{"id":3213,"date":"2010-01-15T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:35:24","slug":"senator-nelson%e2%80%99s-cornhusker-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3213\/senator-nelson%e2%80%99s-cornhusker-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Nelson\u2019s Cornhusker Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ben Nelson\u2019s home state kickbacks are notorious.\u00a0  The \u201cCornhusker Kickback\u201d is firmly entrenched in the American political lexicon and now Nelson is starting to hear it from his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31488.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this report<\/span><\/a> from <em>Politico<\/em>, Nelson and his wife were eating at a local pizza joint when one patron recognized the longtime politician and yelled, \u201cGet him the hell out of here!\u201d\u00a0  Other customers began to boo and Senator Nelson and his party disappeared into the Nebraska cold.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this local pressure is taking its toll on not only Nelson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2012\/nebraska\/election_2012_nebraska_senate\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">approval rating<\/span><\/a> but also his conscience (if politicians have those).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/42309-1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Roll Call<\/em><\/span><\/a> reports that Nelson has asked Harry Reid to drop the infamous Cornhusker Kickback.<\/p>\n<p>As Andy Roth over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubforgrowth.org\/perm\/?postID=12425\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Club for Growth<\/span><\/a> wrote, \u201cNebraskans will still be forced to swallow ObamaCare AND they\u2019ll have to pay more for it.\u00a0  Sorry, Senator Nelson, you can\u2019t unring that bell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ben Nelson\u2019s home state kickbacks are notorious.\u00a0 The \u201cCornhusker Kickback\u201d is firmly entrenched in the American political lexicon and now Nelson is starting to hear it from his constituents. According to this report from Politico, Nelson and his wife were eating at a local pizza joint when one patron recognized the longtime politician and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[531,77,687,38,178],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ben-nelson","tag-harry-reid","tag-pork","tag-senate","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}