The Difference Between Bernie Sanders & Hillary Clinton During the Civil Rights Era

[Lucinda]

15. If you look at Bernie's record. At what he has

actively worked to change in congress, you wont find much of HIS ideas being put forward. He has had three laws passed in 25 years. Only a handful of things have even left chamber. NOTHING he put forward last year had a single Republican co-sponsor. Most of what he proposes sits in committee and dies. That's not leadership. He works with others on their proposals, but he doesn't lead with his own ideas. He adds amendments, which is good, but what he proposes, he does with little assistance and support.

http://tinyurl.com/h729cv7
3 - Sponsored became law:

2 - were naming post offices
1 - was a COLA raise for Vets

My link above take you to the "became law" results - but you can do it for yourself from here - as well as look at his record session by session:

https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033

He is right about where we should be as a country, but you don't get there by making speeches and not doing any work to actually make it happen.

And I have no problem with Hillary progressing on some issues that I have always been much more liberal on. She is there now. And Bernie's supported civil unions but not gay marriage as recent at 2006. He came around faster than HRC and should be commended, but it didn't happen years and years before she did.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/10/05/bernie_sanders_on_marriage_equality_he_s_no_longtime_champion.html


A great deal of the noise that says that she waffles is because people cherry pick what she says. She has been trying to get universal health care for decades now. Her support for that hasn't changed, she just feels that we shouldn't fight those battles again, that congress wont pass single payer now (and they wont - not unless both chambers go our way) and that the best way to proceed is to build on the ACA, fix it's flaws. If you see something where it looks like she has waffled, if you dig a little deeper, you will most often find that she was working to get what changes were possible at that given moment in time. It's pretty much how things get changed in a representative government. No side ever really gets everything they want.