USSenator Deb Fischer put on the spot on Obamacare and KXL by 17-year-old in her office this morning

[Omaha Steve]

From DUer Nancy Meyer Wednesday on her email.

This week our daughter Rachael is with her junior class on a Close-up school visit to Washington DC. This morning we had this text exchange:

R: Going to talk to our representatives and Deb Fischer. Anything to ask?"

Me: Ask why they want you to be on SCHIP health ins paid for by NE taxpayers instead of private health ins paid by your parents? You benefit from Obamacare.
(Rachael was born with a pre-existing condition that made her uninsurable until 2011 when Obamacare let us move her from SCHIP to our policy.)

Alan and I doubted she would speak up. We were wrong. A few minutes later:

R: Asked about Obamacare. Fischer said she wants to repeal it because thousands of people have told her they have worse health insurance because of it passing and 3 people have told her they have better. And only about a million people have signed up for it. ONLY. I also asked her about the Keystone pipeline, and she wouldn't answer. She just hohummed about how she was waiting on Obama to make a decision and he still hasn't. She wouldn't say her position and she seemed kind of clueless.

The Close-up program is so named because it gives HS students a chance to see what our federal government is all about first hand. I guess Rachael and her fellow students got a good look at one of Nebraska's sausage-makers this morning.

I'm convinced we need better representation.

NMeyer

[blue neen]

1. Very good.

It's amazing that a United States senator is so uninformed.

[Tx4obama]

4. A lot of Republicans are uninformed (or just plain stupid) even those in Congress. n/t

[Iliyah]

8. I'll go with the one in the (......)

[calimary]

12. They dine on a steady diet of Pox Noise, limbaugh & fiends, and kkkarl rove.

And for "research" they probably go to breitbart.com and newsman or some such mad-house horror-show.

[mtasselin]

11. No

Most have no idea about TPP, but still support it until you tell them how bad it is.

[Cha]

18. Or lying?

[rgbecker]

2. I hope your daughter told her to make that 4.

Great to have the kids see just what is going on. Seems your daughter is better informed than most. Thanks Mom and Dad.

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. We have a race for an open governorship and an open Senate seat

Only one Dem is in each race, and they are not speaking as of yet, because there is no primary, per se.

Regrettably, there is a GOP primary, and I have no idea how one can tell the candidates apart. All claim to be "True Conservatives" (whatever the Hell that means), "Pro 2nd Amendment", "Pro-life", and all vow to fight/repeal Obamacare.

So Fischer's response to the ACA and the KXL are no surprise. I'd bet the "thousands" is actually about a dozen, and I'm betting that those who benefited from the ACA in the Cornhusker State aren't her constituency.

[thesquanderer]

5. She has to find out Obama's position on the keystone pipeline...

...so that she knows which position to take to be on the opposite side.

[SoapBox]

6. Wow...another D.C. maroon.

Idiot.

[Hulk]

7. Could say the very same about mine, jamie herrera-butler

The repuKKKes look for a pretty face and an empty head. Yup, get a female on our side of the aisle, forget that they have the common sense of a donkey or the worldly knowledge of a third grader. I am so disgusted with having someone represent me that is dumber than a box of rocks. Sweet Jesus, how can this happen to an educated nation? Sad, really sad.

[pangaia]

9. Educated nation?

Who dat?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. "She wouldn't say her position and she seemed kind of clueless."

Welcome to rural America's perfect Republican DC politician, where babbling a bunch of shit about loving God, guns and hating libruls is all you need to win.

[Tsiyu]

16. "I'm waiting to see what Obama does"

"and what ever that is, I'll be against it."

[NewJeffCT]

13. and this woman beat Bob Kerrey by 17 points

amazing.

[mdbl]

14. Thats cuz conservative idiots stick together!

[progressoid]

17. Amazing. And depressing. n/t

[Cha]

19. What a sad sad shame.. the brainwashed against themselves are so

irretrievably gone.

[AlbertCat]

15. So.... she wants to repeal it because of....

..... anecdotal evidence ????..... that probably wasn't accurately reported anyway??????