When is comes the Auto Bail-out, Bernie was "for it before he was against it"

[Freddie Stubbs]

He initially voted for the auto bail-out, but voted against the bill which funded it because he thought that is was more important to stick it to bankers than it was to rescue the auto industry.

[JaneyVee]

1. Ideological purity often leads to gridlock and stagnation.

Amendments are added by both party's in a representative govt and each side hopes the outcome serves the greater good.

[Punkingal]

2. Right-wing talking point...thanks for reviving that.

[mwooldri]

3. He also knew how many votes the measure had.

The Senate needs 60 votes to shut off debate, then 51 votes to pass the measure on round 2.

I have no idea how to dig around a voting record to that level of detail but I bet there are times when there was a Democratic majority in the Senate that Bernie voted to end debate but ultimately flipped on the final vote to record his reservations in a symbolic way.

[bobbobbins01]

4. Bernie was right.

As he usually is. The problem seems to be these omnibus bills that politically dishonest people use as gotchas. Yet another example of the busted system that some of us are trying to fix. But keep playing your games while real people get hurt.

[Snotcicles]

14. +1.nt

[Hoyt]

5. Fortunately, other members of Congress decided we had to do something. We can argue whether it

would have been better to let the whole house of cards collapse at the time. I suspect it was better to bail it out and begin an orderly transition to something safer/better. Had things gone Sanders's way, I don't think we'd be better off right now.

[WDIM]

6. And he was correct! again!

The Billionaire Bankers didn't give a bailout to the millions of people that have lost their homes in foreclosure.
The Billionaire Carmakers didn't give a bailout to the millions of people that get their cars reposed.

It amazes me that anybody could justify bailing out billionaires for their bad financial decisions. But the working people of this country just get a big F U! Anybody that voted for the bailout of billionaires is unfit to hold office.

[corkhead]

7. No, actually he stood for principal in the face of a big no strings attached gift to the banksters

where they held the auto bailout hostage to get enough votes for the bankster bailout

[NurseJackie]

11. And, thus, we see the price one pays for being "inflexible". It's his own fault.

[FourScore]

8. There was a second bill which he and many others counted on, but it was killed by the republicans.

It was thoroughly explained by David Gergen that this is a false representation of Bernie's intentions.

[EndElectoral]

9. If you really want the truth read below.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2016/03/07/clintons-charges-that-sanders-did-not-support-auto-rescue-is-wrong/#6e390a9a582b

[thesquanderer]

10. 98% of the funds were going to those bankers vs. 2% to the auto industry.

It might not have been the best deal possible.

Please see my post at http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511442855

[FlatBaroque]

12. Not handing bankers a trillion dollars of taxpayers' money equals

"sticking it to them" - Stubby

What a fucking riot.

[Snotcicles]

13. I should have used the same instinct I use about stopping and peering into dumpsters,

and kept walking past this post.

[pat_k]

15. He was never against it. Just didn't give in to blackmail demand.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1441347