I called Nelson's Omaha office I guess it was when I got home here after work hours in DC and gave some poor girl an earful about this. I just don't get this. I really don't.

You've alluded to shame and a politician in the same sentence. ??????????????????

short a quick. When do we reach the breaking point.I am just gonna sit back and wait.

And he decided, inexplicably, to royally screw the party and give his middle finger to black voters all across the country.

Inexplicably? Nebraska is 94% white. There's just a hair over 76,000 black people in the entire state. It's obscenely cynical, but inexplicable it is not.

Frankly, I don't understand why left-wing activists are not all over these low population states. The 1.7 million people who live in Nebraska may not count for shit in presidential elections or representatives in the House, but they've got the same number of senators as the 34 million people living in California, and from a marketing standpoint, that means your cost of acquisition is a lot lower. Between spending on activism and funneling pork their way, there's no reason we ought not to be able to buy 51% of the votes in Nebraska and four or five other states outright.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?

A question about Hans von Spakovsky's family background:

After WWII the US intelligence services, to include the CIA after its formation in 1947, imported fascists into the US. There was the infamous Operation Paperclip (for Nazi scientists) and other programs, as described in Christopher Simpson's book BLOWBACK, which talked about the problem with importing fascists into the US, to include the political motivations by Republicans for so doing.

If I'm not mistaken, Huntsville, Alabama was where a lot of those Nazi rocket scientists were placed. That's where von Spakovsky was born. From Wiki: "He is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the United States in 1951 after meeting in a refugee camp as displaced persons after the end of World War II."

Is von Spakovsky the spawn of the Nazis imported into the US by the CIA after WWII? What would that say about von Spakovsky? Ben Nelson? George Bush? The Republican Party?

The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

I live in the goddamned RED HELL that is Nebraska, spawning ground of all things Ben.  Trust me people, Ben doesn't care about black people or poor people or any people other than those he can make a buck or buy a vote from.

This is what I wrote to my dear, retired mother yesterday:

"Ben Nelson is a prick and I hope to God that enough Dem senators are elected in 2008 to make him and his fucking corporate fellating carcass so inconsequential that even Diane (`nother corp dem skank) Feinstein won't take his calls."

Hagel (bless his black, corporate heart) has done more to represent me and I didn't vote for the guy.  I'm lowered to voting for a "D" behind some dickhead's name.  (Don't even get me started on the walking penis with ears that supposedly represents me in the house.)

And then I posted to the DCCC blog this morning after getting yet another request for money from them:

Note to Dems: The Republicans are going to say nasty things about you whether you capitulate or not. In my own state, the GOP senator has shown more spine and willingness to follow his conscience than the traingulating hairdo with a "D" behind his name.

Until the Democrats in the House and Senate stand up and fight back, my money will be going to the ACLU and MoveOn (since they're doing more to protect us from the GOP than the Dems are).

I'm still kicking myself for the last checks I wrote to the DSCC and DCCC.

And lest anyone forget, these are the most important of E. Benjamin's creds:

Nelson enjoyed a successful career in insurance law. He has served as CEO of the Central National Insurance Group, as chief of staff and executive vice president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and as director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance.

I hate Ben Nelson and all of his little friends.