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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:44 PM
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"Democrat" Nelson says he'll vote to confirm Alito
Just heard on CNN.
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Pam-Moby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:46 PM
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1. Yes well I think he is a dino!
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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 06:29 PM
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13. deleted wrong post
Edited on Tue Jan-17-06 06:29 PM by William769
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:46 PM
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2. weak kneed bastard. He will never be elected again.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:52 PM
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6. actually he probably will
he is from the bible belt
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:54 PM
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8. sure he will, unless he gets defeated for being too liberal
bush is running a 14% net approval in Nebraska, according to survey USA

http://surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateBush060117State.htm

Only Utah and Idaho are more pro-bush.

How we have a Democratic senator in Nebraska at all is the shocking thing, not that that Nelson is voting for Alito.
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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 06:57 PM
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16. Not unusual.
Democrats that come from the deep Red states are extremely moderate or even bordering on being a Republican. Here in Oklahoma the democratic challenger to Coburn was "un"Democratic that when the two went on national TV to debate, many posters here thought that Carson was the Republican!
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-19-06 09:55 AM
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30. Nelson switched parties years ago (but still has his stripes)
Nelson switched parties so he could run for Governor when the Republicans said they already had their man. He has never really been a Democrat.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:55 PM
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10. Well, even the bible belt people have limits.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:58 PM
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12. Of course he will...
He is way out in front in the polls...

From Nebraska this is what we are gonna get...I'll take it. He votes with theparty 60% of the time, and he is a vote for Harry reid.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 07:43 PM
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18. 60% actually sounds high...
He's a fairly reliable vote for the repukes...I'm curious where you got the number? Is there a link for that?
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 08:10 PM
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19. Actually got it from the ADA website...
I'll locate the link...
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-19-06 09:50 AM
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29. He 2004 he voted with liberals 65% of the time
http://www.adaction.org/ADATodayVR2004.pdf
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 11:01 PM
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22. Screw him. He sells us out on the important stuff...like war and frreedom
and constitutional rights, screw him and all the DLC GOPers in drag.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 11:19 PM
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26. Yes ...so the solution to that problem...
Is to dump him overboard and get a true hard right Republican instead....losing a seat, and a vote for Harry Reid as Majority leader.

Brilliant strategy!
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formernaderite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 11:12 PM
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25. Nelson is a place holder...no more
without him we'd have one less seat in the Senate. Jim Jeffords played a similar role for the repubs. I imagine Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are viewed similarly. What we should do is offer some of those repubs a deal...Jeffordize them. Of course they could do the same to our Nelsons.
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:47 PM
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3. Nebraska nelson?
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:48 PM
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4. Jay-sus, at least I have hope that LIEberman will side with us this time
But what the hell is wrong with Nelson??!! DINO!!!!
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 06:37 PM
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14. In the best of all possible worlds Nelson wouln't vote
for Alito. But Nelson is from Nebraska, a state as red as my own is blue. We need him. He's up for re-election. If we can retain him, and take PA, OH and 3 other seats, we get back the Senate. Even if we narrow the gap to say, 52-48, bush will have an almost impossible time getting through far right judges, and not just SCOTUS Justices either; we havve the rest of the fed bench to worry about. As has ben oft said politics is the art of the possible.
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bread_and_roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 07:00 PM
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17. Is there any reason to think that Nelson wouldn't vote for a "far-right"
Judge? Alito isn't "far-right" enough to qualify? The Part of changing the dynamic to make a vote against Alito "campaignable" is a united front. Enough opposition and people begin to think. We don't have enough opposition to this Junta, so they'll continue to win.

I lived through Johnson, Nixon, Reagan - and nothing I've ever seen approaches the spineless compliance of this Congress. They are next to useless.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 11:02 PM
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23. BFD...he'll put far right judges in there too...when you ever gonna learn?
He's a RW Republican.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-19-06 07:16 AM
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28. It's simple
and I don't know why you guys can't figure it out. If the dems take back the Senate, they get the majority on the Judiciary Committee. They can stop right wing judges right there. Is Nelson on Judiciary? Why, no. In fact, with dems in charge, bush wouldn't even bother sending wingnuts to the Senate. That's how it makes a difference, and that's how it works. Try learning something about procedure. It's just not all about ideology.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:51 PM
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5. we can still filibuster without nelson
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neverevergivein Donating Member (227 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 09:09 PM
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21. Without Nelson and DiFi
we are in some trouble.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-18-06 09:21 AM
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27. no, feinstein is in trouble, and so is the DNC
and democrats who DON'T support this

I have stopped contributing to the DNC until I see action, and made my intentions know to them. That does NOT mean I do not give to individual candidates, but not to the group as a whole

The alito nomination is an extremely big test for me. It is NOT about winning or losing, but doing the right thing

I can understand how they would NOT have tried to stop roberts because he had no paper trail, but alito, there is no question where he stands, there is also no question that he lied on an application about being in CAP, and didn't recuse himself in a Vanguard case in which he PROMISED HE WOULD
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:53 PM
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7. Which Nelson?
We've got one named Bill in Florida.
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:56 PM
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11. this is about Ben (NE)
I don't know whether Bill had announced a decision yet. He does tend to weigh the stacks of phone messages, though, so be sure to call his office.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:55 PM
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9. Well, what do you expect, he is from my red state of Georgia.
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radio4progressives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 06:52 PM
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15. It's Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska here Link to Contact
i posted this information in a different thread, here are Sen. Nelson's office numbers in Nebraska and Washington DC.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2374336&mesg_id=2374773
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 08:22 PM
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20. Thom Hartmann want everyone to jam Nelson's office with phone calls
and emails!!! He said, he was getting lot of phone calls from republicans opposing Alito and we Dems must do it too!!!
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 11:11 PM
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24. i'll call him on the next malloy commercial n/t
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