A while back I called his D.C. office and got into a long drawn out conversation with one of his staff members over Cass Sunstein.
As a reminder (Just like Sotomayor) Ben said two days prior to voting for Sunstein to go to debate that he had great reservations about him.
Ben voted to bring him up for debate after saying that. Then after debate voted against his nomination as regulatory Czar. I believe that Bens initial vote was designed to get Sunstein to debate knowing damn well that he could then vote no, save his own ass here in Nebraska and the rest of the Senate would vote him in.
Moving on.....During that conversation I was told that Nelson would always vote to bring someone up for a vote of the Senate. Soooo I asked ...What if the person being voted on was a hard core communist that advocted the overthrow of our government and our freedom, would Ben still vote to bring them up for a vote? The staffer said..... Mr. Nelson would still vote to bring him up for a vote of the full Senate.
Our conversation was over at that point. Nothing more to say.
Sad