2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you think that Hillary will switch positions to being pro-TPP? [View all]karynnj
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Sanders in 2009, when asked, said that though he had introduced legislation for single payer, there were not more than 10 Senators that would vote for it.
By the way, in 2005 or 2006, when the Democrats could not have passed anything Ted Kennedy introduced a bill that was essentially single payer health care. Yet, starting in the summer of 2008, he was hard at work - despite his health problems - working with staff to create what became the HELP committee's version of ACA. ( I was at an election eve rally in November 2008 where Kerry explained that that was why Kennedy was not there at what was his traditional election eve rally in Barnstable county. Kennedy had asked Kerry to take his place - and he did. What was cool was there were double sided signs for Kerry and Kennedy that had been stapled together for the rally. Looking closely, both were printed and paid for by the Kerry campaign, because no old Kennedy signs had been saved by Kennedy's office after 2006 when he ran. )
So, would you like to take back this asinine attack on Sanders ... or extend it to Senator Kennedy?