Fact: Sanders has been in the Senate nine years and has sponsored only one bill that pass.

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11. Sanders has little experience in creating legislation that will pass.

His singel payer bill has no specifics on how to pay for it. whose taxes go up? by how much?

And now GOP sees fresh opening with Dems' single payer embrace...

Just as I wrote in my op

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029590993

To quote:

"ow the GOP can frame the funding structure however they want, they can fill the void with their narratives. Already we’re seeing reports on how it would raise taxes by trillions each year. And now all of our presidential candidates are tied to that framework, on a bill that hasn’t even been properly written yet. All for what? Even if somehow this all succeeds and we get to the stage where the bill must be finalized (with actual specifics), it’ll just fall apart. It’s the same problem the right had by getting commitments to vague notions of repeal with no specifics, you’ll never know that you have the votes on anything specific when it comes down to actually legislating.

At worst this severely harms our chances in 2020.

At best we win in 2020 but then spend all our capitol trying to get this done only to fall apart when we realize no one actually agreed on how to fund universal health care.

We had a policy wonk and the left flipped their shit. Now we've become the Bernie party, the party of vague ideas but no idea on how to legislate. We now have two stupid parties in american politics.

According to Bernie (in the WaPo) Americans dont mind paying more taxes....
All the repubs hsve to do in 2018 and 2020 to win= connect the Dem party to Bernie and then show people how much their taxes would go up.
Bernie just handed trump his victory in 2020. "


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/350935-gop-sees-fresh-opening-with-dems-single-payer-embrace

"We’re absolutely ecstatic that the Democratic party is embracing single payer, and I think there’s a stark contrast developing at a time when the Republican party is focusing on cutting taxes, the Democratic party is focused on adding trillions of dollars of spending and advocating for socialized medicine,” said Corry Bliss, executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the House GOP-approved super PAC.

The CLF, which plans on spending $100 million during the 2018 election cycle to protect Republican seats in the House, plans to spend a portion of that on ads tying Democrats to single payer. That’s twice as much as they spent in 2016. “We have $50 million dedicated to attacking Nancy Pelosi. We’re just working through what portion of that can we use to explaining how harmful single payer will be to the American people,” Bliss said.