Nebraska governor to Ben Nelson: Kill the bill

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - No pressure, as Brian Faughnan points out; it’s not like Nebraskans hate ObamaCare or anything. (Oh, wait, yes they do.) Governor Dave Heineman called the bill “bad news for Nebraskans” and urged Nelson to block a vote on it:

The governor said Wednesday that a new analysis by Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services indicates that while state spending on Medicaid, the health care system for the poor, would be less in the first three years after the bill took effect, Nebraska, after six years, would have $45 million in extra expenses.

“America’s health care system needs improvement, but this bill is not the answer,” Heineman said in a letter to Nelson. “You are now the 60th vote, and as Governor of the State that we both represent, I urge you to vote against this bill and against cloture.”

This just gives Nelson a little more incentive to stick to his guns on abortion. In fact, Heineman may have intended this as a lifeline to Nelson to give him a handy excuse for remaining stubborn. Besides, Nelson has more objections to the ObamaCare Rump bill than just the fact that it will use federal monies to fund abortions for the first time ever...