WTF is wrong with Bernie Sanders? Seriously.

Better to have all your bagmen in a single, easily controllable political entity.

even when you don't use the little dealey.

Well, it might be late on a Friday night but it ain't that late.

bill included Senator Merkley's crowdfunding amendment, which Senator Sanders voted for.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002457389

Still, they both voted against the final bill.

article outlining the provisions.

"Does this mean you favor the bill?"

...I see the flaws in the bill. Do I think it has the potential Senator Sanders decribed? Frankly no. A lot of the opposition was to the House version. The fact that, per the Merkley amendment, investors with incomes or net worth less than $100,000 are limited to 5 percent of their income and must be provided information helps. Senator Reeds amendment would have added more protection, but it was filibusted by Republicans.



http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00051

The bill will likely end up in conference, which means there is time to fix it.

Everyone should contact their members of Congress.

Still, given that there is a massive package of regulation still being implemented, I doubt it will have the devastating impact being predicted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002464969

We need Obama's Boiler Room Legalization Act to pass ASAP. Granny's got too much cash on the sidelines and Brantforth needs a new Ferrari.

Hey.... they can fix it later...

like the Health Care bill


right?

Of course neither are most of the ACTUAL Democrats.

Actually Bernie Sanders is more of a Democrat than the actual Democrats...

with such Democratic Senate luminaries as Mike Mansfield, Frank Church and J. William Fulbright.

One of only two Senators voting against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which authorized the Vietnam War.

I didn't remember hearing about him, so I looked him up and found that the Oregon Senator had, indeed, been staunchly anti-war since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Ironically, he lost his next re-election bid to Republican Bob Packwood in part due to his opposition to continue funding the war..

he's certainly not practical.

Shameful! Bought and paid for. Money is speech, money talks. They weren't kidding.

heard rumors - unconfirmed - that Sanders thinks Social Security benefits should not be slashed.

What's he smoking?

It must not be very pragmatic for the rest of us to chip in so much to keep cold people warm any more, what with those banks and wars to to save and all, so they had to cut that back. Heck, that probably saved a whole truck. Or maybe a Maserati.

But somewhere deep down inside I am glad he got the money from the state for heating assistance. It was his campaigning that got it restored.

catch him every Friday on Thom Hartmann's Brunch With Bernie, ET 3 PM

He knows Sanders is right.

Too dry sometimes, sorry!

Bernie is A-OK!

What few dollars we can cough up for this election cycle - they'll all be going to the likes of Sanders, Grayson, Warren, Grihalva and the like. No more for the DCCC, the president or ANY of those fakers that carry a D next to their names. It's only the progressive warriors that hear the will of the folks back home.

Instead of (D) & (R), the new letters should be (C) & (CL) for Corporate and Corporate Light.

from time to time...

Thanks for the kind words.

from an insider (once retired) giving Wall Street a little truth and justice... would drive everyone to call a halt to this nonsense, you'd like to think people can understand... Does it actually have to get THAT bad for people to see what has been going on and on?

This craziness must stop.

"Only in Washington could Wall Street deregulation be sold as job creation. And on the very same day, a bill to stop malevolent use of confidential Congressional information failed to include Wall Street—the biggest offender—in the prohibition. It’s their world, and we’re just living in it."

what will these commies do next!

If it is, there's no way in hell they can be trusted with the task of managing the nation's jobs, and it is stupidly self-destructive to ask them to.

If it isn't, then ALEC isn't really a problem at all, it's just a more effective way of corporations managing the job market.

They aren't big fans of Sanders over there. Apparently he's a 'technofascist disguised as a liberal' (that's an actual quote):

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/

Pretty shocking to see anyone accuse Bernie of being a sellout to military contractors. Man, if they don't approve of Bernie, who do they approve of? They do make the hard to dispute point that "he’s done little to constrain their [the super-rich] power and influence." But who, in the last 40 years, has?

I don't know. But I'm pretty sure Patrick Cockburn has a crush on Muqtada al-Sadr.

Thomas H. Naylor is Founder of the Second Vermont Republic and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University.

You gotta hand it to Bernie. He must have had a million opportunities to sell out, too.

if the DLC and Thridway had not taken over the democratic party.

Senator Sanders is about the only one in Congress worth supporting any more, the rest are mostly corporate whores.

...the party I'd still be a democrat.

Sometimes I imagine what the country would be like if we had lots of senators like Sanders.

the GOP with their allies the 'moderate' dems have made the progress caucus a minor player with no ability to really effect any legislation.

really?
case you haven't noticed he "whines" for both you and me


remember..you get what you settle for

In February, Common Cause wrote to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, asking for an explanation about an apparently unreported $1,350 gift from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in 2009. Cantor’s office immediately responded, claiming our inquiry was without foundation, but last week his office quietly amended his financial disclosures to include the gift from ALEC.

At that time, I wrote about Cantor’s failure to disclose:

‘ALEC, the so-called “free market, small government” lobby group underwritten by some of the nation’s largest corporations, reported in its tax filings for 2008 and 2009, making “cash grants” to the recipients of several annual awards. Common Cause has identified 22 legislators who received ALEC awards in those two years, including Rep. Cantor, who ALEC records indicate received $1,350 in 2009 as part of their Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award.’

Cantor responded within hours, saying no cash changed hands, but that he received a bust of Thomas Jefferson from ALEC, pictured above. But, under House Ethics Rules this type of award can only be received by a Member of Congress if it is disclosed, which Cantor did not do. This appears to be a clear ethics violation, and we have asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate. Prompted by Common Cause, Cantor has now very quietly amended his 2009 Financial Disclosure Report to include the ALEC gift. He also amended his 2010 report to include another bust given to him by the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group. We had no idea about this second award, but now we do.

Cantor’s relationship with ALEC really does matter. They are a highly prominent lobby group, with a clear and unambiguous agenda to advance their corporate funder’s interests, which includes advocating for Congressional action. So they actively seek the ear of leading politicians like Cantor, hoping that he will go to bat for them (and their corporate clients) in Congress. Of course Cantor knows why ALEC courts him, and although I am positive he would say he listens to all sides before making policy decisions, ultimately only an informed electorate can decide how much influence ALEC has on elected officials—which is why these public disclosures are so important!http://www.commonblog.com/2012/03/16/cantor-quietly-acknowledges-failing-to-report-alec-gift/

ALEC's 'Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award' WITH cash award attached?

Who says rethuglicans don't have a sense of humor?

or in a current reincarnation as Bernie Sanders.

The gops take Orwell to the max.

Go Bernie Go.

k/r!

Poison pill in Medicare, Part D, must pay cost plus for drugs.

Poison pill in the Post Office bill, Ten years to fund 75 years of pension benefits.

Bernie Sanders says it as it really is, always.

Wall Street needs to be HEAVILY regulated not DEregulated!

If we could clone him and fill the house with Bernies then "we the people" would actually mean something instead of its empty meaning today. Sen Sanders is one of the few great Senators in history. He can't be bought.

Bernie is opposed to cloning human beings.

-- Mal

a jobs bill...and for this they worked together to pass it. Bastards!

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

is to offend the gods so much that they leave Wall Street and return to Mt. Olympus in disgust, leaving us to suffer our fate without the beneficence of their invisible hands in our pockets.

What can you say? The guy's got Integrity.

apparently also the only way to speak the unspeakable

what's wrong with that?