You can watch Ben Nelson’s press conference from this morning here:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2009/12/ben-nelson-saves-health-care-reform-in.html

He held out, then he sold out.

Lots of goodies for the State of Nebraska at the expense of the rest of the country.

Whoring himself worse than Mary did. For all his talk about fed funds for abortions, well, its in there.

I wonder what the rest of the democrat senators think when Mary, Ben, Harry, Tom and Bill put in extra for their own states at the expense of the others. I still have hope that Jim Webb will be a man of principle, or at least, demand that Virginians get the same deal as Nebraska got. If Ben and Mary can whore themselves, why not the rest of them.

Even Willie Brown said: “At this point, it looks like the biggest winners when a bill finally does pass are going to be the insurance companies. They’ll be getting millions of new customers – at government expense.” Yet those who mentioned that were viscously shouted down here as racist a teabaggers.

What’s most pathetic is that while we on the left are pushing for improvements in the bill, the loonie right only sees Nelson as selling out. You don’t see that your own leaders have no interest in improving the current system. They’re only concerned about getting back the majority. This won’t happen because while the left is pissed that this bill sucks so much, we’re still never going to vote for Republicans. The reason this bill sucks is because of people like Nelson, Lieberman, Landrieu and Lincoln. These are people who seem to have more in common with Republicans but, won’t join their party because they know it’s a sinking ship with no power at all right now except to stall the inevitable. They can’t stop this bill and should stop lying to their idiot flock. No, the sooner the Dems are able to fix this bill, the better off we’ll all be. We’re not as interested in keeping the majority as the Republicans are. We’re really more interested in seeing competition for an industry that has brought us to where we are. Ranked 37th in developed countries who provide affordable healthcare for their citizens. They don’t see the health of their people as a commodity. The next time the right wing mentions American Exceptionalism, think about that and how we’re practically owned by China and how that came to be!

By the way, any of you who were called racists on this site for opposing healthcare need look no further than the gun toteing, morons and teabaggers with racists signs at those townhalls in August.. I’m not sure how there could have been name calling over this bill because the public option was still in all but the Senate’s bill. Were people on this site against the bill when it had the public option in it? Because now that it doesn’t, it sounds like the reason that many now hate this bill is because they’ve been made aware by us Liberals that it no longer reflects what is needed. It’s odd because I’m still not hearing any mention of the fact that it’s a give away to the insurance industry from Republicans. That argument was something we’ve been pointing out since the public option began to be threatened. Again, we’re not concerned with Republicans because they have no power thanks to us. Now, we’ve turned our attention to some of the clowns in our party who are now whoring themselves for the insurance industry. Their obstruction will have consequences. Just look at how Blanche Lincoln is polling in her own state for her duplicity. She’s loosing to both Dems and Republicans and it’s because of her position on the public option. It’s directly tied. Bye Bye Blanche! Your own state is rejecting you right now!

Three additions to the list of name-calling from the left that I have compiled: “loonie right, “idiot flock,” and “guntoteing, morons and teabaggers.” As to the third, that should be “gun-toting.” And someone “toting” a gun in Arizona was a leftist, not a conservative. No comma should have been placed after “guntoteing,” since it was intended to define the following nouns. Moron is unprovable. I do not think much of what people on the left think and advocate on anything related to government, politics, or some cultural issues, but no moron would advocate as they do, just as no moron would be troubled to take part in a political demonstration, out of anger with governmental malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance. I believe “teabaggers” refers to some sexual practice with which some on the left may be familiar, but i doubt that as much as one demonstrator did.

A crossword puzzle answer in the New York Times of Sunday, 6 December had “liberal-minded” as the answer to a clue about someone tolerant of others’ views. That is demonstrably false. Roxsteady’s insults demonstrate the falseness. Why are so many liberals so unaware of their faults? Why do not see that they have come to resemble others who have supported government power to subjugate private citizens and tell them what they can and cannot do and say?

The Democrats’ schemes to ruin health care in this country include carving billions out of Medicare coverage. Either they will not do that, out of fear of having a block of votes from people aged 65 and more go to Republicans in elections, and thus force higher taxes to pay for their venture, or they will do that, and people like me will be denied needed medical care. I am 75 years old and have several serious cardiac problems; I was pulled out of an H1N1 vaccine line because I was older than 64, a likely foretaste of what the Democrats will do. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a member of this Administration, has called for a reduction in “chances” for care among the elderly. Did his thinking influence the CDC? One has to ask that question.

The President railed yesterday about companies “arbitrarily” raising prices, though their costs surely will bloat, because of government diktat, but has no problem with people paying taxes four years before an alleged benefit will be provided. Yet he has no problem with Democrats front-loading financing for four years in anticipation of increased costs. One wonders whether anyone else will see the unreason in his argument.

Perhaps some on the left may have good intentions, wanting to provide and finance care for many who currently are ill-served. But good intentions do not justify bad methods: a good end does not justify bad means. The Democrats have entered the china shop and seek to fix chipped pieces with hammers and clubs.

It’s clear Obama and DEMS have simply joined the GOP in becoming corporate tools, serving the interests of Goldman Sachs and a few others, with near complete disregard for the public interest.Explains why the DEMS never even tried to be an opposition party when Bush was in power. Face it, we are all debt slaves to private interests in the GOP/DEM Plutocracy.
ginko biloba

I should have written that “guntoteing” was intended to modify the following nouns, though define’s close.

Ginko [should be ginkgo] provides a fascinating account. However, it is otherworldly, i.e., ginko biloba described a reality other than the one that Americans have had to deal with and presently have to confront. E.g., when George W. Bush was President, Democrats strongly opposed his attempt to improve the wealth of Social Security’s contributors by allowing contributors to devote a portion of their contributions to equity investments. The proposal was never effectively argued, a major defect of Mr. Bush’s initiatives, domestic and foreign, nor did anyone effectively describe rules preventing people from investing in riskier equity packages.

Strenuous Democrat objections to the free market and private enterprise further prevented Republican market-oriented reforms in the provision and financing of health care. Again, however, Mr. Bush and other Republicans ought to have articulated their proposals and let the Democrats be tied to oppressive, inefficient, and costly government solutions, akin to the appalling monstrosity that ignorant fanatics like President Obama hail. The legislation will, among other bad results, increase the number of government workers and thereby boost slavish pro-Democrat vote totals. Why no one mentions that adverse result escapes this writer’s understanding.

Democrats demonstrate a total disregard for the public interest, if by public one means the citizens and residents of the United States of America. Perhaps some writers mistake pubic for public; Democrats do support the pubic interests of Americans.

People are not ready to take up arms against each other, but in my 75 years, I have never seen the political parties further apart.