It is hard for me to believe that Sanders and Warren really expressed desire to become Labor and

[still_one]

and Treasury Secretary respectively

To me that smells like a right wing distortion

Both Sanders and Warren realize the importance of their presence in the Senate, and the risk it imposes with their republican governors

[Layzeebeaver]

1. I agree - just ignore it

I'm going to ignore this soundbite. You are likely correct that it is RW talking points to cause concern.

[janterry]

2. Our Governor in Vermont

has promised to replace Sanders with a Democrat-Affiliated Independent - if he were appointed to a position in the Biden administration.


"I want this to be fair," he [Gov. Scott] said, noting that he has filled past vacancies in the state legislature with appointees of the same party as outgoing members. "So in this case, again, Sen. Sanders has caucused with the Democrats. I would anticipate I would look at ... a more left-leaning type of independent that would obviously caucus with the Democrats."

There is no way Scott will do anything that would jeopardize the Democrats or do something 'underhanded'. It's just not how politics is done in the state

[onetexan]

3. VT GOP gov is NOT trustworthy. Look at his wording "Look at". Baloney.

Both Elizabeth & Bernie need to stay in the senate where they are needed. Their states have GOP governors whom we know damn well they will appoint GOP candidates to those senate roles if these 2 were vacated. We would lose our Senate majority. Too dangerous.

[janterry]

5. You don't know our state

I mean that nicely. It's not like that, here.

[lagomorph777]

15. Every Republican is corrupt. Projecting a trustworthy image to trick Biden would be expected.

We can't fall for their tricks.

No Senators in the Cabinet from GOP-governor states. Period.

[Whiskeytide]

6. I know you genuinely believe that, and in...

... the past it may have been a dependable notion. But no longer. Republican politicians simply cannot be trusted or taken at their word. As long as they remain affiliated with that party (as it exists today at least), they should be considered irredeemably corrupt and morally bankrupt. That is the badge they have voluntarily pinned on themselves.

[janterry]

7. No one in Vermont

would say anything else

[onetexan]

8. Bingo!

[Demsrule86]

12. Those are weasel words. He can't be trusted.

[Buckeyeblue]

4. I would think at this point in their political careers they'd rather be in the Senate

They have more freedom to push legislation and make comments. In the cabinet, you are basically working for the president.

[DFW]

9. Ask Jeff Sessions if he's still happy he left the Senate to become Trump's Attorney General

Or if he now wishes he had stayed on as a U.S.Senator, instead of now being nothing.

[SMC22307]

10. Agree completely. Also hard to believe that...

some on this site are pushing the narrative for whatever reasons and others are falling for it.

[pecosbob]

11. This is pretty much the kind of thing we always get from The Hill, or Politico, etc.

Dems are concerned and divided. Anytime you see Warren, Sanders, AOC, etc attached to a story you can pretty much drop it in the wastebin as GOP enablers' propaganda. Follow the money.

[PJMcK]

13. How about Biden/Harris wins the election first?

Stop counting chickens.

It's premature to start planning the Biden Administration.

Winning the election is all that count right now. After the dust settles, let's see where we (hopefully) are and what we face.

I'm feeling confident about a big Democratic victory, too. But let's not get out over our skis.

[MaryMagdaline]

14. Agree. Sounded like a scare tactic to keep people from voting for Biden

A RW acquaintance was the first to bring it up.

[Hortensis]

16. Btw, Warren reminds us that tomorrow we leave the Paris Climate Agreement.

Link to tweet

Biden may well need Warren in the senate even more than in his cabinet or heading up a special project, but she'll be very valuable wherever she is.

I don't believe Biden could give Sanders a cabinet position. Sanders has no history of accomplishment and no experience in running a large institution, he's astonishingly ignorant for a man in his position of how to use government to achieve progress, he tends to rely on magical thinking for how he'd accomplish his claimed goals if he were ever required to come through, and he differs ideologically from almost everyone, disrespects all who don't fall in line with him (virtually everyone), and can't play well with others. His vote in the senate is his big value.

Whenever people lump the two together as if they weren't extremely different, it's likely the RW's up to its usual smearing.

[still_one]

17. If we win, there is no doubt that Biden will rejoin the Paris Accords, and your assessment

regarding the Senate is right on

[Hortensis]

18. Yes to rejoining the Accord. SO much at stake.