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bitterross

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15. Like it or not - Sanders has a following and a pulpit

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #13)

Sun Sep 24, 2017, 12:40 PM

Sep 2017

We can capitalize on that or we can spurn it. You don't have to join hands and sing kum by yah with him and his followers. You just have to be realistic and look at the fact we have some common goals we can help each other accomplish.

I do not think the same thing could be said of Jill Stein and the Green Party.

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The progressive liberal way or nothing, bipartisan health care is not health care "concern trolls" [View all] factfinder_77 Sep 2017 OP

1) The GOP controls the agenda. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #1

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev) is one. Rand Paul and Susan Collins factfinder_77 Sep 2017 #3

Heller is a co-sponsor of the current, proposed, horrible GOP Bill, is he not? guillaumeb Sep 2017 #5

The GOP bill is Graham-Cassidy-HELLER Nevernose Sep 2017 #8

It can be done: Obama's Unsung Bipartisan Legacy factfinder_77 Sep 2017 #4

Yes, the legacy. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #6

I'm all for bipartisanship. I think most of us are. PragmaticLiberal Sep 2017 #11

Frankly, I'm tired of the Anti-Sanders stuff. We have real issues to deal with. bitterross Sep 2017 #2

This is not debating last election, Sanders has just poposed his new "Single-Payer Health Care Bill" factfinder_77 Sep 2017 #7

You seem to have an Anti-Sanders bent to your posts. Stirring the pot much? bitterross Sep 2017 #10

I am tired of the constant pro-Sanders post...it is like it is being shoved down our throats. Demsrule86 Sep 2017 #13

Like it or not - Sanders has a following and a pulpit bitterross Sep 2017 #15

The problem is that a large ethos of his "following" is to spread disinformation R B Garr Sep 2017 #18

I find it hard to disagree that the Dem's Strategy is absolute failure. bitterross Sep 2017 #22

quit carrying water for "Republicans divide Ds" pogrom, we're keeping Sanders & any other D friends Sunlei Sep 2017 #14

That is my fear too - spending too much time helping the deplorables bitterross Sep 2017 #16

Then Republicans should be attacked instead of Democrats. R B Garr Sep 2017 #19

pick-up the phone, call congress/senate and tell them what you want. post all you want, its cheap Sunlei Sep 2017 #20

I'm tired of being labelled a troll. sarah FAILIN Sep 2017 #9

get off Sanders back,he says, "keep ACA" and make Congress improve it. Like USA did with SS, medica Sunlei Sep 2017 #12

Was it was a different Senator Sanders who worked with McCain in a bipartisan way on the VA bill ? karynnj Sep 2017 #17

Oh you again, huh? hedda_foil Sep 2017 #21