No public option in the health care reform bill even after overwhelming support by the populace

plus:   Nelson Nebraska Medicaid deal

plus:   no repeal of the antitrust exemption enjoyed by the insurance industry

plus:   potential scrapping of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (according to Dodd)

plus:   a 29.9 percent APR for credit cards that could have been prevented had Congress set an immediate start date for the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights instead of allowing the banks, after being bailed out by the taxpayers, to game the system and gouge the very taxpayers responsible for their continued existence.

plus:  the refusal of banks to negotiate with homeowners regarding their mortgages thereby forcing them into bankruptcy even after receiving stimulus dollars.

plus:   Pharma deal

plus:   10 percent unemployment rate

plus:   a state that already has universal health care therefore does not want to pay for subsidizing other states sweetheart deals negotiated behind closed doors.

plus:  a poor Democratic candidate (qualified and very capable potential Senator but a bad campaigner)

EQUALS:   Politics as usual with a Big Insurance and corporate controlled Congress that is tone-deaf to the populace resulting in a hostile vote against the Democratic majority in a liberal stronghold.