TAKE. HIS. AIR FORCE BASE. AND STEAL HIS CATTLE. “Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson threw a Christmas deadline for passage of health-care legislation into further doubt, rejecting a compromise on abortion and saying he doesn’t see how fellow Democrats can resolve all his objections.” Hmm, it’s almost painfully obvious right now that this has been Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel’s plan all along, to have a health care reform effort collapse and fail just to upset the Netroots and please the corporations. [Bloomberg]
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If there is a level in Mario Galaxy where Wario comes out and fucks US Senators please let me know where that is so I can keep my kids from getting to it.
All Your Base Are Belong To Us….
Where was this asshole at the beginning of the Senate work on this thing?
Being a democratic republic is not all it’s cracked up to be…
Gosh, if only there were an existing amendment that would bar the use of federal funds from paying for abortions, then Ben Nelson could drop this silly charade and we could get some sorry semblance of health insurance reform passed.
no, this is great. now he can take the fall for killing the bill instead of progressives and then we can do RECONCILIATION. i never thought i’d love that word so much.
This won’t play well back in Obamaha.
Can’t we just hurry up and give these shitsacks (Ben, Joe, Blanche, etc.) everything their so-called hearts desire? Then we pass some 1,100-page phantom of vacuity and in January we can move on to having the same set of shitsacks puke all over the jobs, climate, and banking-regulation bills–while B.O. Plenty looks on “disapprovingly” from the sidelines.
NPR did a piece on Nelson this morning, and he was all “Even if the abortion piece is fixed, I still wouldn’t vote for the bill because I have too many other problems with it.” I hate these fuckers.
Why doesn’t this prick just go ahead and resign and take his fancy insurance industry lobbyist cretin job and buy the missus another gold plated dildo already.
Ben Nelson is a fuckwad.
I like the comment by Snowe: “I was advocating using part of January to focus on issues that need attention.” = “I’d like to stall until the insurance companies have a chance to bid for our votes after the holidays.”
Anyone who tries to ground Hair Force One is just fucking with fire!
Apparently, the insurance companies needed a backup to Joe Lieberman.
[re=481591]chaste everywhere[/re]: They should just pass the “Republican Bill” and when people realize how badly they’re screwed Congress can start over again.
TAKE. HIS. AIR FORCE BASE. AND STEAL HIS CATTLE.
You left out “rape his women.”
(But maybe you’ve seen his women?)
Democrats: “I have seen the enemy, and he is us.”
Republicans: “Agreed. He is you.”
[re=481586]proudgrampa[/re]: Being a democratic republic would be great. Our problem is we have 40 senators, who represent about 36 percent of the population, who can stop anything. So, not a real democracy.
Good luck with the fundraising DSCC.
[re=481599]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: The healthcare bill isn’t fully done until it has a capital gains tax cut, repeal of all environmental regulations, and bans gays from federal employment. At that point, they can strip out all of this weasely “insurance” stuff, and America can have true Health Care Reform (TM) that we can all be proud of.
Obstructionist moran.
[re=481587]Godless Liberal[/re]: Edit:
“Gosh, if only there were an existing amendment that would bar the use of federal funds from paying for abortions, then Ben Nelson would have to come up with a new excuse to derail health care and please the health and insurance industries.”
God, isn’t anyone who is this myopically obsessed with abortion unfit to serve? We’ve allowed people to pretend what should be the ultimate “status quo, agree to disagree” issue to be THIS important for too long.
[re=481600]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: …and salt his fields, slaughter his livestock and poison his wells, too.
[re=481603]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: Benevolent dictatorship is the answer!
Why doesn’t Reid tell these assholes that if they don’t like the bill they can vote against it, but if they vote against cloture they’ll be stripped of their seniority? They won’t do the insurance companies any damn good at that point.
One more thing, special to the Republicans. “NO” is not a viable plan. “NO” is not representative democracy. “NO” is not leadership in any form or fashion. I sincerely hope Santa’s naughty sidekick Herpes brings you all a scorching case of infected anal warts for Christmas. You douchebags.
and ‘Nilly nilly’ calls the loft hawk,
Come and be killed.
THere was a guy in my freshman dorm from Nebraska.
We called him, “Nebrasshole.”
[re=481610]user-of-owls[/re]: I’ve been to Nebraska. That would be redundant.
You’re a valuable member of our team, Senator Nelson, and we love you.
But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Democrats again.
[re=481615]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Why doesn’t Reid tell these assholes that if they don’t like the bill they can vote against it, but if they vote against cloture they’ll be stripped of their seniority?
That would require having self respect, which is apparently in very short supply in the Senate.
