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In reply to the discussion: Sanders: 'Jumping the gun' on impeachment does no good [View all]TomCADem
(17,387 posts)36. Bernie is Holding Franken Accountable. Don't Blame Bernie or Risk Alienating His Followers...
...and if we do the Democrats will have no one to blame, but themselves if Trump wins.
Bernie is just trying to hold Democrats to a highers standard such as when he criticizes them about their acceptance of campaign contributions from the rich. Likewise, Bernie is demanding that Franken be held accountable.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/04/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-progressives-agenda/93241200/
WASHINGTON Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters are making one thing clear to Hillary Clinton if she is elected president on Nov. 8: There will be no honeymoon.
Building on lessons learned from 2008, progressives say they wont idly watch another Democratic administration name executive branch appointees backed by Wall Street, as they say President Obama did. And though Sanders is actively campaigning to help his former rival for the Democratic nomination defeat GOP nominee Donald Trump, he says hes with them grass-roots activists the day after the election.
"Weve got to do everything that we can to elect Secretary Clinton," Sanders said at a Thursday rally in Raleigh with the former secretary of State. "And on the day after the election, were gonna go back to work to make this country what we know it can become."
Progressive groups say personnel is policy and their first test for Clinton if she wins will be whether she appoints officials who will carry out the agenda Sanders fought for in the Democratic Party platform, one he calls "the most progressive agenda of any major political party" in the country's history.They are already focused on the types of appointees they will accept or oppose.
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He didn't have any problems jumping the gun in calling for Al Franken to resign
itsrobert
Dec 2017
#1
I would want to resign too, if most of my colleagues told me they want me to go take a hike.
LisaL
Dec 2017
#11
I was a Sanders supporter during the primaries and not afraid to say this: Shut up, Bernie.
DRoseDARs
Dec 2017
#31
Bernie is Holding Franken Accountable. Don't Blame Bernie or Risk Alienating His Followers...
TomCADem
Dec 2017
#36
I wish Sanders would have made the point about not allowing Mueller to be fired
agincourt
Dec 2017
#2
They were out in force when she said something similar (but she wasn't as explicit as Sanders)
George II
Dec 2017
#12
There is value in putting impeachment in the news, regardless of the vote. Give the news
lindysalsagal
Dec 2017
#41
But lets jump the gun on liberal democratic Senator Al Franken, Bernie?????????????????????
workinclasszero
Dec 2017
#54