{"id":3294,"date":"2009-12-24T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/johanns-we-nebraskans-dont-want-a-special-deal\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:24:00","slug":"johanns-we-nebraskans-dont-want-a-special-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/johanns-we-nebraskans-dont-want-a-special-deal.php","title":{"rendered":"Johanns, We Nebraskans &quot;don&#8217;t want a special deal&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/SzN3nimRctI\/AAAAAAAAI4A\/CvWHH0PULog\/s1600-h\/MikeJohanns.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c633c_MikeJohanns.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Calls his Senate colleague Ben Nelson \"Un-Nebraskan\"<\/strong><\/p><p>Republican Senator Mike Johanns was quoted yesterday highly critical of his colleague Ben Nelson's decision to trade his vote for a bribe for the State. Nelson got what ammounted to $100 million for Nebraska paid for by the Federal Government for future Medicare payments, in exchange for his \"Yes\" vote on the Health Care package.  <\/p><p>Nebraska's Republican Governor John Heineman said yesterday, that he would \"absolutely\" oppose the State taking the money, which he said amounted to a bribe.  <\/p><p>Nelson is receiving condemnation statewide from all quarters for his vote trade.  Even the liberal press in Omaha have been running cartoons lampooning him, and lambasting him in editorials.<\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1209\/30947_Page2.html\">Politico.com<\/a>, this morning:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t like that,&rdquo; Johanns, also a former governor, said in an interview. &ldquo;We just think that&rsquo;s so un-Nebraskan. You know, we live out there on the prairie. It&rsquo;s hot in the summer. It&rsquo;s cold in the winter, and we&rsquo;re kind of less-government sort of people. We don&rsquo;t want a special deal.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Johanns continued:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;This violated our sense of ethics.&rdquo; <\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c633c_7828681836623105417-2160564639311818121?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls his Senate colleague Ben Nelson \"Un-Nebraskan\"Republican Senator Mike Johanns was quoted yesterday highly critical of his colleague Ben Nelson's decision to trade his vote for a bribe for the State. Nelson got what ammounted to $100 million for Nebraska &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/johanns-we-nebraskans-dont-want-a-special-deal.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}