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It's Monday! Let's get things fired up!
Author: Raine
Date: 08/03/2009 12:39:41
Good morning everyone! I am going to keep it light and sweet this morning. It is going to be a crazy week in DC. We will have the final push before all the congresscritters come back to their home states and districts. Sonya Sotomayor is expected to be confirmed as our next Supreme Court Justice. Yesterday, the Grumpy ol' Man that didn't win the election said he was still on the fence regarding Ms. Sotomayor. There is a push for new "cash for clunkers" money, people will be tinkering with Health Care Reform, and I am sure the President will be quite busy with the new GI Bill until he departs for Martha's Vineyard. I fully expect the press to make that the controversy of the week.
One Senator however, may be thinking twice about his return to Nebraska, that would be Senator Ben Nelson. Whether or not one agrees with the ad can be debated, but for a senator to threaten to kill healthcare reform because he doesn't like what is being said about him is simply unacceptable in my opinion. I personally don't know if Senator Nelson is corrupt, but I do know that he is quite beholden to insurance companies. He was a former State Insurance Commissioner, so he knows insurance companies very well.Interesting. Take a look at who PIA is. Hmm-- Seems like a special interest group to me. I am thinking it's is going to be a long hot August for a few of these Conservadems Senators. One thing is for Sure They are putting the insurance industry before the welfare of the people, and that HAS to change. Between Nelson and Max Baucus, we are not getting what AMERICA needs.
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One Senator however, may be thinking twice about his return to Nebraska, that would be Senator Ben Nelson.
A liberal activist working with an advocacy group founded by former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has attacked Nelson as “bought and paid for by health and insurance interests” and suggested he is “corrupt” and “out of touch.”
Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), made the charges in a scathing statement that said Nelson “feels perfectly comfortable lying to his constituents” if he continues to object to a liberal TV ad criticizing him.
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Green’s strongly-worded statement came in response to a statement made by Nelson spokesman Jake Thompson, who criticized the liberal groups’ tactics.
Thompson said the group’s “scare tactics are certain to further divide the public on healthcare reform, make it less likely Congress will pass real reform.
“If this is an indication of the politics going into August, then healthcare reform may be dead by the end of August,” Nelson’s spokesman concluded.
Green subsequently accused Nelson of threatening to kill healthcare reform:
“Did Ben Nelson really just say that if the grassroots keep pressuring him, he’ll kill healthcare reform?” Green wrote in a public response. “That’s unacceptable in a democracy, so we will be increasing our Nebraska ad buy on Monday morning.”
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), a former state insurance commissioner and official with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), addressed a legislative briefing for PIA members on the evening before their visits to Capitol Hill. Sen. Nelson taped some tips for PIA on conducting successful Congressional visits and answered our questions about optional federal charter proposals during a meeting in his Senate office.
Sen. Nelson expressed skepticism about optional federal charter proposals.
PIA represents members' interests in state capitals and on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to ensure that lawmakers understand insurance agents' positions. PIA's grassroots campaigns and our political action committee, PIAPAC, give individual agents a powerful collective voice in government.
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