{"id":307679,"date":"2010-02-11T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66561"},"modified":"2010-02-11T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:30:15","slug":"ben-nelson-continues-to-thwart-obama%e2%80%99s-agenda-with-no-repercussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307679","title":{"rendered":"Ben Nelson Continues to Thwart Obama\u2019s Agenda With No Repercussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-66562\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/11\/ben-nelson-continues-to-thwart-obamas-agenda-with-no-repercussions\/225px-ben_nelson_official_photo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-66562\" title=\"225px-Ben_Nelson_official_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/225px-Ben_Nelson_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>That Harry Reid really runs a tight ship,<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/80629-sen-nelson-defects-from-democrats-over-911-trials\"> doesn&#8217;t he?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined a bipartisan effort on Wednesday to block the administration from trying the Sept. 11th suspects in civilian courts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/32705.html\">And before that<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Monday evening that he will support a Republican-led filibuster<\/strong> over President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/nelson-keeps-digging\">And before that<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>In trouble at home and looking even more silly after Scott   Brown&#8217;s victory, Sen. Ben Nelson is now trying to claim that all   along, <strong>he had planned to filibuster the health care bill before   the final vote if the merged bill that came back from conference   didn&#8217;t include the House&#8217;s more restrictive abortion language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Forget Reid, where&#8217;s the White House? Where&#8217;s Nelson&#8217;s Senate colleagues? Where&#8217;s Rahmbo? Is everyone just scared of Nelson?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall a Senate Republican who dared to screw with the Bush White House like this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66561&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_66561\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Harry Reid really runs a tight ship, doesn&#8217;t he? Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined a bipartisan effort on Wednesday to block the administration from trying the Sept. 11th suspects in civilian courts. And before that, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Monday evening that he will support a Republican-led filibuster over President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}