Sen. Ben Nelson’s inability to see his own immorality
Bookworm on Dec 21 2009 at 9:11 am | Filed under: Abortion
Sen. Ben Nelson is mad. How dare the voters (and, especially, the conservatives) attack him simply for changing his mind on health care:
“This is all orchestrated,” Nelson said Sunday. “It’s so thinly disguised … it’s almost laughable.
Nelson, the lone Democrat in Nebraska’s five-member congressional delegation, told The AP that a high-ranking Republican operative sent out partisan talking points to conservative talk show hosts and columnists and they “almost read it verbatim.
“We have the e-mails that show it,” he said.
Nelson said he was doing what he could to stop the double-digit rise in health care costs, as well as cover those Nebraskans who can’t get coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.
In other words, says Nelson, all he did was hold out until he got a better bargain. But Nelson’s personal feelings aside that is not all he did. Unlike other Senators who complained about costs and public options and hurt to their states, Nelson framed his opposition around one issue: abortion. He was a pro-Life guy, he said, and he wasn’t going to vote for a bill that forced Americans to pay so that other Americans could have an abortion. And then he did exactly that when the price was right.
What Nelson can’t seem to understand, now that he’s lashing back at his critics for failing to see what a great economic decision-maker he is, is that abortion is not about money, it’s about morality. If you tell the voters that you are pro-Life, it means that you believe that, barring countervailing factors (protecting the mother’s life, incest, etc.), you think it is murder to abort a baby. It’s not an inconvenience, it’s not an economic issue, it is a core moral issue: “Thou shalt not murder.”
When Nelson, in return for a bribe, sided with Reid, et al, voters instantly understood that Nelson has either been lying all along about his pro-Life stance or that Nelson is such a deeply weak and corrupt guy that he will sell his values to the highest bidder. Either way, he made a fool of voters. Even pro-Choice voters who are, I’m sure, happy with his decision, should be asking themselves how much value they can get from a guy who is either a liar or easy to bribe.
Anyway, if you’re upset about Nelson, there is something you can do: go here and donate to the opposition.
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A Democrat is simply a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You may think he’s got the goods, but you’d be wrong almost all of the time.
“This is all orchestrated . . .”
I just wish we were that well organized.
Kali, he’s talking about his own backroom deals and redirecting attention by blaming his opponents. Classic Democrat strategy.
I tried to make a contribution at the linked site. It didn’t work.
The “contribute” window will not scroll down far enough to submit the contribution.
There’s nothing unusual about my system configuration.
Again and again, I’ve seen problems like this with Republican-managed sites, in addition to the incompetent and offensive direct-mail pieces which I get by the tens of pounds per month.
There is something very wrong with the management of the Republican party, at all levels.
That’s because the Republican party isn’t held to the voters. There’s no feedback to lay off incompetents. It’s all managed by the Inner Circle.
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I don’tr know about “orchestrated” I was just sitting here at the kitchen table trying to g\figure out how we would survive if he sold out.
I am impressed that he was able to blame his lack of morals on the Republicans and the Republican Governor.
I wonder how many more hours it will take for him to work out how to blame it on Bush, specifically.
I’ve never understood how people that deal with whores are able to get any sleep. Explains all the middle-of-the-night sessions, doesn’t it.
I was able to reach his Omaha office and tell them how disgusted I was that he used taxpayer money to accept a bribe to vote for something the majority of citizen’s don’t want. Call and be heard!
I also- though it’s pointless, I know, called Boxer and Feinstein. Told them that if senators are being bribed into voting for this monstrosity that at least they could have held out and helped CA financially and not just given their vote for free.
Told Boxer I’m sick of representatives who refuse to respect or even hear the will of the people. Told her I will campaign for Carly Fiorino. Want them to feel the heat and the anger.
I love what you told Boxer and DiFi, Lulu. I call them routinely, for all it’s worth.
But at least we got the transparency Obama promised. We can actually see votes being bought and sold!
Quite correct, Lulu. The Left can even advertise this as a positive affect of Obama for the 2012 elections!
Bless you Lulu! Yes, we can actually see the votes bing bought & sold….and I live in Nebraska, and I think Gov. Heineman should call Ben’s bluff! Take the funding OUT. I don’t like it one bit. If Nebraskan’s can’t afford to pay medicare, and the only way we could, is to have the other 49 states pay it for us, who is going to pay it when they can’t? And what problem did this fix, exactly? I called and wrote my representatives weekly. They didn’t care, didn’t listen. I can’t wait until 2010 and 2012. It’s time to clean house.
Don’t worry about taking the funding out–it will co me out at the same time as the ACORN and kill-babies money goes back in.
>>“We have the e-mails that show it,” he said.>>
Make them public then, says I…
Boy, am I late to this party, but Book, just a small change;
Abortion is homicide, not murder. I don’t agree with abortion even with the issue of incest or rape, mind you. But I do believe it is important to be more correct in defining (or clarifying) the terms we use.
>>Abortion is homicide, not murder.>>
Would you clarify the difference, please?
TIA
I tried to comment awhile ago, but Wordpress was crashed.
I don’t like either term because both are about illegal killing of innocents.
Abortion is about the legal killing of inocents. I don’t know an English word for that.
(”Execution” is the legal killing of the not-innocent.)
“Miscarriage of justice” is as close as I can get.
>>I don’t know an English word for that.>>
Morally corrupt.
There are a lot things that are morally corrupt that don’t involve executing people who never had a chance.
True. Doesn’t make my statement untrue, though.
You know…”All dogs are mammals, but not all mammals are dogs” kind of thing…
If you mean it isn’t a specific name for the legal killing of the innocent, you’re right. Abortion is the only name I know of for that. Maybe “human sacrifice”?
Pre-natal infanticide might come close. Moloch worshipping might come even closer.
Most people think that homicide = murder = illegal killing of innocents but that’s not it.
A homicide is simply the taking of a human life. No more, no less. Suicide = taking of your own life. Infanticide = taking the life of babies. Fratricide = taking the life of your brother. Patricide = taking the life of your father.
Homicides can be justified (Justifiable homicide), or not (manslaughter/murder). What we need to be doing is ensuring that people understand you are taking a human life when you perform an abortion. Which is why I don’t believe in abortions performed for rape or incest.
Granted, most abortions are premeditated murder. But that’s not the issue. We need people to face the fundamental facts first, and then we can speak of morality.
There is justifiable homicide. There is also unjustified homicide. The question is legality and justification.
Planned Parenthood needs to convince women that they have no choice but to abort, because it’s just like doing their nails. As a big business, this nets PP great profit, even if they must mislead the public with false advertisement. The solution to businesses such as that is to wreck them.