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December 27, 2011

Cornhusker Kick-Out: Ben Nelson Announcing Retirement
— Ace

This isn't as big of a deal as it seems -- he was doomed anyway, pretty much. He's just recognizing the inevitable.

He can either go through an arduous and expensive campaign and then not be senator in 2013 or he can not go through that process and then not be senator. Either way, he's not going to be senator.

Politico spins this a "major blow" to Democrats' chances to hold the Senate. Still, the Democrats did want him to run:

The White House and top Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), had quietly mounted a pressure campaign to keep Nelson from retiring. Nelson has more than $3 million in his campaign war chest, and his approval rating solidified after falling over the last several years.
But with Nelson stepping down, the DemocratsÂ’ hold on the Senate is in serious doubt, although Democratic leaders believe they can still do so. Republicans are expected to pick up control of the Cornhusker State seat, although popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D) has been talking to top Democrats about possibly running again.

Posted by: Ace at 09:44 AM | Comments (53)
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1 hope they fail.

Posted by: willow at December 27, 2011 09:46 AM (h+qn8)

Isn't Bob Kerrey a MOH winner?

I hope he doesn't get in.

Posted by: Ben at December 27, 2011 09:46 AM (wuv1c)

4 First. And Ben Nelsen can suck my rod.

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 09:47 AM (W/Zyi)

5 Good riddance to bad rubbish. We will take the Senate but only by a small margin. That is why all the talk of repealing Obamacare is so much BS.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2011 09:47 AM (YdQQY)

6 Oh and fuck Dick Lugar. Didn't he just declare that the Tea Party will cost the Republicans the Senate and White House in 2012.

Posted by: Ben at December 27, 2011 09:48 AM (wuv1c)

7 Why so blue, Ace?

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 09:48 AM (W/Zyi)

8 Html fail .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 27, 2011 09:48 AM (npr0X)

9 Good. Another corruptocrat put out to pasture. He could take Reid and Schumer with him, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, President, Curmudgeon's Union Local 427 at December 27, 2011 09:50 AM (d0Tfm)

10 Cripes. With the candidates we have, their coattails will resemble a flea's prick. The Donks got a shot at holding the Senate.

Posted by: maddogg at December 27, 2011 09:51 AM (OlN4e)

11 Ah jeez, not with the formatting again...

(And yeah, good riddance Nelson)

Posted by: DarkLord© for Prez! at December 27, 2011 09:51 AM (GBXon)

12 1 Door 1 Ass Some Assembly Required

Posted by: Doc at December 27, 2011 09:51 AM (XECOp)

13 With the candidates we have, their coattails will resemble a flea's prick. Posted by: maddogg at December 27, 2011 01:51 PM (OlN4e) You do have a way with words

Posted by: nevergiveup at December 27, 2011 09:51 AM (i6RpT)

14 Good riddance to bad rubbish. We will take the Senate but only by a small margin. That is why all the talk of repealing Obamacare is so much BS.

Posted by: Vic at December 27, 2011 01:47 PM (YdQQY)

I'm not as pessimistic as you. Even if we don't get the 60 majority, I think this election will scare enough dems into caving on a repeal. Many of them would like to see it go away. It's an albatross around their necks.

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 09:51 AM (W/Zyi)

15 blockquotes. You shall not pass </blockquote>

Posted by: Ben at December 27, 2011 09:52 AM (wuv1c)

16 So that's North Dakota and Nebraska as pickups, with Wisconsin, Montana, Missouri, Virginia, Florida as possibles and New Mexico, Hawaii, Michigan and Ohio as longshots.

Posted by: CAC at December 27, 2011 09:52 AM (6gk77)

17 I hope Kerrey has used his time off to get some better lesbian jokes. His suck.

Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at December 27, 2011 09:53 AM (QKKT0)

18 v

Posted by: Ben at December 27, 2011 09:54 AM (wuv1c)

19 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at December 27, 2011 09:55 AM (8y9MW)

20 Gotta put 'em in your 'Name' to work, Ben.

And no, I'm not trying. Broke things worse last time I did.

Posted by: DarkLord© for Prez! at December 27, 2011 09:56 AM (GBXon)

21 So much gray.

Posted by: JoeInMD at December 27, 2011 09:56 AM (Xwgt3)

22 There, that's got it, I think.

Posted by: DarkLord© for Prez! at December 27, 2011 09:56 AM (GBXon)

23 Guess again, DL.

Posted by: JoeInMD at December 27, 2011 09:57 AM (Xwgt3)

24 Oh bugger, see what I mean? That's why I don't try to fix the blog anymore...

Posted by: DarkLord© for Prez! at December 27, 2011 09:57 AM (GBXon)

25 I thought you weren't going to try, DL. Now you broke it worse.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at December 27, 2011 09:57 AM (8y9MW)

26 Oh and fuck Dick Lugar. Didn't he just declare that the Tea Party will cost the Republicans the Senate and White House in 2012.

Never trust someone who can smile with all of his upper teeth while he talks (look at any videos of him).

And Ace: Fix the grey shit.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at December 27, 2011 09:57 AM (kqqGm)

27 I believe Kerrey has been living in NYC for a long time running the New School? Can't believe Nebraskans would lie down for that like New Yorkers did for Hillarys carpetbagging.

Posted by: jjshaka at December 27, 2011 09:58 AM (reOPo)

Ben's out, we'll be booting Bill out next down here.