If I were a woman I would impregnate myself in order to fulfill the small likelihood of being able to abort my fetus into Max Baucus’ mouth.
You know the Republicans are laughing their asses off at the ineptness of the Dems. The Dems can’t do something with 60 seats that the Republicans could do with 50: bring a bill to a vote. Why, again, exactly, did the Dems fight so hard to save the filibuster? It’s not like they ever actually used it. Teh stupid: it hurtz.
It really is a good analogy; Harry Reid is Charlie Brown, all these assholes are Lucy Van Pelt and we, the American People, are the football. Sick of it all.
And read, in a shell,
Death, clear as a buoy’s bell;
All praise of the hawk on fire in hawk-eyed dusk be sung
Those of us in Obamaha are righteously pissed off right now at all of them. Harry Reid can suck it, too, for letting Benny the ‘Do and Droopy Dawg shit all over everything. You should see the moronic commercials they’re running here now, thanking Ben for all his great work in standing up to the Washington liberals.
I hate this place.
And where’s the damn CBO score for this thing anyway? It was supposed to come out by Tuesday.
[re=481622]Mr Blifil[/re]: Uh, it’s Nelson not Baucus, even though there are similarities. Not a nice move DICKFACE.
Hmm, it’s almost painfully obvious right now that this has been Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel’s plan all along, to have a health care reform effort collapse and fail….
I want it to fail. It’s turned into a steaming pile of horse puckey. I no longer think Barack Obama is an honest Negro.
I wish Ben Nelson could get knocked up.
I also wish the White House would grow a pair.
[re=481615]SayItWithWookies[/re]: As much as I like the idea of Lieberman and Nelson et al being faced with some sort of punishment including the moving their offices to the Senate men’s room, the fear is that in doing so, Nelson will turn ever more into a 16 year old girl and decide not to vote with the Dems on anything out of spite, meaning Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins get to run the country. Politically, the only way out of this mess involves talking some of Tiger’s girlfriends into also admitting they had flings with Nelson, Lieberman, or Bayh and then threaten to release photos to TMZ if they ever for a filibuster again.
When his viperish fuse hangs looped with flames under the brand
Wing, and blest shall
Young
Green chickens of the bay and bushes cluck ‘nilly nilly,
Come let us die.’
We grieve as the green birds, never again, leave shingle and elm,
The heron and I:
I young Aesop fabling to the near night by the dingle
Of eels, saint heron hymning in the shell-hung distant
Crystal harbour vale
Where the sea cobbles sail,
And wharves of water where the walls dance and the white cranes
stilt.
(Sorry I just wanted to type something here that wasn’t all dem/proggy bitching and whining.)
Oh no, someone is getting more attention than Joe Lieberman. He’s going to have to do something REALLY jerkish in the next hour to get the spotlight back where it needs to be. On him.
[re=481647]Hooray For Anything[/re]: I’m not sure you’d be able to find a cocktail waitress in this whole country who’d admit to fucking either one of those two-baggers. You’d have to come up with something more credible — like maybe they’re agents of the Mole People who plan to feast on our rotting corpses after we all die from lack of health care.
Very simply, too many democrats are also in thrall to the Corporatocracy.
[re=481642]Mr Blifil[/re]: I’ll pray for twins.
[re=481668]SayItWithWookies[/re]: That’s why I’ve always been a big fan of the idea of slipping Lieberman or Nelson a mickey, hire a bunch of hookers, and then video tape the whole thing. Didn’t the mob do that to JFK? To make sure they really get Lieberman good, they should make sure the hooker eats bacon the entire time.
This is all starting to feel like 1776, except with a whole bunch of little Edward Rutledges. “Okay, Joe, here’s your insurance company guaranteed business…okay, Ben, here’s your ban on abortions…” Next, I suppose Blanche is going to want Johnson & Johnson to have to buy all the cotton for Q-Tips from Helena.
[re=481597]Extemporanus[/re]: By the way, y’all are missing out on some righteous fucking rawk ‘n’ roll right there.
To wit:
“Fucking with fire, I’m coming to rock
Got my rocket on fire and I take what I want
Fucking with fire, loaded and cocked
You never miss it until you’ve begun
with the Hair Force one!”
I have a game on the Wii called Super Smash Brothers. Wario is one of the characters in the game, and one of his weapons is a big stinky fart cloud. Ben Nelson needs to quit stinking up the place with his obstructionist farts.
I will never understand how the hell Ben Nelson reached the conclusion he was a Democrat. It’s like Larry Craig insisting he’s straight or Mark Sanford claiming he’s a family man. Someone needs to check Ben’s voter registration form ’cause I’m sure he checked the wrong box.
