Tornado Alley (PROG)

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F6 on reading "But there’s another explanation for the botched prediction:" there was an instant
notion .. well, maybe just because they didn't consider the possibility of the conservative side
of the bench being too stuck in their ideological conservatism to be able to fulfill their
constitutional responsibility responsibly .. yup .. yours confirms the thought .. thank you ..

Aside: is there anyone else out there who never knew/can't recall exactly what the 'Cornhusker Kickback' was?

Nebraska Compromise

The Nebraska Compromise or Cornhusker Kickback refers to a deal made in December 2009 by United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to Nebraska’s Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, allegedly in order to secure his vote as the last Democratic hold-out for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and provide the Democrats with the required 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. Concessions that were said to have been granted included a provision allowing states to restrict funding for abortions under certain circumstances, as well as a provision giving Nebraska 100 percent federal funding of the Medicaid expansion indefinitely into the future.

Ben Nelson had earlier threatened to filibuster with Republicans when language
he proposed to restrict federal funding of abortion was not added to the Bill.

Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a Democrat, said that the deal was not unusual, and that states often received individualized treatment based on the priorities of their representatives. Three months prior to the Nebraska Compromise, Reid secured within the health care bill 100 percent funding for Medicaid in Nevada.

Eventually, a later version of the bill gave all states 100 percent funding for the first three years of the Medicaid expansion, with the exception of the above provision made for Nebraska. For all other states the costs would be about 15 cents on every $1 they receive from the federal government.

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 repealed and removed the deal. Nelson voted against the
reconciliation bill, however it was able to pass without his vote since reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Compromise

My sense is the two longer bold bits above [mine] are not given much media attention,
as all i read about is possible financial problems for the states over an increased
Medicaid bill, without the financial help the states get in the ACA being mentioned.

I miss a lot of what you guys get, of course, so that thought could be off-the-mark.