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Ben Nelson Threatens “Outside Special Interest Groups”
Considering how beholden Sen. Ben Nelson is to health insurance industry interests in his home state, he’s awfully touchy about criticism from liberal advocacy groups:
A couple of weeks ago, Sen. Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska and a handful of centrist and center-right allies insisted that the Senate not vote on health care reform before the chamber’s August recess. Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) took out an ad in Nebraska criticizing Nelson’s move.
Yesterday, the senator’s office suggested the criticism might lead Nelson to help kill health care reform altogether.
2 Responses to “Ben Nelson Threatens “Outside Special Interest Groups””
The Dems' rushing since the election to pass bad legislation has led to their outdoing themselves with the health care initiative, which is starting to flirt with being a fiasco currently given how self-destructive the Dems have been — to the point where even some _Democrats_ have intelligent objections to the worst about the legislation about about the most stupid liberal special interests who stupidly still demand it, too quickly. The Dems overreached to the point of fracture as well as failure; only idiots refuse to see this.
Given that Senator Nelson has no interest in meaningful health care reform becoming law, that's not much of a threat.