Title: Breaking....Senator Nelson Will Vote For Health Care Bill Source:
Gretta URL Source:[None] Published:Dec 16, 2009 Author:A K A Stone Post Date:2009-12-16 22:08:22 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:411 Comments:6
Just saw on Gretta that Nelson will support the Bill. Does that mean it is all over folks? Anyone surprised?
That’s a nice Air Force base your state has there… December 16th, 2009 | Author: Josh Painter
Political arm-twisting is a tactic nearly as old as Capitol Hill itself, but the way the Obama White House plays the game “the Chicago way” makes even the heavy-handed Lyndon Baines Johnson seem to be just a piker. The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb reported Tuesday that Sen. Ben Nelson was subjected to a degree of political thuggery that is rarely seen even inside the Beltway and a reckless disregard for the nation’s security that has become all too common with this administration.
Nebraska Democrat Nelson has been a holdout on the ObamaCare bill because he objects to taxpayer money being used to fund abortions, a part of the bill the White House is determined not to remove from the measure at any cost. So Obama’s gang, a Senate staffer informed Goldfarb, made Nelson an offer he can’t refuse, threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC (Ba
