2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I think it is disingenuous of Bernie Sanders to state, in response to a very good question about [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)No it's disingenuous of Bernie to have a radical plan that touches all the most sensitive, polarizing elements of congressional debate over the past half century, and respond to how he plans to overcome the many obstacles faced by the types of changes he proposes by saying that he has in the past found common ground on aid to Veterans as if that issue comes close to what he's proposing. That might fly with college age kids who just discovered Simon and Garfunkel, but it doesn't impress me. Rather, I find it insulting. The GOP in 2008 did not move an inch when the ACA was being debated. Instead, they did everything they could to hinder, divide, water down, blow up, offer phoney amendments and finely every one of them vote against the ACA. They have since voted to repeal the ACA fifty-two times. If that sounds, like someone Bernie can work with for universal health care and expansion of social security payments, and a half dozen other new entitlement programs, I think Bernie needs some geriatric testing because he appears to have forgotten what's gone on the past 8 years he's spent in the Senate.