from the San Diego Reader

Paul Fell had some harsh words for Senator Ben Nelson in his e-mail newsletter this morning (which you can and should subscribe to here) in a piece called “A Bad Faith Liar”:

Over the weekend, on CBS’ “Face The Nation”, both Lieberman and Nelson seemed to argue vigorously against the new health care proposal - one that Sen. Nelson disingenuously helped to create - the details of which haven’t even been released to the entire Senate yet.

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In the meantime, Sen. Nelson seems to think it’s acceptable to operate in bad faith, both to his colleagues, and to the Nebraskans he nominally represents in the Senate.

Mr. Nelson, we’re going to ask you for a present this holiday season: start telling the truth. Quit being a fraud. Be yourself instead of some lapdog for the insurance lobby.

If you’re against health care reform because the insurance companies own you, then please just have the courage to say it. Most Nebraskans already believe that you’re a lackey of the insurance companies anyway.

At least if you came out and HONESTLY opposed ANY health care reform, everyone would know where you stand - squarely in the pockets of big insurance.

from the Lincoln Journal Star

I’m trying to think — the only one I can picture is the one on the 84th Street exit in Omaha and I’m not sure if that’s still there. Long ago, my roommate and I used to take regular early-morning trips to the one at the airport in Lincoln for second dinner, but I know that’s long gone.

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny’s

from the Lincoln Journal Star

from the San Diego Reader

Good comment from visitor dsimon on a Bruce Bartlett post differentiating between actual deficit hawks and jokers like Evan Bayh:

If our politicians can’t make hard choices–or even easy ones–maybe it’s because the public doesn’t really want to make them. If our budgets are consistently fiscally irresponsible, perhaps it’s because voters have wanted it that way. It’s been too easy from the time of Reagan to believe in the free lunch, and now we howl any time we’re asked to actually pay for the programs or tax cuts we say we want. But thing we care about are things we should be willing to do something about. When was the last time we were asked to actually do something regarding what we said we wanted from our government?