{"id":5575,"date":"2011-08-10T02:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2011-08-10T02:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:41:16","slug":"could-someone-be-worse-than-ben-nelson-dino-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/could-someone-be-worse-than-ben-nelson-dino-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Someone Be Worse than Ben Nelson (DINO-NE)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s difficult to imagine a worse Democratic (using the term most loosely) Senator than Ben Nelson (DINO-NE) who had goose stepped with the GOP on virtually every issue.  When he has voted with our party he committed blackmail of Republican proportions, demanding that Nebraska get a deal that nobody else does, thereby giving Republicans a major talking point against HCR.  He is currently behind in the polls to Nebraska Attorney general Jon Burning, who almost makes Nelson look good.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10BruningHat\"<\/p>\n

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, a frontrunner<\/a> to win the GOP nomination against Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), compared poor people to scavenging racoons in a speech this week. <\/p>\n

In a video captured by the liberal group, American Bridge 21st Century, Bruning makes the comparison as part of an elaborate metaphor originally focused on environmental regulations. He describes a requirement that workers at a construction project gather up endangered beetles by luring them into a bucket with a dead rat in order to release them elsewhere. But the plan is thwarted when hungry raccoons then eat them straight out of the rat-infested bucket. Which, according to Bruning, is a perfect image to illustrate how welfare recipients receive their benefits [sic]\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n