the voters in Pennsylvania
2) The voters were so stupid and easily controlled that they voted for this turd anyway
MediumHeadBoy

Hmmm, hard to say, since Democrats are all about the vote fraud but on the other hand they’re stupid too. Could be either one, or both!