1.0 link 42303 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melinda-henneberger/sen-nelson-well-take-up-t_b_42303.html At a breakfast for Nebraskans visiting Capitol Hill this morning, lawmakers cheered the high price of corn, which is up around $4 a bushel, wished their state a happy birthday -- it will be 140 tomorrow -- and were only slightly less genial about the war in Iraq.

The glass-half-full conservative Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, who has opposed all but the most non-binding, non-adhesive measures in the debate over how to redeploy, laid out his position in...

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