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Ryan Grem aThe Huffpost

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:02:21 +0000

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Ryan Grim at Huffpost counters that the Daily News botched it more than Bernie. woerth a read. Though he does offer an interest thought:

(To be clear, I have my own view, that Sanders has shown himself to be a lousy manager of his staff on Capitol Hill over the years, which doesn’t bode well for a presidency, and has not shown much interest in organizing, or ability to organize coalitions within the House or the Senate to advance his agenda, outside of his audit-the-Fed legislation, and some improvements to Obamacare. That’s troubling, but it’s different than deciding he’s not serious and doesn’t know what he’s talking about.)

Nice try. NOT!

CVille Dem — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:28:11 +0000

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Nice try. NOT!

In the Upshot in the New York

HSG — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:22:48 +0000

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In the Upshot in the New York Times, Peter Eavis notes Yes, Bernie Sanders Knows Something About Breaking Up Banks. In referring to Sanders' comments to the NY Daily News Editorial Board discussed in this blog, Eavis writes in part:

Mr. Sanders is mostly cogent here. This is more or less how a breakup would work under his legislation. Doing what he outlines here would be far easier if Congress passed his breakup bill, or something like it. Mr. Sanders is on shaky ground if he thinks it would be easy to slash the size of the banks with Dodd-Frank alone. But, taking the interview as a whole, as well as his past positions, that does not appear to be the path he favors.

Eavis is a long-time financial journalist who's worked at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

So we have a choice, we can vote for the candidate whom the big banks fund or the one who will do whatever he can to defang them. I'm for defanging them.

I was surprised. I thought

CVille Dem — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:56:05 +0000

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I was surprised. I thought he didn't have a GOOD plan for his programs; it never occurred to me that he had NO plan.

Thanks for posting this. It

rmrd0000 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:34:34 +0000

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Thanks for posting this. It confirms what we suspected. Talk is cheap. Sanders could sit in Congress and be "pure" because his words were never going to be put to the test. He has no clue how to implement single-payer healthcare, free education, or control the banks.

I was hilarious when Trump said that he had not thought about abortion, because we knew that he wasn't a deep thinker.It is scary that Sanders has not thought deeply about the issues. I thought he knew that he couldn't get proposals passed. I never thought that he put no thought at all into his "revolution".

If everyone would read the

CVille Dem — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:37:02 +0000

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If everyone would read the NYDaily News interview with Bernie it might make them wonder if he has thought at all about how to implement his changes.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/transcript-bernie-sanders-meets-news-...

an excerpt about how he plans to break up the big banks:

Sanders: .....And I think that if somebody, like if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he would look at that. Forgetting even the risk element, the bailout element, and just look at the kind of financial power that these guys have, would say that is too much power.

Daily News: Okay. Well, let's assume that you're correct on that point. How do you go about doing it?

Sanders: How you go about doing it is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail.

Daily News: But do you think that the Fed, now, has that authority?

Sanders: Well, I don't know if the Fed has it. But I think the administration can have it.

Daily News: How? How does a President turn to JPMorgan Chase, or have the Treasury turn to any of those banks and say, "Now you must do X, Y and Z?"

Sanders: Well, you do have authority under the Dodd-Frank legislation to do that, make that determination.

Daily News: You do, just by Federal Reserve fiat, you do?

Sanders: Yeah. Well, I believe you do.

i don't get it. It's the first time anyone went past "why?" And actually asked "how?" And he was completely unprepared.d

Edited to add another excerpt: (and again for speaking error)

Daily News: Okay. You saw, I guess, what happened with Metropolitan Life. There was an attempt to bring them under the financial regulatory scheme, and the court said no. And what does that presage for your program?

Sanders: It's something I have not studied, honestly, the legal implications of that.

It's interesting to note that

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:02:30 +0000

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It's interesting to note that AIG won its case against the government for bailing it out (ok, for the harsh terms, though the inquisitors offered them equity back if they assumed risk - no dice) but was awarded no damages because it would have had $0 left anyway.

But trying to lord over a non-desperate bank can bite you in the ass - these are multibillion multinationals who understand the law and have good lawyers (David Boies?). One should, honestly, study the legal implications of that.

The math on why Bernie only

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:09:44 +0000

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The math on why Bernie only gains a 5 delegate advantage In Wisconsin in the best case.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/blogs/wisconsinvoter/374616281.htm

Nothing has happened of

Richard Day — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 02:10:01 +0000

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Nothing has happened of interest in Wisconsin since....

We shall endure with or without Hillary.

We shall not endure with a repub on the election in November.

But...

That's what I'm wondering.

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:52:01 +0000

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That's what I'm wondering. You start talking walls and people get bent out of shape....