American Conservative Union Lifetime Ratings: 2.67 Booker, 6.31 Sanders (Lower is better)

[JHan]

19. "Voted against the people" is an unfair characterization..

And antagonistic spin.

Booker is pro-choice, he supports gay marriage, he is in favor of raising taxes on "the top 1%" and he wants to increase Government funding of the social safety net - he's also in favor of infrastructure programs.

Yet one vote on a flawed amendment is enough to smear his entire record in the eyes of some.

"Sure, this was a non-binding budget amendment, and some will argue that things could have simply been cleaned up later on. But it was ostensibly designed to be a funding mechanism, and instead, it read like a milquetoast resolution. There were a number of other amendments introduced that very day that included provisions for the Food and Drug Administration; Sanders’s didn’t, and it needed to.

In making the case for this legislation, Sanders spoke almost exclusively about the re-importation of patented American pharmaceuticals, and to be fair, that is an enormous part of the equation; it’s also what most American consumers demand. However, it doesn’t capture the entirety of the market. In some cases, American consumers may turn to Canadian compounding pharmacies for cheaper specialized medications; in others, Americans may want to purchase generic medications that are no longer patented and can be manufactured independently at a lower cost. And that’s why we need FDA oversight and compliance."

https://cenlamar.com/2017/01/14/if-bernie-sanders-cares-about-cheaper-drugs-he-should-stop-smearing-his-colleagues-for-rejecting-his-flawed-amendment/


So a strong senator is now getting heat for an amendment that could have been better conceptualized - this is now the standard for besmirching our allies?