How nice it would be to have a veto-proof Congress. We could dismantle the SCOAMF's Marxist Utopia right before his eyes and tie up his cabinet members and czars in endless hearings, starting with Eric Holder and working their way down to the janitor in Nazi Pelousi's office.

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, President, Curmudgeon's Union Local 427 at December 27, 2011 09:58 AM (d0Tfm)

29 Has anyone noticed that the "Colon Flow" company is doing a lot of advertising lately. It's almost like they're trying to tell us something.

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 09:58 AM (W/Zyi)

30 We're going plaid .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 27, 2011 09:58 AM (npr0X)

31 My kingdom for u (in /blockqote)

Posted by: JoeInMD at December 27, 2011 09:59 AM (Xwgt3)

32 Victim of his "Obamacare" Vote ??????????????

Posted by: Wall_E at December 27, 2011 10:01 AM (48wze)

33 ?

Posted by: blaster at December 27, 2011 10:02 AM (Fw2Gg)

Barack Hussein Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Alte Schule at December 27, 2011 10:02 AM (MLJu8)

35 This is good. We need to get back the Senate. Also, Mitt Romney is a Trojan Conservative Horse. He will get us a conservative Presidency; many will simply think they're voting for a competent President. It will happen.

Posted by: ParisParamus at December 27, 2011 10:03 AM (oPWjV)

36 Victim of his "Obamacare" Vote ??????????????

Posted by: Wall_E at December 27, 2011 02:01 PM (48wze)

That and the dirty, under-the-table deal they made with him to get his vote.

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 10:04 AM (W/Zyi)

37 Somebody! Anybody! Fix this thread!

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 10:06 AM (W/Zyi)

38 Somebody fiX0red it.

Posted by: blaster at December 27, 2011 10:07 AM (Fw2Gg)

39 Okay. This is more like it. Thanks, whoever you are.

Posted by: Soona at December 27, 2011 10:07 AM (W/Zyi)

40 This is good. We need to get back the Senate. Also, Mitt Romney is a Trojan Conservative Horse. He will get us a conservative Presidency; many will simply think they're voting for a competent President. It will happen.

Are you saying he's running as an Obama v2008 doppelganger?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at December 27, 2011 10:07 AM (kqqGm)

Is it too late to have Christine OÂ’Donnell establish residency?

Posted by: jwest at December 27, 2011 10:08 AM (8moZm)

42 Wasn't me, that's what happened last time I tried...I guess learning from the mistakes of others is harder than one might think...

Posted by: DarkLord© for Prez! at December 27, 2011 10:14 AM (GBXon)

43 Also, Mitt Romney is a Trojan Conservative Horse. He will get us a conservative Presidency; many will simply think they're voting for a competent President. It will happen.

This is a very optimistic view of the situation. I agree.

Posted by: pep at December 27, 2011 10:16 AM (6TB1Z)

44 What a shock, Ben Nelson quits and goes home.

And Kerrey didn't make a lot of friends in Nebraska with his appearance on the 9/11 commission.

Posted by: Charlie Crist at December 27, 2011 10:19 AM (UEEex)

45 Wow, that's a old sock.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 27, 2011 10:19 AM (UEEex)

46

Take a few months off, then get appointed as Mitt Romney's Secretary of Agriculture.

Big tent, reach across the aisle, dontchaknow....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 27, 2011 10:38 AM (3wBRE)

47 29 Has anyone noticed that the "Colon Flow" company is doing a lot of advertising lately. It's almost like they're trying to tell us something. Posted by: Soona

Not again. Between that and erection drugs I just turn of the telly.

Posted by: mpfs, I hate my neighbor who parks in my spot at December 27, 2011 10:44 AM (iYbLN)

That is why all the talk of repealing Obamacare is so much BS.

Vic, repeal is one thing, starving of money is another.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 27, 2011 10:44 AM (B+qrE)

49 Cornholio kickback backlash

Posted by: FrankG at December 27, 2011 10:46 AM (ObuL+)

50 Y'know, I'd love to see the GOP get a big bump in the Senate, along with the House and the White House.

Because I want to see them prove me wrong.

I want them to show me that they can actually take some serious whacks at the bureaucracy that's been growing...well, some might say since Lincoln or Teddy or FDR but I'll settle for the plague that descended on us with the rock-em-sock-em big-government tandem of LBJ and Tricky Dick and has continued, in bigger and smaller doses, since.

I want them to prove to me that they won't turn into a bunch of mouth-breathing stump preachers about social-con issues, that there will be no more Terri Schiavos, and that any discussion of the A-word is tempered by consideration of the proper relationship of the federal government to the states.

But this is the GOP, the bunch that's earned their Stupid Party moniker again and again.

Posted by: JEM at December 27, 2011 11:13 AM (o+SC1)

51 Leeches like Nelson don't quit unless it is really bad. You can only lie to yourself for a short while until reality falls on your head. The libs are learning this every day with Obama at the top of the ticket.......

Posted by: Wall_E at December 27, 2011 01:08 PM (48wze)

52 Brave, brave Sir Robin Ben

Posted by: Roy at December 27, 2011 01:27 PM (tiOTz)

53 Wow this is soo helpful I have been trying to figure this out on my own for a long time now. Hopefully making this change will help encourage discussion on my blog.

Posted by: Hidden Summit epub at December 27, 2011 03:49 PM (KDUx0)

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