MSNBC: Nebraska's Ben Nelson will not seek reelection.

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31. I am happy

That you at least wear your Blue dog support on your shoulder.

The fact of the matter is that it is the Nelsons and the Bayhs and their ilk that are as much to blame as anything for our losses in 2010. By giving the republicans constant fillibuster cover and by facilitating the most obstructionist minority parties tantrums in the history of the US it made it harder for the White House to paint the reality of what the republicans were doing.

By blocking progressive reform in the committees and failing to call out the fillibusters it prevented crucial up or down votes on issues we could have hung around the necks of the repukes and smothered the tea party before it got going. They would have been standing up for obstructionism and against serious reform.

Moreover people like Bayh and Nelson stood with the banks at every turn making it impossible to get proper regulation put against these people when it should have been childs play to do so since they were recieving our money. We could have cornered the pro-bank republicans and painted them exactly for who they support.

The fact is that Bayh and his bunch cut our heels out from under us in December of 2008 when they formed up their blue dog caucus before President Obama even took the oath of office. Had they not been bank loving weenies we might have actually accomplished a hell of a lot more and it is these same weenies that helped ruin healthcare by forcing out the public option. After all, because healthcare reform was done during budget consolidation we only needed a simple majority to pass it so it could have been as Democratic as all get out.

And what has become of most of the Blue Dogs? Exactly what one would expect. Fail to excite the Democrats in your state and fail to represent their interests and the interests of the poor and working class and they will not show up to vote for your ass.

And where did these guys immediately go to to find work? Those wonderful people in the lobbying industry that have been so wonderful to us.

Someday Nebraska will vote for a real Democrat. Soon? Who can say, but eventually it will happen.