Calls his Senate colleague Ben Nelson "Un-Nebraskan"

Republican Senator Mike Johanns was quoted yesterday highly critical of his colleague Ben Nelson's decision to trade his vote for a bribe for the State. Nelson got what ammounted to $100 million for Nebraska paid for by the Federal Government for future Medicare payments, in exchange for his "Yes" vote on the Health Care package.

Nebraska's Republican Governor John Heineman said yesterday, that he would "absolutely" oppose the State taking the money, which he said amounted to a bribe.

Nelson is receiving condemnation statewide from all quarters for his vote trade. Even the liberal press in Omaha have been running cartoons lampooning him, and lambasting him in editorials.

From Politico.com, this morning:

“We don’t like that,” Johanns, also a former governor, said in an interview. “We just think that’s so un-Nebraskan. You know, we live out there on the prairie. It’s hot in the summer. It’s cold in the winter, and we’re kind of less-government sort of people. We don’t want a special deal.”

Johanns continued:

“This violated our sense of ethics.”