Truly a disheartening day. If this is how business is done on a regular basis then I am embarrassed and ashamed. I am not proud to be an American today....if this is the American process.
These are not "sweetheart deals". This is bribery and extortion. It is vote buying. It is ACORN on a large scale.
I am sick and tired of watching the corruption and then the same corrupt people slapping themselves on the "historic event". Corruption is not historic....it has gone on throughout history and has resulted in the downfall of many.
Ben Nelson is the Pontius Pilate of abortion. Wringing his hands and then washing them because the dead babies will not be in Nebraska. And taking money for his constituents from the rest of the country's citizen’s labor as tribute for a vote.
He should be ashamed and leave in disgrace. But then....he is a US Senator and that is what they do....
Is that what you will do?
My response to Chris’ question was, “This is what I'll fight with all my being.”
Nelson won increased federal funds to cover Nebraska's cost of covering an expanded Medicaid population at a cost that one Democratic official put at $45 million over a decade. So if Sen. Blanche Lincoln votes for this bill, she will be voting for Arkansans to pay for the dramatically increased cost of Medicaid in Arkansas and in Nebraska.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who pushed through abortion restrictions in the House-passed bill, rejected Nelson's deal. He called it "not acceptable" because it "would allow the federal government to subsidize insurance policies with abortion coverage." Under Nelson’s abortion compromise, states will be able to opt out of federally subsidized payments for abortions. The net effect is that while Arkansan’s federal tax dollars may not be subsidizing abortions in Nebraska, they will be in other states.
The next and possibly most critical test vote is set for about 1 a.m. Monday. Yes, 1 a.m. Reid reportedly has scheduled the final Senate vote on the bill for 8:30 p.m. on Christmas eve. It is significant that Reid is determined to get this bill passed before Senators can go home for the Christmas break – and hear from their employers.
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Your a great man mr Coleman, Please keep it up!
ReplyDeleteI have been to your state many times for the National Roller Skating Championships and the home of USAC/RS, and I am ashamed that Sen. Nelson has sold out his beliefs for the shortfall of money your state will need under this healthcare debockle. I have no hope for my state (NY), but hope in 2010 Americans will vote to kick the bums out who insist on destroying America with more government intrusion into our lives!
ReplyDeleteStaying Focused On The Main Issue of Federal Health Care
ReplyDeleteDebra J.M. Smith - www.InformingChristians.com
December 08, 2009
Though we can use the details of government ran health care plans, to show just how far off the beaten path many in our federal government have gone and how severe the need is to replace them, we must keep to the fact that any federal government ran health care is unconstitutional.
If someone broke into our homes to steal from us, we would not stand there and debate with them, what they could and couldn't take or in which way they can and cannot carry out the job. We would call the police to get their rears out of our homes!
We would not debate with a would-be rapist, as to what he could and couldn't do to us.
We would not debate with a murderer, on what method he could kill us by.
Why on earth, would we debate with Congress over what way they can go against the U.S. Constitution and take over our health care?
We must keep focused on the fact that it is all wrong to begin with! And we must use this to educate voters and to remove those people in government who are not upholding and defending the U.S. Constitution.
For those citizens, who do not appreciate and do not wish to defend the U.S. Constitution, we need to point them in the direction of Canada. Let them move to a country that allows for such a thing.