{"id":1211,"date":"2015-08-12T03:12:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraska.precisionnewmedia.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:12:26","slug":"is-ben-sasse-a-radical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskademocrats.org\/es\/blog\/is-ben-sasse-a-radical\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ben Sasse A Radical?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska’s Congressional Republicans have long been very conservative and responsive to the demands of their party bosses and the out of state special interests who fund their campaigns. \u00a0Moreover, since the rise of the Tea Party in 2009, those same Nebraska Republicans have generally given into the demands of this group and done things such as vote for the misguided 2013 government shutdown. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is truly new and different is\u00a0Ben Sasse’s descent into sheer radicalism. \u00a0Some of the positions he took during campaign 2014 and some of the votes he has made this year can certainly lead a fair observer to draw the conclusion that Sasse isn’t just an ordinary, garden variety right wing Republican. \u00a0He is a radical and an extremist.<\/p>\n

We began to see some hints of Sasse’s radicalism during the 2013-14 campaign cycle. \u00a0 When Sasse announced his Senate bid in early October 2013, he made the silly prediction that: “If\u00a0the Affordable Care Act survives, America will cease to exist.” \u00a0Since Mr. Sasse made that ridiculous prognostication, the U.S. economy has created an average of 237,000 new jobs every month. \u00a0This is the best job growth in the U.S. since the economic boom during the second term of the Clinton Administration.<\/p>\n

Sasse doubled down on his fierce opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), when he came out against ending the harmful government shutdown aimed at repealing the ACA and cancelling millions of insurance policies. \u00a0(The GOP government shutdown cost the economy $24 billion and 120,000 jobs.) \u00a0Sasse told the Omaha World Herald that he\u00a0would have voted against the compromise funding bill that reopened the government. \u00a0In other words, if Sasse had gotten his way, the government would still be shutdown or 17 million Americans would have been deprived of health insurance coverage.<\/p>\n

During the 2014 primary cycle, Sasse was endorsed by some of the most extreme and contentious Republicans. \u00a0Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Senator\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0both provided Sasse with crucial endorsements before the primary. \u00a0Palin is known for – among other things – perpetrating the lie that the ACA contained death panels. \u00a0This allegation by Palin was deemed by the non-partisan fact checker\u00a0Politifact.com<\/a>\u00a0to be the “lie of the year” in 2009.<\/p>\n

Cruz’s support of Sasse’s Senate bid was equally troubling. \u00a0It was Senator Cruz who convinced the radicals in the House of Representatives to shut down the government in 2013 over the ACA. \u00a0Moreover, Cruz once said: “I don\u2019t think what Washington needs is more compromise.”<\/p>\n

Shortly after his inauguration as a U.S. Senator, Sasse began to demonstrate that he shares Cruz’s disdain for compromise. \u00a0As early as March, Sasse joined his fellow Nebraska Republicans in voting to shutdown the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during a time of war and when the U.S. was being threatened by terrorist attacks. \u00a0This was a deeply irresponsible vote because counter-terrorism experts contended that a shutdown of DHS would result in a slower and weaker response to a terrorist attack – if one were to occur.<\/p>\n

Shortly upon the heels of Sasse’s vote to weaken the U.S. response to terrorism, Nebraska’s junior Senator joined\u00a0Deb Fischer\u00a0and 45 other Senate Republicans in writing a letter directly to Iran’s Mullahs in an attempt to sabotage the efforts of the U.S. and five other world powers to negotiate an agreement placing limits on Iran’s nuclear program. \u00a0If Sasse had succeeded in this attempt, the international sanctions regime against Iran would have collapsed and it would have accelerated Iran’s quest to develop a nuclear weapon. \u00a0Moreover, this kind of result would’ve made war with Iran all but inevitable.<\/p>\n

Sasse isn’t just a threat to stability in the Middle East, he also poses a threat to the ability of Nebraska’s senior citizens to see their doctors. \u00a0This is because in April Sasse voted against the Medicare doctor fix – which passed the Senate by a 92-8 margin. \u00a0This bill passed\u00a0less than three hours before federal officials would have reduced payments to health-care providers by 21%. \u00a0If that had occurred, many doctors and health care providers would’ve refused to treat senior citizens. \u00a0Moreover, the passage of this legislation was hailed by members of Congress in both parties as a bi-partisan triumph. \u00a0Yet Sasse rejected this important compromise and sided with some of the most extreme members of the U.S. Senate including\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0and\u00a0Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n

Sasse no solo se ha opuesto a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica para las personas mayores, incluso ha votado en contra de la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica para nuestros veteranos. El mes pasado, Sasse vot\u00f3 con otros 3 senadores extremistas en contra de un proyecto de ley que habr\u00eda mantenido abiertos los hospitales de veteranos. El proyecto de ley para brindar atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica a nuestros veteranos fue aprobado por un margen de 91-4. Incluso el senador Fischer vot\u00f3 a favor. La Administraci\u00f3n de Veteranos hab\u00eda indicado que podr\u00eda tener que comenzar a cerrar hospitales si el Congreso se hubiera negado a aprobar este proyecto de ley. A pesar de las altas apuestas involucradas en esta legislaci\u00f3n, Sasse vot\u00f3 para cerrar los hospitales de veteranos. El Omaha World Herald inform\u00f3 que un "portavoz de Sasse declin\u00f3 hacer comentarios sobre lo que el senador hubiera preferido que hiciera el Congreso".<\/p>\n

It is evident that\u00a0Ben Sasse\u00a0is a radical and doesn’t share Nebraska values. \u00a0He has rejected compromise and aligned himself with the most extreme members of the Republican Party. \u00a0These extremists that Sasse associates with reject the Progressive accomplishments of the 20th century. \u00a0 These radicals are willing to blow up Washington, D.C, \u00a0to achieve their goals of repealing Social Security, Medicare and even veterans’ health programs.<\/p>\n

We as Democrats need to spread the word that\u00a0Ben Sasse\u00a0simply isn’t one of us. \u00a0He is a dangerous extremist who will resort to just about any tactic to achieve his ends. \u00a0What makes him especially dangerous is that he comes across as a pleasant and reasonable person. \u00a0Don’t be fooled. \u00a0And don’t let your friends and neighbors be fooled either. \u00a0Sasse is a very different kind of Republican. \u00a0 And that’s not good.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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