"Sanders.... had initially threatened to oppose any such bill without a public option. But as the bill moved toward a vote in late December, Sanders uncharacteristically muted his criticism and began privately lobbying Democratic leader Harry Reid on behalf of a pet cause.... Sanders eventually secured.... perk just for Vermont: $600 million to cover the state’s previous expansion of its Medicaid program.)"
I'm sure Bernie is a SAD EXCUSE for a SOCIALIST to the REST of the WORLD, but this is AmeriKan socialism!
"Sanders a growing force on the far, far left; Vermont senator is gathering clout as he takes on the Fed’s Bernanke" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Correspondent | January 9, 2010
WASHINGTON - The Senate may pride itself on a reputation as the world’s most exclusive deliberative body, but it is turning into just about the only place in America where a self-described socialist can wield raw power....
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Try PoS socialist.
His voice may finally be breaking through. Over 16 years in the House, his lonely crusades - which amount to a lifelong campaign to remake American capitalism and social policy - were usually received as little more than glitches in an otherwise well-functioning two-party system.
Is that the way the Globe hack sees our political system?
No wonder the newspapers are so shitty; they have their faces buried in the stuff!!!!
Since his 2006 election to the Senate, however, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has found that a junior senator’s single vote is enough to keep him in the middle of things.
But Joe the Zionist Jew exercises the REAL GATE-KEEPING POWER!
He has emerged as a one-man tea party within the Democratic ranks, an ideological purebred feeding on outsider anger while staying close enough to party leaders to win rewards for his loyalty....
Without the NEGATIVE CONNOTATION connected to the CONTROLLED-OPPOSITION RIGHT!!!
That's my "liberal," s***-fooley newspaper!
Sanders disappointed liberal allies who had counted on him to mount a one-man stand against the Democrats’ health care bill for omitting a public insurance plan.
Why is it LIBERALS are ALWAYS DISAPPOINTED?
Sanders, who had introduced an amendment to create a single-payer plan, had initially threatened to oppose any such bill without a public option.
But as the bill moved toward a vote in late December, Sanders uncharacteristically muted his criticism and began privately lobbying Democratic leader Harry Reid on behalf of a pet cause. “I didn’t have to twist his arm,’’ Sanders said.
Sanders eventually secured $10 billion to expand a national network of rural medical clinics that he calls “perhaps the most significant and least-known public health program in America.’’ (The Senate bill had one perk just for Vermont: $600 million to cover the state’s previous expansion of its Medicaid program.)
Now Sanders is working the backroom negotiations between House and Senate leaders, to defend his rural health funding and possibly win a further boost.
So JUST LIKE ALL the REST, this AmeriKan "socialist" is OUT FOR HIMSELF!!!
“He deep down believes he can change American politics,’’ said Larry Sanders, the senator’s older brother and a county councilor in Oxford, England, representing the Green Party....
As he OPERATES in the SAME FASHION?
Ron Paul shames you, Bernie!
This year, Sanders may settle on a fresh target: a proposed
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He is working with staff over the winter recess to determine the best way he can wield his senatorial clout to potentially disrupt a deal he fears could establish a new monopolistic media force. “I think in a democratic society, you don’t want one or two institutions controlling the flow of information,’’ said Sanders....
But THAT is WHAT WE HAVE and he doesn't seem to bothered.
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Oh, Bernie is Jewish, I see. So he doesn't notice the Zionist prism, does he?
A longtime critic of mainstream media, Sanders controls the flow of his own information....
Pffft.
Last year, Sanders began working with muckraking director Robert Greenwald on weekly Web videos designed to build a national constituency around his issues....
Has he seen Iraq for Sale or Rethink Afghanistan?
Maybe Bernie can get an ANTIWAR MOVEMENT GOING, huh?
“Bernie is one of the only voices that has the perspective to say ‘this is outrageous,’ and to say it with passion and intelligence,’’ said Greenwald, who previously cast Sanders as a talking head in the documentary “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism’’ (and in an uncredited cameo in the 1988 romantic comedy “ Sweet Hearts Dance,’’ alongside Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon)....
Notice how the agenda-pushing Globe kept the frame of reference within certain parameters and didn't mention the films I did?
Also see: http://rethinkafghanistan.com
Sanders has been waging a colorful war against economic policy makers well before YouTube was available as a repository for his screeds. At one 2003 House committee hearing, he sarcastically invited Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on a trip to Vermont so he could meet “real people.’’
When Greenspan said that American workers benefited from the world’s highest quality of life, Sanders corrected him in the language befitting a man raised in 1950s Brooklyn. “Wrong, mister,’’ Sanders said.
“You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care, and decent paying jobs.’’
In early December, Sanders placed a hold on Bernanke’s renomination, one of several, from both parties. In practical terms, they are unlikely to deny Bernanke....
Yeah, so Bernie looks butch but nothing changes, nothing gets done, and the s*** fooleys continue to roll.
“What I’m going to try to do with the opposition to Bernanke,’’ said Sanders, “is force a debate about a new philosophy on Wall Street which is not driven by greed and self-interest.’’
When Senate Republicans tried to slow Democrats from securing a health care vote before Christmas, they used parliamentary rules to demand a reading of all 767 pages of Sanders’s single-payer amendment. He went to the floor to begrudgingly withdraw the amendment, condemning the opposition for a “stalling tactic’’ that he said would “waste time.’’
This week, Sanders insisted that he could not be accused of the same tactic.
“My goal here is not to slow down anything,’’ said Sanders. “My goal is to defeat Bernanke.’’Then you have already failed:
"Bernanke’s confirmation doesn’t appear in doubt. Senator Christopher Dodd, chairman of the panel, predicted Bernanke will win confirmation."
So Bernie is a liar, too, huh?
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