(D-NE)

Ben Nelson represents Nebraska, not PA!

What in the world does NARAL have to do with the OLC???? Ask Nelson to explain that!

So if Johnson eats meat and Nelson were a vegetarian, would he feel compeled to vote against her then, too?

This makes NO sense.

He only opposes obstructionism when he's not obstructing. Makes sense to me. I don't like that which I'm not doing, I like it when I'm doing it.

By this same logic, Dems have the "right to reject any person for office if they worked for a "pro life" group, or went to a pro-life college. Fair is fair.

Who will his primary challenger be and how soon can I start writing checks? Enough of this clown. He's all about making himself look conservative and almost never does anything positive to support the DEMOCRATIC PARTY's agenda.

As one of millions around the country who has helped put Democrats in the majority, I'm outraged at these "foot on the brake" wimpy Democrats who are stuck in 1988 and always trying to please the right wing.

Democrats did NOT get into the majority by following Ben Nelson's Republican-light policies and politics.

Time for a little discipline for the right wing of the Dem Party.

Nelson is essentially going against the provision of the constitution prohibiting a religious test for holding public office since the abortion debate is in large part a religious issue. The same argument could be made in similar opposition to strong opponents of abortion for their beliefs. This provision of the Constitution has little political meaning as there has been a defacto test of religious belief for holding elected office in this country. I would agree with the prior poster that the tyranny of a representative minority needs to go by ending the filibuster. Frankly I think Federalism puts up behind the rest of the world, but that's an argument for another day. Nelson's state of Nebraska has an officially non-partisan unicameral legislature and it seems to me that unicameralism on a state level is something that more states need to look at as there is no real need for two houses since states don't have a federal system.

As a Nebraskan, I'm especially furious with Ben Nelson. He makes me angrier every time he opens his mouth. I've never liked him, but he just gets worse and worse.

So far, I've held my nose and voted for him, figuring that an "official" Republican would be worse, but I'm not so sure that I can continue to do that. I'd like to see a primary challenge, even though it would have no chance at all (even in the primary, let alone the general election).

In general, Democratic candidates for statewide elections in Nebraska tend to be tokens, since they have such a poor chance of winning. And Democrats don't win lesser elections, so they don't get name recognition. Even these days, Nebraska is solidly Republican. Hard to believe after eight years of Bush, isn't it?

Just called his office. My statement to one of his aides was that I was concerned about his recent statements concerning the OLC appointment Johnson. I went on to say that I understand that Sen nelson comes from a purple state but had not heard Sen Nelson raise any objections while in the Sen or in committee to any of Bush's appointee's to similar posts. His aide said that Bush had not appointed anybody that had worked for a pro-choice group (this comment got under my skin). So my reply was that Sen Nelson did not object to any Bush appointees who had affiliations with pro-life groups or pro-life rhetoric in their past. If that is the case then it would seem that Sen Nelson is applying some sort of moral and political test to the OLC Johnson pick. I told his aide that it was high time the US turned back to its roots which is that the US is a nation of laws and that nothing in OLC Johnson's background should be objectionable based on those laws.

Interesting how Ben Nelson had no problem hiring a pollster, Harrison Hickman, for his 2000 campaign who at the time had been NARAL's pollster for more than a decade. He hired Hickman again in 2006.

All votes considered, Joe Lieberman is by far the better Democrat than Nelson. Nelson may be the worst Democrat in the Senate.

Wait a minute here. Johnson worked in support of legal activities and she wants to work for the OLC?? This is all wrong. They only support il-legal activities so she's out.

I just called Collins' office. There's no decision yet made on whether she's voting for cloture. The lady who I spoke to, sounded like she was leaning towards it though.

Obama's people are not doing their jobs very well. They have allowed asshole DINO's like Nelson to have far too much power. They should have made it clear to them that this sort of blackmail would not be tolerated.

Just in from huffpo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/24/obama-to-nelson-were-goin_n_191201.html