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Ben Nelson to Henry McMaster: 'Call off the dogs'
Politico ^ | January 1, 2010 | ALEX ISENSTADT

Posted on 01/01/2010 1:38:39 PM PST by maggief

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) reached out Thursday evening to South Carolina GOP Attorney General Henry McMaster, the leader of a group of 13 Republican state attorneys general who are threatening to file suit against the Senate health care bill, and urged him to forgo any legal action, POLITICO has learned.

According to a copy of a memo sent by McMaster’s chief of staff to other GOP state attorneys general detailing the call, Nelson asked McMaster to “call off the dogs,” a reference to recent threats by the state AGs to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Medicaid provision in the bill that benefits Nebraska at the expense of other states.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 111th; bennelson; bhohealthcare; lawsuit; mcmaster
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1 posted on 01/01/2010 1:38:39 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Bring on the dogs!


2 posted on 01/01/2010 1:40:32 PM PST by prairiebreeze
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Stop your foolish meddling, Nelson. Stay out of it. You blew it. You coulda been a contender.


3 posted on 01/01/2010 1:40:54 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: maggief

HMMM. Lets say he drops that “deal” then what? He voted yes for nothin, Im not sure that isnt worse.


4 posted on 01/01/2010 1:41:12 PM PST by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: maggief

Call off the dogs? We’re just getting started, bozo. I hope the dogs are doberman’s as well, so they tear up the traitors to the american people real well. The real test will come with the upcoming elections, then we’ll see if there’s more “bite” vs. the bark to the citizen’s ire.


5 posted on 01/01/2010 1:41:32 PM PST by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: maggief

Bring those dogs on and file the lawsuits.


6 posted on 01/01/2010 1:41:59 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: maggief

“call off the dogs”

So, he was asking politely, eh...FUBN


7 posted on 01/01/2010 1:42:18 PM PST by jessduntno ("The system is working just as it should..." - Jan "The Man" Napolitano)
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To: maggief

Sorry Bennie! You are toast! “Who Let The Dogs Out! Woof! Woof! Woof!”


8 posted on 01/01/2010 1:42:26 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember in November! Throw all of the bums out!)
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To: maggief

And why would he do that? I don’t think the letter actually went far enough.


9 posted on 01/01/2010 1:42:28 PM PST by WHBates
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To: maggief



10 posted on 01/01/2010 1:42:49 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: maggief

Unleash the dogs of war.


11 posted on 01/01/2010 1:42:52 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: maggief

You have to be a disgustingy detached and arrogant poltician to tell an Attorney General to not do their job to check the constitutionality of something.

Listen Democrats...you have forever sunk to lows you will never escapefrom. You think you’re above the law,the constitution and the people. I will always resent the hell out of you liberals who have been busy destroying the fabric of this great nation. I will also be so ery happy when I retire from the military so I can run, effectively, against you where ever I can and set you back 100 years.


12 posted on 01/01/2010 1:43:25 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: maggief

Sen. Ben Nelson wants them to call of the dogs, he shouldn’t have put on his Milk Bone suit...


13 posted on 01/01/2010 1:43:30 PM PST by jessduntno ("The system is working just as it should..." - Jan "The Man" Napolitano)
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To: maggief

He can say what he wants. I for one am happy he is unhappy at the AG’s oversight and threat of lawsuit. The states have every right to investigate this, and other states have the right to file lawsuits over the constitutionality of this bill.


14 posted on 01/01/2010 1:44:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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15 posted on 01/01/2010 1:44:24 PM PST by Raycpa
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Nelson blew it by thinking that his little Medicare avoidance would be challenged. Who was it? Did Reid say, "hey vote our way and your State won't have to pay a dime?". Sure. It doesn't work that way. Nelson and Reid should've had the brains to realize that.

Bring on the legal challenges. Big surprise, Nelson.

16 posted on 01/01/2010 1:44:31 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: GoCards
Yeah, kind of difficult to put that genie back in the bottle. That vote can't be retracted and because of it they only needed 51 votes to pass the bill.

I hope the stupid btard chokes on his vote for the rest of his miserable life.
17 posted on 01/01/2010 1:44:35 PM PST by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: maggief

Give it a rest Nelson, you phony. You sold out for a big time payoff and you (and WE) know it. Who do you think you’re kidding? What the senate has done is thoroughly unconstitutional. Of course, never having READ the document, you wouldn’t KNOW that!


18 posted on 01/01/2010 1:44:44 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: maggief

They should prosecute with extreme prejudice. Nelson could end this by changing his vote. While we’re at it I’d love to see every crooked deal used to pass this POS exposed to the light of day.


19 posted on 01/01/2010 1:45:00 PM PST by YankeeReb (Pray for 0bama Psalm 109:8 ; May his days be short. May another take his office.)
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20 posted on 01/01/2010 1:45:01 PM PST by maggief
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