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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Bye bye Ben Nelson of Nebraska
	Date:	12/28/2011 9:43:02 AM

Yet another in a long line of Dems that voted for Obamacare and having read the electoral Tea Party leaves decided to "spend more time with their family". Right........at age 70 after spending over 20 years in politics he decides he needs to move on as he so eloquently put it.

Now Dems were already in a pickle holding onto the Senate as they had to defend 23 of the total 33 seats in this cycle and at a time of high unemployment and an unpopular Oblamer. So far, six of them have chosen to retire and spend more time with their families rather than pissing away millions to lose to the GOP challenger. The gap between folks that identify themselves as Republican or Democrat has shifted dramatically toward the right side of the spectrum. Independents have abandoned the Messiah's agenda in droves (well, he still has Hound as the lonely voice of one crying out in the wilderness). Heck, I am even starting to think we might get a filibuster proof majority......not that this will matter with the RINO's like Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe, etc. But it will look good on paper.

Oh and let me point out that Ben often voted with the GOP but was strong armed into voting for Obamacare. So much for Hound's half-baked theory that Americans want their elected officials to compromise......what they really want is for their representative to pursue their agenda and get the opposition to compromise. That is the way politics has always worked.....except of course to the politically naive like Hound.