Nelson Aborts Health Care Bill As Left Also Revolts

Some reports suggest they want to vote for the HC bill on Christmas Eve. Good luck with that. For now, it appears they'll be sticking a fork in it just like any other turkey at Christmas time.

Meanwhile, no less an authority than moron Keif Olbermann is coming out against the bill. Hell, Keif, come all the way out of the closet if you want some air. If anyone gave a damn what you thought, they'd watch your show. Relatively few do. Duh.

Dean is against it, Stern, too. lol Not much of a consensus when you can't keep your own idiot progressives in line. Attaboy Barry, you're doing a heck of a job! ha ha ha All that's missing is an I told'ya so from Hillary. Maybe she'll wait until the 2012 primaries to make her thoughts known.

Given that Teddy K ran against Carter after four years, perhaps it should be seen as an homage to his legacy? Oh wait, that was supposed to be this failing bill. What a fitting epitaph to Kennedy from the guy he endorsed early on to give him some cred, opening the door for him to win the nomination. Poor Teddy, on the wrong side of history, again.

Centrist Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) said Thursday he won't vote to advance the Senate healthcare bill unless it is changed.

Nelson said more stringent restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion must be included in the billl if it is to win his vote.

"If it's not at the point where I think it needs to be with the improvements that I'm pushing -- and they've made a lot of them -- then I will not vote for cloture on the motion to end debate," Nelson said in an interview on KLIN radio in Nebraska.

Comments

[mark l.]

clearly, olbermann is a racist, who wants the president to fail because he is black.

[Ran / Si Vis Pacem]

Hmmm... Mark has a point. The guy is soooo! raaaaacist! He has a show, too? Cool! Which theater?... I'll bring tomatoes.

[Randy Rager]

I believe Olbermann's first name is spelled "Queef". Or "Quiche". I never could keep it straight.

[mark l.]

i hearken back to the angst of the left when limbaugh said he wanted obama to fail, miserably.

in keith's defense: if you hope for failure, without it being characterized as "miserable", you may avoid the racist label. "miserably" just has to be redefined as having racist connotations.

still...
andy stern. kos. olbermann. dean...
they all want obama to fail?

love to see any of them offer a distnction between their desire for failure and limbaugh's.

[john]

Reid seems to be trying for a Christmas eve vote to get a cloture vote on a bill nobody has actually read.

The question is whether Nelson can stand the pressure.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/17/merry-christmas-senate-obamacare-vote-may-come-on-december-24th/

[Pasadena Phil]

Just another day in the life of the man who earlier this year claimed that he can do more than one thing at the same time. His agenda stampede is now at the foot of a cliff. Note to self: look up definitions of "focus" and "prioritize".

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Where is our friend boob with those polls he loves to quote????? How the heck are we to keep up without DaBoob and his proud libtool brother to tell us how much Amerikans love DaObie???

[neomom]

It ain't over yet folks. Nelson still has to stand strong. However, his Governor sent him a lifeline, fig leaf, whatever, to try and help...

http://www.omaha.com/article/20091216/NEWS01/912169982

[mark l.]

"Where is our friend boob with those polls he loves to quote?????"

amen.

I see the poll average is 37.9% in 'favor of'

boring as life is...

I want to hear from the mindless 37.9%. the ones who applaud obama wiping his nose.

I tend to imagine that the aforementioned, by his absense, is not among the 37.9%.

[antioxidant]

He's mandating that people buy insurance but doing nothing to make it affordable. Thus, they could set the rates at $14,000 per month and people would have to buy it. No wonder the insurance companies are getting behind this. Just do Medicare for all, or if that's too much, just pass a two page bill prohibiting discrimination for pre-existing conditions.

[Mark Reynolds]

This is the work of bureaucrats. Passing a bill that does not avail more people but only some and themselves. It will turn into a social uproar if this bill will pass. Obama should reform this bill if he wwants to have a better hold of his presidency and future plans.

[xerocky]

"Just do Medicare for all, or if that's too much, just pass a two page bill prohibiting discrimination for pre-existing conditions."

The second half of that would be fine. Add to that everytime an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, he's treated, arrested, and deported. That will keep them from showing up at all.

[david r]

These are the same boobs that kept stating flatly on TV how the health care bill would have a "robust" public option in hushed tones like they were describing the size of their own. . . (well, you know). I guess the moral here for the electorate is that we really should not put much credence in what these leftist idiots say.

[Mike]

Repubs should offer him a chairmanship in 2010 when Dems take a beating.Only if he switches now and votes it down.

[Maguire]

With the major insurance companies stuffing the back pockets of both the physicians and the politicians, it is astounding that any health care reform may actually happen. We need our "health care" to change as much as we need the regulation in within the insurance industry. According to Eva Mor author of (Making the Golden Years Golden), “The administration of the existing health delivery system is bloated with waste and unnecessary cost. If information was shared by all providers of health services and all insurers by using computerized systems to store all medical records, it would cut costs and reduce errors that would save and improve lives.” http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107
Preventative care is something we need desperately in this country so the real question is going to be, how do we get it? Especially when there are so many back pocket deals being made to benefit the drug companies.