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    Bernie Is Planning on Bringing the Heat

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 2:14pm |

     

    Did anyone catch this yesterday?

    October 24, 2016 - WaPo

    Sanders is prepared to be a liberal thorn in Clinton’s side

    BURLINGTON, Vt. — Sen. Bernie Sanders, a loyal soldier for Hillary Clinton since he conceded the Democratic presidential nomination in July, plans to push liberal legislation with like-minded senators with or without Clinton’s support if she is elected — and to aggressively oppose appointments that do not pass muster with the party’s left wing.

    --snip--

    Sanders said he considers it his job “to demand that the Democratic Party implement that platform.”

     

    And as I've posted somewhere on the intertubes...

     

    This is what the Democratic process is all about...

    ~OGD~

    Comments

    He's paid his dues. Any Hillary knows how to keep score.


    by Flavius on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 9:19pm

    So, does that mean he will vote with Teabaggers if things are not pure enough?  I sure hope not.


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 10:33pm

    I hope he does but it's not just about the president. It still takes at least 50 votes in the senate and 218 votes in the house before the president gets to decide to sign or veto a bill. That's the thing Sanders never seems to realize or consider. By all reports he never seemed to be very good at getting the rest of the democratic senators behind him. Too pure to compromise.


    by ocean-kat on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 11:05pm

    Despite their agreement on so much policy, Liz Warren never did endorse Sanders in the primary -- a fact which enraged True Progressives, especially when he failed to take Massachusetts.  She didn't endorse Clinton, but she also didn't attack her.

     

    My theory, based on absolutely no inside information:  Having observed Sanders in the Senate as a colleague, Warren decided he'd make a piss-poor chief executive officer for the country, while Clinton, despite their policy differences, is someone Warren can work with, and someone who plays well with others.


    by Janicket on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 1:15am

    Ocean-Kat... Uh . . .

    By all reports he never seemed to be very good at getting the rest of the democratic senators behind him.

    With 13.4 million primary voters... and the majority of them younger people... their activity may help sway some of those other democratic senators to listen up when Bernie pontificates.

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 7:46pm

    Bernie's only historical success has been being a thorn in Hillary's side. Why stop now?

    And he better push liberal legislation with unlikeminded senators and congressmen or nothing will ever pass.


    by NCD on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 9:21pm

    Ducky, God Bless Bernie.

    This is a gooooooooood thing.

    Keeps Hillary honest and the issues before the public.

    IT'S ALL GOOOOOOOD.


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 1:01pm

    Hey Dick. . . Yup!

    And really... who can read the future?

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 7:36pm

    This thing just came into my dead head. hahaha

    Bernie will be our Socratic Gadfly; but Hillary will never give him the option of exile or hemlock. ahhhahhahaah

    ​Trump would not even give Bernie an option. hahahah

    Yeah Bernie. We might be reading about you a thousand years from now.

    We need gadflies.

    Newt and Rush and Rudy and a host of others think they are gadflies.

    But in the end, they are all just flies screwing up our picnics.

    the end

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 9:05pm