Nelson Finally Gets Some Love From Nebraskans

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has taken it on the chin for his vote in favor of health care reform and the deal he secured for Medicaid funding for Nebraska in the process. Public opinion polls at home show the longtime Democrat getting only 30 percent of the hypothetical vote if an election was held today. Just 17 percent of Nebraskans, according to a Rasmussen Poll, said they favored the sweetheart deal that Nelson secured for the state.

On Thursday, however, Nelson finally got a bit of positive feedback. A small business owner named Rick Poore -- who seems to have some sort of affiliation with the union SEIU -- took out an advertisement in Nelson's hometown paper, the McCook Gazette, applauding the senator for pushing reform forward. In a letter addressed to Nelson, he writes:

Thanks for trying to get healthcare reform done. I know it's tough but remember, Medicare didn't happen overnight and rural Nebraska has so much to gain by making coverage more affordable and care more accessible.

It sure would be nice if Nebraska's Republican delegation in Washington got off their butts and did something to help you get things done for us regular folk. I swear, it seems to me they would vote against a cure for cancer if it meant denying Obama a w in the win column

Kind of short sighted if you ask me. We need solutions to this problem, not roadblocks.

Anyway, take care and keep up the hard work Ben. We used the be a country of big ideas, we can be that country again with your help.

nelsonad -

Poore is a minority voice within the state. The heat Nelson has taken so far for his support for health care has compelled him to all but formally disavow his vote. The senator has sought to have the Medicaid deal removed from the legislative language, pledged to oppose the use of reconciliation to pass additional legislative changes and insisted that he would have filibustered the bill anyway had it come back to the Senate after conference committee.

Comments

[LibVikingWarrior]

07:01 AM on 01/29/2010

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[ilse]

04:51 PM on 01/28/2010

Anyone read the article about Mary Landrieu being upset with president Obama for not talking more about healthcare­? She blames the president for healthcare not passing instead of herself, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson. These blue dogs stoop really low. These three foght every step of the way to make sure healthcare didn't pass and now want to blame the president. Landrieu and Lincoln also support the dirty air act.

[up2uamerica]

04:47 PM on 01/28/2010

Nelson deserves NO LOVE, he has distorted and corrupted the bill and is trying to repeal a womens RIGHT to choose! Nelson is a turncoat dem and needs to ne run out of town!!! HE IS A TRADER LIKE JOE LIEBERMAN!

[dannyluv]

03:44 PM on 01/28/2010

Sorry Ben, our attention span is longer than you had hoped. You attempted to kill Healthcare and now you want to take credit for ?Trying to HELP Healthcare­??????
Sorry, but your talkin' cr@zy

[vgirl1]

03:26 PM on 01/28/2010

I support healthcare reform by the Dems.

I do not support Nelson or his actions in the entire scenario of trying to get this done.

I think most Nebraskans are against his mediocre support and actions as well, seeing him as part of the obstructio­nist Repugnant party of NO.

[Icantbelieveher]

03:25 PM on 01/28/2010

Nelson's not taking heat for supporting health care -- he's getting heat for killing the public option, which the majority of his state supported!

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

04:31 PM on 01/28/2010

Am so sick hearing how middle america isn't like the coasts on either side of the states. People are people. I don't care where you live. In this day and age techology is every and people have access to it. I live in a small rural country area in a southern town and I am a social democratic­. The democratic­s and the president didn't sell the healthcare right. The republican­s noise machine got ahead of spreading the lies. They better pass this bill because it took to much time for nothing to happen. The republican­s don't want to participat­e. Lets get 51 votes and be done with it. I am sure they can get 51 in the senate.

[bob876]

02:51 PM on 01/28/2010

How can anyone defend this guy. Ben Nelson along with the Senators listed below have helped the Republican­s stall and water down this bill of real reform. Ben Nelson is on the take from the Insurance Industry and has only their interest in mind rather then the people who elected him and his responsibi­lity as a member of the Senate the interest of the Country. We need to stop re-electin­g the following Senators if we want things to change in Washington­.
1. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas in 2010
2. Evan Bayh of Indiana in 2010
3. Ben Nelson of Nebraska in 2012
4. Kent Conrad of North Dakota in 2012
5. Joe Lieberman of Connecticu­t in 2012
6. Bill Nelson of Florida in 2012
7. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana in 2014
8. Max Baucus of Montana in 2014

[FoonTheElder]

02:50 PM on 01/28/2010

The SEIU might like what Nelson does, but few people in Nebraska on the left and right do.

All he managed to do was delay and mess up health care reform so he could get the last few dollars for all of his friends in the insurance business.

Thanks for nothing Ben.

[wendynyc]

02:29 PM on 01/28/2010

Well he helped the democrats lose the Massachuss­etts Senate seat!1

[RedStateCenterLeft]

02:17 PM on 01/28/2010

If I had the bucks, I'd buy an ad or two in the local papers to give our GOP congressme­n and senators a sack of dead mice.

[jeanwny]

02:28 PM on 01/28/2010

Sometimes love means having to say you are sorry Ben

[Lairs]

02:09 PM on 01/28/2010

I just don't think the rest of US should pay for Nebraska. Just wrong.

[PATina]

02:06 PM on 01/28/2010

The senator has sought to have the Medicaid deal removed from the legislativ­e language, pledged to oppose the use of reconcilia­tion to pass additional legislativ­e changes and insisted that he would have filibuster­ed the bill anyway had it come back to the Senate after conference committee.

Wow. Gotta love that Dem party... hahahahaha My big toe nail has more conviction than these boogers.

[LeeCalif]

01:49 PM on 01/28/2010

Too bad, Rick doesn't seem to realize Nelson is a former Insurance executive and won't do anything to threaten Insurance Industrial Complex profits.

[sabela]

01:48 PM on 01/28/2010

Hey that guy stole my line. I have been saying that for a year now. If Obama found the cure for cancer, the republican­s would vote against the funding for it.