I want to tell you about a Nebraska blogger named Kyle Michaelis who pretends to be "the state's premiere source of progressive online political commentary" but is actually an apologist for Ben Nelson.
But first, the background details, some of which Paul mentioned earlier...
On Friday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America launched a new TV ad in DC and Nebraska holding Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) accountable for stalling health care reform while taking millions from health and insurance interests.
The ad features a super-compelling Nebraskan small businessman. It's accompanied by an open letter now signed by over 30,000 people calling out Nelson and telling the full Senate to keep working until health care reform is passed.
Ben Nelson immediately responded. The full statement is here, but the two most relevant sentences were:
Nebraskans don't need outside special interest groups telling them what to think...
If this is an indication of the politics going into August, then health care reform may be dead by the end of August.
The first sentence is absurd because the ad features a Nebraskan telling his personal story and demanding his senator represent people like him. (It's also absurd because, as Public Campaign points out, 83% of Nelson's millions from health and insurance interests comes from out of state!)
The second sentence...well, these headlines sum up the outrageousness:
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