With Democrats like Nelson, one hardly needs Republicans. Still, with a state like Nebraska, the next person could be worse. Good luck, Nebraska Dems – I’m sure you can find a more progressive candidate than him, I just hope it turns out to be an electable one.
Bah, good riddance to bad rubbish. It sure was tiresome, hearing all the times he voted with Republicans instead of Dems. The heck with him and his years of service … to Wall Street.
CNN is reporting the Dems are reaching out to former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey about coming back…
Good luck, Nebraska. I’m sure you can find a conservative candidate to replace him and help swing control of the Senate to the GoP.
Nelson is retiring in part because he doesn’t think he can win.
Unless the Republicans nominate some form of O’Donnel/Angle, it should be an easy pickup.
Because it’s working out so fucking well to have the GOP in control of the House? Let’s see, what would a Republican Senate push for? Tax cuts for the rich? Right wing judges?
Former Sen. Kerrey may run for Nelson’s seat. It would be nice to replace a faux Democrat with the real thing.
Nebraska . . . Isn’t that the capital of Omaha?
It is the center of the struggle between wheat and corn to be the Earth’s dominant form of life.
I’m afraid AGW might tip the balance to rice . . .
How active is the Tea Party in Nebraska?
Not really very active at all. Nebraska was a very conservative state before the Tea Party movement started.
Judges that base their decisions on the text of the Constitution, and not the penumbras and emanations written in the ether.
In a state as conservative as Nebraska, there is no reason for the GOP to settle for squishy RINOs like those two!
The GOP nominee will either be Attorney General Jon Bruning or Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. There isn’t a Democrat with a high enough profile to do anything now, even if Kerrey did come back.
Ben actually might have won against Bruning–he’s very vulnerable on some personal issues, and, with the exception of an excrable person now representing my parents’ district, Nebraska doesn’t have a record of sending Santorum-like folks to Washington. Then again, the climate has changed so much in the last ten years that a tea party-type might have a shot. Bruning certainly panders to that base; I understand he keeps trophies from captured “illegals” in an office cabinet.
Spoken like a TRUE conservative. Fred Phelps for Nebraska!!!
FTFY: Judges that interpret the text of the Constitution in a way that matches my political ideology.
Methinks for every Ben Nelson there is an equal an opposite Scott Brown. Not that Brown is retiring, but I’m pretty sure that Elizabeth Warren is going to to retire him.
Dude, not funny.
For the record, Nebraska prosecuted Shirley Phelps-Roper for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Those wouldn’t be conservative judges. They’d be imaginary ones.
And a good thing, too.