I just finished watching Rachel Maddow interview Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska who is a democrat. I’ll get right to the point, this man is an idiot who should be fired immediately.
Basically he negotiated to take a bunch of stimulative items out of the stimulus bill to gain Republican support. Now if he just admitted that, it would be one thing. However Rachel kept bringing up things he had dropped out of the bill that were clearly stimulative, such as money for building schools, money for firefighters, and money for food stamps, which is the most stimulative item we know of because it all gets spent on stuff.
After she would ask him about each of these things he would double talk and try to switch the topic in the worst, most obvious way. When she asked him about money dropped for building schools, he claimed that the government should not mandate school programs like “no child left behind” or “special education” (yes, he did) because then they wouldn’t back it up with funding. But what she was talking about was money that was all funding and no mandate. He literally wasn’t making any sense, and the frown on Rachel’s face was hilarious. Her face said, “You sir, are a total retard.” I guess he should be thankful for special education after all.
If you are a constituent of Ben Nelson please replace him with another democrat in the next election. He’s an idiot.