Nelson has to go away! Politics for him blows like the wind...every which way! I don't accept that it's ok cause sometimes he votes our way crap...people need to work hard to get a replacement that will work hard and go along with the party's and country's agenda! Nelson morals are non-existent!

I called Nelson's office earlier. I told that it is unethical for one lawyer to question another lawyers clients. If he wants to talk about someone's ideological positions--fine. But that is not what he is doing. The job is not political or ideological. It requires legal judgment, not political posturing. But, no matter what else is going on, no one should ever question specific clients for whom a lawyer might have worked. We don't have a case of a Neo-Nazi consiglieri, where someone's only job is to bail out skinheads. Nor are we talking about someone who spent his/her entire professional life working for a single client, e.g., a very large corporation. But even in those cases, the issue would be diversity of experience, not the specific clients. Should we question someone's fitness for public office if he clients as a public defender are indigent drug addicts, thieves and murderers?

Go to Nelson's website in the Senate and check out how he portrays himself. Ben Nelson, according to his own site, is a Centrist. And what, pray tell, makes him a centrist? Supposedly, it's his willingness to serve as a compromiser with the Bush White House. Apparently, Ben does not understand the meaning of "centrist" and "compromise". Centrist is someone who stands between two extremes--preferably not much closer to one end than to the other. And compromise involves concessions by both sides. What we see instead is that Nelson has consistently sided with the Bushies on most issues, especially judicial nominations. That makes him either a conservative Democrat (and there would be nothing wrong with that if he was only willing to admit it) or a Republican stooge. If Blair was Bush's Poodle, Ben Nelson must have been his pet rat.

As noted in the post, the record on cloture votes is potentially significant. He only voted against cloture in one case. There's also a time or two when he voted for cloture on a Bush nominee and then voted against confirmation.

If he does that here, then fine. Whatever. Yet another bit of Foghorn Leghorn blowhard drama for the rubes back home from Ben Nelson.

If he votes against us on cloture, however, I really don't see what the point of even letting the hypocritical Zell Miller asshat caucus with the Democrats could possibly be.

Nelson is a Republican hiding under the banner of a Democrat. Nelson we are on to you. There should be a real Democrat to run for Nelson's seat in the next election. A wolf in sheep clothing.