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The Franken Factor (and Counting to 60)

Juliette Powell | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Franken Senate, Ben Nelson, Doma, Juliette Powell, Al Franken, Senate Races, Joe Biden, Employee Free Choice, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Senate, 33millionpeople, Rahm Emanuel, Energy Reform, Senate Democrats, Health Care, Politics News
Juliette Powell

As harsh as this may seem, maybe it is time for Ted Kennedy to resign from the Senate and let the Democratic Governor of Massachusetts appoint a healthy successor.

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Progressive Groups Buck Obama, Keep Up Health Care Attack Ads

The Plumline | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Hange Campaign Committee, Ben Nelson, White House, Change Congress, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Obama, Mary Landrieu, Democrats, Health Care, Healthcare, Move On, Politics News

President Obama may have issued a private demand that groups allied with the White House stop hammering moderate Democratic Senators with health care ...

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What 60 Democratic Senate Votes Really Means: Welcome to the Age of Ben Nelson

Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Diane Feinstein, Olympia Snowe, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Al Franken, Filibuster, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe lost a huge amount of power yesterday. The battle to get to 60 votes was focused primarily on them, but now the focus will be on moderate Democrats rather than moderate Republicans.

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Health-Care Activists Targeting Centrist Dems

Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Arlen Specter, Ben Nelson, Health Care Policy, Democrats, Health Care, Centrist Democrats, Politics News

In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower against Democratic senators who they...

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NPR Asks Viewers to Identify Health Care Lobbyists, But Misses the Real Point

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Npr, Ben Nelson, Lindsey Graham, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Transparency, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

NPR is diverting attention away from the real problem: centrist Democrats and Congress representatives that receive thousands of dollars from the private health care and insurance industries.

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Ryan Grim

Landrieu To Get The Nelson Treatment From Health Care Reformers

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Landrieu Health Care Reform, Mary Landrieu Health Care, Mary Landrieu Ben Nelson, Politics News

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) took quite the political heckling in Nebraska the past few weeks. Both he and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) have come under fire...

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Sam Stein

Key Centrists Rally Around Conrad's Co-op Plan For Health Care (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: State of the Union, Susan Collins, Conrad Co-Ops, Co-Ops Coverage, Kent Conrad, Public Plan, Health Care Coverage, Ben Nelson, Nelson Health Care, Video, Politics News

Two centrist Senators who will play vital roles in the health care debate, said on Sunday that they were intrigued by the idea of structuring co-opera...

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Some Victory Against Ben Nelson -- Who is Next?

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, John Conyers, Ben Nelson, Special Interests, Lawrence Lessig, Change Congress, Politics News
Lawrence Lessig

Ben Nelson probably hates us right now -- or at least me. But that's OK, it was worth it. Here's what happened.

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Destruction Of Health Care Reform: Another Sequel

Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Bill Clinton Health Care, Ben Nelson, American Medical Association, Special Interests, Mary Landrieu, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

Witnessing the recent blaze of right-wing propaganda on a public health care option has felt like watching a scene in a scary movie where the killer is creeping up on his victim with a knife.

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Conservatives: "Public Health Care Option Is The Best, But You Can't Have It"

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Ben Nelson, Mitch McConnell, Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
Eric Schmeltzer

The Republican leader not only admits that the government can offer a better health insurance option than private industry, but that the principles of competition will go out the window.

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Jeff Muskus

House Dems Want Hearings On Detainee Photos Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Interrogation Photos, Ben Nelson, Torture Photos, Detainee Photos, Joseph Lieberman, Barney Frank, Foia, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Troop Supplement, Lieberman-Graham, Politics News

House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...

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Sam Stein

Ben Nelson Says He Won't Filibuster Public Health Care Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nebraska Progressives, Filibuster Plan, Health Care Filibuster, Nelson Public Plan, Public Plan, Ben Nelson, Nelson Health Insurance, Nelson Coverage Public, Politics News

Senator Ben Nelson, one of the key figures in the health care reform fight, has told a local official in his state that he could support cloture on a ...

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Ryan Grim

Nelson Clarifies Position On Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Public Option, Ben Nelson, Nelson Single Payer, Nelson on Health Care, Ben Nelson Health Care, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Nelson Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) called the Huffington Post on Wednesday, following our latest story about his stance on a public health care option, to clari...

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Ryan Grim

Nelson Again Open To Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Care, Ben Nelson, Baucus Health Care, Ben Nelson Health Care, Politics News

On Tuesday, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said that he is open to a public health insurance option as long as it doesn't undermine existing private insuran...

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DC's Got It Wrong with Nelson (and Other Red States)

Jane Fleming Kleeb | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Nelson, Senator Nelson, Nebraska, Healthcare Reform, Nelson Health Care, Healthcare, Nebraska Healthcare, Politics News
Jane Fleming Kleeb

If DC groups stop villainizing Nelson and focus on the real obstacles of reform, they will not only move healthcare forward, they will build up the Democrats for long-term change in Nebraska.

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Ryan Grim

Nelson Now Open To Public Health Care, Baucus Will Fight For It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, Health Care, Politics News

The push to include a public health care option as part of a system-wide overhaul benefited from two major boosts Wednesday. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)...

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Left is the New Center

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Gop, Obama and the Left, Ben Nelson, Conservatives Supreme Court, Filibuster, Gop Supreme Court, Scotus, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Nancy L. Cohen

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it looks as if the Left's much derided cultural liberalism is the key to cementing the Democrats' majority status for the coming years.

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Who Needs Republicans With Democrats Like This

Norman Lear | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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Norman Lear

Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, might vote to join a Republican filibuster if President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court is an activist judge.

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Sam Stein

Nelson Open To Filibustering Obama Court Nominee (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Nelson, Obama Filibuster, Nelson Filibuster, Obama Nominees, Obama Supreme Court, Nelson Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Politics News

President Obama said on Saturday that a Supreme Court nominee is coming soon, but Republicans in the Senate have spent weeks working to frame the type...

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Sam Stein

Ben Nelson Tougher On Obama's Nominees Than Bush's

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Ben Nelson's opposition to President Obama's choice to head the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel appears to be the key obstacle to her ...

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Ryan Grim

Ben Nelson All Alone In Quest To Block Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Ben Nelson announced at the beginning of this month that he opposed the creation of a public health care plan that people would have the option t...

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Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

Specter, Key "Centrist" Dems Open To Public Health Care Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Schumer, Public Health Plan, Ben Nelson, Democrats, Politics News

Progressive health care reform advocates got a major boost in their efforts to secure a public plan for insurance coverage when newly minted Democrat ...

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Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act

Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Diane Feinstein, Ben Nelson George McGovern, Mark Pryor, Rick Berman, Tom Harkin, Penny Pritzger, Afl-Cio, Michael Bennet, Jim Webb, Astroturf, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.

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Ryan Grim

Schumer Puts Health Care Ball In Nelson's Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Health Care Reform, Ben Nelson, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) dealt a blow to health care reform last week when he said that any overhaul that involved the creation of a public plan that ...

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Ryan Grim

Ben Nelson Plans To Oppose Public Health Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Ben Nelson, Politics News

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Friday that he will oppose legislation that would give people the option of a public health insurance plan. The move put...

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