Senator Ben Nelson (R) doesn't know who Paul Krugman is.

[Baikonour]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/09/ben-nelson-responds-to-pa_n_165396.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yopN6BHd4m0

[TwilightGardener]

1. Constant embarrassment from this man. He's really out of his depth

in the Senate--not exactly a deep thinker, that Waterboard-loving Helmet Head.

[Baikonour]

2. As someone commented on HuffPo:

"Never trust a man with a face bigger than his head."

[mnhtnbb]

3. When we moved from Nebraska in 2000 I said they should change the state motto.

It should be "Ignorant and proud of it".

[PA Democrat]

4. He was on with Rachel Maddow last night and I found him repulsive

and disturbingly ignorant. He was against money in the stimulus package for schools because he was afraid of "more unfunded mandates." Then he kept obsessing about special education. He said he had problems with special eduction legislation because it was an unfunded mandate, but it was clear that this caveman was against special education spending period. Ugh.

He also LOVES tax cuts, making me wonder if this guy is confused about that D after his name. He's more of a Republican than some of the more moderate Republicans.

[Baikonour]

5. Rachel had this buffoon on?

Ugh, what the hell is happening to her.

[PA Democrat]

7. She asked him some tough questions which he failed to answer

in a coherent fashion. He did not do his political career any favors by being on her show. Rachel had Barbara Boxer on immediately after Nelson. What a breath of fresh air!

[NorthCarolina]

8. She was purposely exposing him for the idiot he is. Kudos to Rachel

I simply LOVE her show.

[TwilightGardener]

6. I didn't see it, but everything that comes out of Ben's mouth--

I mean EVERYTHING--is designed to keep him re-elected by the Nebraska GOPers. He speaks their language, not the language of the Democratic party. We're lucky that he often votes with the D's, for the most part.

[poverlay]

9. They're all stupid like that. What I want to know is between these two Senators, which one does

the DU community think looks, and acts, more like a creepy pedophile: Boehner or L. Graham?
Those two creep me out so bad that my own horrific pervert of a terrorist Boosh butt plug: Jon Kyl, is starting to look good to me.

I digress. It's a fair bet that Nelson only reads what Vile Rushycontin tells him to, and Krugman has nowhere near enough pictures and hate,(and pictures OF hate) to interest the likes of Rush, Hannity et al.

[TahitiNut]

10. Ben Nelson doesn't know shit from Shinola.

That's why his shoes smell so bad. :puke:

[LaPera]

11. Amazingy dumb is Nelson...Krugman is one of the absolute best.

Love his writing and his politics.

[Thrill]

12. lol Ben Nelson is a Democrat. But I get the point