Lou Dobbs: "Democrat Ben Nelson Will Vote to Confirm Alito"

[leftchick]

DLC | New Dem Of The Week | June 1, 2005

New Dem of the Week: Ben Nelson
U.S. Senator, Nebraska

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=103&subid=111&contentid=253373



...What a shock I tell ya. :grr:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Is it possible to excommunicate somebody from a political party?

This stooge has got to go, along with Lieberman. Set them adrift on an ice floe or something; just make 'em go away.

[leftchick]

4. there are unfortunately a lot of these creatures

sadly I believe it is too late to save them. And us. :(

[More Than A Feeling]

5. You have another Democrat who can win that Nebraskan senate seat? nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. What difference would it make if he's replaced by a Republican

since he normally votes with them anyhow?

[QC]

17. Having a majority makes all the difference in the world.

It means that you appoint all committee chairs and majority members, have subpoena power, set the legislative calendar, etc. As awful as Nelson and others like him are in some ways, they do vote for our leadership candidates.

[Bill McBlueState]

37. it's annoying that people don't seem to understand this n/t

[mattclearing]

35. Because he votes for Reid for Majority leader.

It's the only reason to give Dems like this the benefit of the doubt.

[leftchick]

7. um. what difference does it make when they vote like this

"in the center"! :banghead:

[More Than A Feeling]

10. *shrug* he has to be better than Republicans on something

otherwise, he'd call himself a Republican. He'd probably have a lot easier time of re-election if he did.

[leftchick]

15. right now nothing else but this vote matters

and he is voting repuke.

[Freddie Stubbs]

31. How about who he supports for Majority Leader?

Who will a Republican support?

[cali]

9. No kidding.

How do you explain to people like many posting on this thread that Nebraska is blood red? We need Nelson, and he's up for re-election this year. If we want to block far right judges throughout the federal bench we need to, at the very least, narrow the repub majority in the Senate. Hopefully, we can gain the majority there. One thing's for sure, we can't afford to loose this seat to a repub. Why is that so hard to understand?

[rpannier]

19. While I agree on other Dems...this guy is a completely different story

Nelson scored an 14 on the 50 most critical votes last year. Which means he voted with the Republicans on ctitical issues 86% of the time. His Republican counterpart voted 84% of the time. And so Ben's a Dem how again? You are measured on how you vote on critical issues. On critical issues, he's a bust. You have zero Republican senators who score less than 50% on critical issues, which means all of their Senators close ranks on almost all key issues.
Rhode Island is true blue, yet their Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee votes with his party. The Nebraska is blood red arguement doesn't fly. If he doesn't believe in his votes then he's pandering. Which means he has no character.

[iconoclastNYC]

22. Exactly....how Red is Santorum's seat?

Oh it's not, it's BLUE. That doesn't stop Santorum from being a right-wing crazy.

Ben Nelson, Liberman, Landrieu are on notice. Represent the party that put you in office, or feel the wrath of the people's candidate in your primary.

No more business as usual.

[cali]

23. Here's how he's a dem

If he retains his seat (and there's no other dem with even a remote possibility of winning there), and we can pick up 6 other seats, we take back the Senate. That is a big deal. RI is a different story. Chafee is the son of a revered RI figure, and talks like a liberal. I'd like to boot LIncoln and hold onto Nelson so we can take back the damn Senate.

[QC]

26. There you go again, dragging common sense into everything!

;-)

[rpannier]

29. And he'll continue voting with the Republicans

and undermine the leadership with his pro-puke politics. And all anyone will say is...he's from Nebraska.
Which, as someone pointed out, rowing against the tide of the state doesn't prevent Santorum, Specter, or Coleman (MN) from supporting their party, and voting against bills the majority of their state favors, and voting for bills their state doesn't favor.
But, that's always the difference between Dems and pukes, I guess. When pukes like Specter, Santorum and Coleman back their party on crucial votes it shows leadership, independence and courage. Our guys can't do that because they might lose their seat.

[the observationist]

11. NOPE.

[iconoclastNYC]

21. We can find one.

We found a real democrat to run against Lieberman in CT and we can do the same in any state. And we will.

The DLC is on notice....we're taking our party back.

[More Than A Feeling]

28. Connecticut v. Nebraska

Big difference.

[iconoclastNYC]

30. Really? You don't say.

Are you telling me there aren't better Democrats in NE then Bill Nelson?

If the Republicans can get right-wing wackos elected in Blue and swing state states (Santorum is but one example)then we can get a real progressive elected in NE.

[More Than A Feeling]

36. There are no better democrats who happen to already be incumbent senators

Lieberman deserves his primary challenge because he gets a lot of national attention when he undermines Dems, but Nelson, as far as I know, is by no means as bad at bashing his fellow Dems.

[Pam-Moby]

2. Hubby just called his office.

He told the guy who answered that he maybe taken out of the dem party and put a real dem in his place.

[stevietheman]

3. Ben Nelson, Traitor. n/t

n/t

[annabanana]

8. He's on my list for calls, faxes and emails tomorrow

and the day after... and the day after.

[xchrom]

12. is that republican hair -- or a republican toupee?

:mad:

[ananda]

13. FILIBUSTER!

If Dems don't filibuster, that will just confirm that
there is only one party in this country... the
neofascist business party.

Sue

[xchrom]

16. oh i see -- filihair.

[leftchick]

20. you are right! He has repuke helmut hair!

dead giveaway. That and being a DLCer. :grr:

[rpannier]

14. Not a surprise

He's puke using a D before the state (D-NE)

[datadiva]

18. What a surprise

I just emailed him and told him if he likes Alito so much why doesn't he just go join his republican buddies and re-register. I just get so blasted irritated at these fake democrats!

[0007]

24. Argh! throw this piece of shit away.

[leftchick]

25. him and the rest of them

:puke:

[acmavm]

27. Of course he will, the weasel bastard. NO MATTER what, he's gonna

kiss bush**s ass (or plant his lips somewhere on his anatomy).

That's why it's so depressing to even contact the guy. I have a stack of crappy letters whining about how HE FEELS he should do this, HE FEELS he should do that.

Not one damn word EVER about doing what they people who put his worthless ass in office want him to do.

[stepnw1f]

32. Only Need 41 Votes for Fillibuster

But damnit!!!! We should all hound this guy and then get him replaced, ASAP!

[nonews]

33. Items that we can win...

I am convinced that one of the key ways to beat the RePubs is at the scandal issue. These appointments and other things that the majority (now the Rpubs) have control over are a waste of time and energy. Focus on something that we can win.

[lonestarnot]

34. Ben Nelson approves of a unilateral executive branch and believes in

destroying the balance of power, he also believes in trashing the constitution. Ben Nelson you are Unamerican with a capital U!