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If Bernie Sanders become Senate Majority leader, a lot of the Republicans scams would dead on DOA. Harry Reid is too weak to too hold this position, Bernie Sanders has the balls to be the Senate majority leader if Dems retain the senate.
Mitch McConnell could not deal with Bernie Sanders as majority leader. It is that simple. They pee in their pants if they had to deal with Bernie Sanders as Senate Majority leader.
The Dems just need to control the Senate and put Bernie Sanders as a majority leader. Than the Republicans will have to face reality.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)committees before but the Third Way neutered them. Will this be different? Sorry for the cynicism.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)And oh yeah, Bernie Sanders? All those people are committee or subcommittee chairs, most of them for more than one.
Also, the claim that somehow Bernie Sanders as Senate Majority Leader would neuter the Republicans is simply not true.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)we could not do (as far as investigating or doing anything about constitutional matters about Bush). But everybody seemed to think something would be done.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)And FR and the talking heads at Fox and rw hate radio would spontaneously combust.
I'm not seeing a downside to that.
BumRushDaShow
(127,317 posts)just caucuses with them.
If anyone, Durbin is bucking for that job.
provis99
(13,062 posts)But at least he admits he is a corporate whore.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Sanders could be minority leader by a couple of votes. Bernie will need to keep people like Manchin on board. Bernie would have to negotiate as much as Reed is having to negotiate.
I see many progressives that, for some reason, think that having a majority of holding an office equates to a dictatorship where the majority or office holders can do whatever the fuck they want. Democracy does not work as some progressives dream that it does.
hack89
(39,171 posts)is there some populist ground wave I am not aware of?
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)How about Franken or Klobuchar?
RZM
(8,556 posts)Usually it's somebody who's been there a while and has experience in the leadership. I'm guessing it usually goes to people who have been planning for a shot at it for years. The next one will probably be Dick Durbin, who, as mentioned in this thread, has been working his way up in the leadership for a long time.