Remember way back into last year, when the world was full of promise over the new health care law that Ben Nelson was the lynchpin vote for. Remember how Nancy Pelosi said we would have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill?
Now your decrepit senior senator announces today in his propaganda machine how he and Republican Senator Pat Roberts (Kan.) introduced a bill that would repeal one section of the very law he didn't read, but yet voted against the wishes of his constituency.
According to a statement contained in his weekly e-blast, Senator Nelson wrote, “Nebraskans shouldn’t have to get a note from their doctor every time they want to take something for a headache, heartburn, or hay fever,” I agree with him completely, however the Senator continues to miss the point. People had to do this because of his last vote on health care.
It is more than a little disingenuous for the Senator to position his new bill as one that is protecting the interests of the people of Nebraska. It's a little like a fireman who starts a fire just so he can rescue the kids. The Senator created the problem he now seeks to address and hopefully make you forget that it was his fault to begin with.
As the old homespun saying goes, "I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night!" Wake up Senator and smell the smell of retirement.
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