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Change of Pace: College Football

take a step back today from all the negative world news . . .

As the college football season comes to an end, I just had to add some positive from our little corner of the world

Untitled from Aaron Babcock on Vimeo.

Nelson Runs Ad During Nebraska Bowl Game

you know your goose is cooked when you have to do this . . .

Nebraska's Democrat U.S. Senator Ben Nelson ran a television ad last night during the Huskers' bowl game with Arizona. What was stunning about it were Nelson's very first words in the ad:

"I listened to you"

If your brain just went numb then you just had the same reaction I had when he said those four words.

Why is it when politicians are in trouble their instinct is to treat the public as idiots?

Ben Nelson with those four words just provided further proof that he is clueless because if he really "listened to you" then he would have voted as the great majority of Nebraskans asked repeatedly and he would not have allowed Obamacare to come up for vote.

Nelson, you had your chance last night and this is what we get, an attempt to make us out as some dumb country folk that really meant for you to vote for Obamacare when we said not to vote for Obamacare????? Really, is that the best you have?

Amazing . . . 

I Think We Will Keep Him

Happy New Year everyone . . .

Hey Ben, I Think We Are A Bit Unhappy With YOU

doesn't change his vote but . . .

New Rasmussen Poll on Ben Nelson is what I thought it would be. The great majority of Nebraskans HATE what Nelson did in selling his vote for Obamacare.

The poll shows a Governor Heineman vs Nelson contest but I can tell you that we have several high profile Republicans in this state that would fair as well.

It's ugly out here when you talk to folks about Nelson. The dislike is genuine and we are not a state that gets too worked up about much outside of Nebraska football.

Is There Another Payoff in Ben Nelson's Future?

Cap and Trade will be hitting the Senate soon . . .

It appears that a very familiar group of Democrat Senators have the fate of Cap and Tax in their hands. National Review reports:

"Democratic Senators, fearful of a drubbing in the mid-term elections next year, are lining up to argue for alternatives to the scheme that is the centerpiece of the carbon reduction proposals that Mr Obama hopes to sign into law. With the Congressional battles over Mr Obama’s healthcare reforms fresh in their memory senior Democrats are asking the Administration to postpone the next big climate change push until at least 2011.

Senators from Louisiana, Indiana, Nebraska and North Dakota, some with powerful energy companies among their constituents, are falling out of love with the idea of a large-scale cap-and-trade scheme — which seeks to allocate tradeable permits to major polluters — in favor of less ambitious proposals that put jobs and the economy first."

And GayPatriot has a companion piece today about the Boxer-Kerry bill.

This is same-song-different-verse. We know in the end, how easily Ben Nelson was able to drop his moral commitment to pro-life in favor of Obamacare. Some tax dollar kickbacks and a lot of attention and he decided pro-life wasn't so important after all.

So what will we get this time in Nebraska for his support of Cap and Tax? Oh, Nelson will complain and ponder and lament about how Cap and Tax will hurt Nebraskans but in the end, we all know there is a big FOR SALE sign on Ben Nelson's forehead. Gosh, can't wait for Cornhusker-kickback II.

Those of you outside Nebraska can just start writing checks and sending them to the Nebraska Department of Revenue. Thanks in advance . . .

Seasonally and Politically Appropriate