I wish stupid was painful.
The one I reflexively hate in all this is Harry Reid, the human amoeba: No backbone, no guts, no brain, no heart, no balls.
But then, the fact that the Democrats stick with this born-to-lose twit goes to the heart of the problem: I think the Democrats PREFER to lose: That way they can keep collecting contributions as the only thing standing between us and a Rethuglican nightmare state, while not really doing anything to alter an economic structure that benefits them personally as much as the brigands they claim to oppose.
I missed where our founding fathers decreed that attention-whoring constitutionally illiterate “moderates” get to be fucking emperor.
Healthcare. Meh. Just like the weather. Everyone is talking about it, nobody is doing anything about it.
I had an appointment with a cardilologist yesterday. Got there a few minutes ahead of schedule, which is customary in a new patient situation. Filled out the new patient paperwork, and sat there. The waiting room was packed, but at least no overflowing colostomy bags this time. 45 minutes later, they called me in. Blood pressure checked, answered some questions, then I got sent back to purgatory where I sat for an even longer time. 2 people just cold left, one had the courtesy to call the front desk (which we could all see from our seats) and cancelled her appointment. Too bad all 3 of these people had their appointments with the other doctor, so I continued to sit. And listened to people complaining about shit they have no knowledge about but have very loud opinions on. Such as health care reform. One lady on Medicare was debating another lady on Medic-aid and both wanted the government to butt out of it. I wisely remained silent. Finally got to see the doc, Prem Kittusamy, short for something. I asked him if he knew my friend Srikanth Balasubramabrian. He asked if he was of the New Delhi Balasubramanians, I replied no, he’s of the Mumbai Balasubramanians. So he didn’t know my friend, but we got along OK until I asked him where I could find a good cheeseburger nearby, and he punched me in the neck. Touchy subject, but at least I had determined his religious affiliation and avoided the awkward Merry Xmas/Happy Eid moment. All in all, I wasted 6.75 hours out of my day for a 15 minute appointment. There is nothing wrong with this US American healthcare delivery system!
There will be no healthcare reform for Christmas because Rahm Emanuel doesn’t believe in Baby Jesus.
Blanche, Mary, Olympia, and Susan MIGHT vote no in January, depending how many Tiffany boxes from Humana and Blue Cross are under their trees. (That’s not sexist. You can’t put hookers under the tree and that’s what the rest of them asked for.)
Surfeit O’Hubris on Harry Reid: “No backbone, no guts, no brain, no heart, no balls.” No reelection, either.
we have better health care system here in sweden because there are no moderate, anti-abortion morons and no politicians talk about jeebus during election campaigns.
[re=481917]inedalo[/re]: If they don’t talk about jeebus and abortion, then what do they talk about? Gay marriage? Flag burning? Monster trucks? I don’t understand.
It doesn’t matter. The whole “reform” is the Obamanation of Desolation. It benefits the insurance crooks and the drug crooks.
If the American people were smart, we’d've gotten the German system back in 1916, when it was first proposed. Instead, everyone thinks “I want health care, but not for THOSE people; THEY don’t deserve it!!”
Obama is from Chicago; doesn’t he know a lot of hard guys with baseball bats and .22 pistols, who know how to hot wire a car so it blows up when it drives by the right McDonalds? That kind of thing? Surely if he doesn’t, he knows people know them? People like Rahm Emmanuel? Even if he has to pardon Blago, make him ambassador to Montenegro, it would be worth it.
This is MF Rahmie’s idea, to ‘bait/switch’ us, and dump ‘healthcare’ forever so that we slaves can continue to PAY for BLOODYISRAEL’s Universal Health Care with On/Gyn coverage complete. The Oreo-cookie does everything his handler tells him to do, he’s bought by the Empire builders who are shoving the PIPELINE from hell down all those poor nation’s throats when they already said they don’t want to build BLOODYISRAEL’s Petroleum Empire.
[re=481615]SayItWithWookies[/re]: “Why doesn’t Reid tell these assholes that if they don’t like the bill they can vote against it, but if they vote against cloture they’ll be stripped of their seniority?”
Beats the hell out of me. I really don’t get it. After health care, we don’t really need these SOB’s, anymore. Hell, we don’t even need them now. As someone else said, it’s amazing that the Dems can’t do with 60 votes what the GOP did with 51 back earlier in the decade. Not amazing as in “wow, surprise” amazing as in “oh my fucking gawd, how can they suck this much?”
Seriously, the Dems could have 70 votes and they’d still be playing the victim card.
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