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Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
47. Agreed.
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:34 PM
Jun 2019

Great argument for a moderate candidate like her. She still has yet to win more than the 23 primaries Bernie did. But I actually have no doubt she could.

Also some food for thought, not include Bernies success at pressuring Amazon to raise its minimum wage to 15 an hour. the cfpb is a great accomplishment, but
Bernie has her outdone with the vast accomplishments in his book.:

"Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Representatives.
The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history.
He was dubbed the “amendment king” in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress.
Ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.
Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing.
In 1963, Bernie Sanders participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in person in the march on Washington, DC.
Former professor of political science at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College.
Former mayor of Burlington, VT. In a stunning upset in 1981, Sanders won the mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont’s largest city. He shocked the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor. Burlington is now reported to be one of the most livable cities in the nation.
Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and chaired the group for its first 8 years.
Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA.
1984: Mayor Sanders established the Burlington Community Land Trust, the first municipal housing land-trust in the country for affordable housing. The project becomes a model emulated throughout the world. It later wins an award from Jack Kemp-led HUD.
1991: one of a handful in Congress to vote against authorizing US military force in Iraq. “I have a real fear that the region is not going to be more peaceful or more stable after the war,” he said at the time.
1992: Congress passes Sanders’ first signed piece of legislation to create the National Program of Cancer Registries. A Reader’s Digest article calls the law “the cancer weapon America needs most.” All 50 states now run registries to help cancer researchers gain important insights.
November 1993: Sanders votes against the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement. Returning from a tour of factories in Mexico, Sanders says: “If NAFTA passes, corporate profits will soar because it will be even easier than now for American companies to flee to Mexico and hire workers there for starvation wages.”
July 1996: Sanders is one of only 67 (out of 435, 15%) votes against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married. Sanders urged the Supreme Court to throw out the law, which it did in a landmark 2013 ruling – some 17 years later.
July 1999: Standing up against the major pharmaceutical companies, Sanders becomes the first member of Congress to personally take seniors across the border to Canada to buy lower-cost prescription drugs. The congressman continues his bus trips to Canada with a group of breast cancer patients the following April. These brave women are able to purchase their medications in Canada for almost one-tenth the price charged in the States.
August 1999: An overflow crowd of Vermonters packs a St. Michael’s College town hall meeting hosted by Sanders to protest an IBM plan to cut older workers’ pensions by as much as 50 percent. CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and The New York Times cover the event. After IBM enacts the plan, Sanders works to reverse the cuts, passing a pair of amendments to prohibit the federal government from acting to overturn a federal district court decision that ruled that IBM’s plan violated pension age discrimination laws. Thanks to Sanders’ efforts, IBM agreed to a $320 million legal settlement with some 130,000 IBM workers and retirees.
November 1999: About 10 years before the 2008 Wall Street crash spins the world economy into a massive recession, Sanders votes “no” on a bill to undo decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. “This legislation,” he predicts at the time, “will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers, increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses, diminished credit for rural America and taxpayer exposure to potential losses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers, a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry and further concentration of power in our country.” The House passed the bill 362-57 over Sanders’ objection.
October 2001: Sanders votes against the USA Patriot Act. “All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms,” Sanders says at the time. He subsequently votes against reauthorizing the law in 2006 and 2011.
October 2002: Sanders votes against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. He warns at the time that an invasion could “result in anti-Americanism, instability and more terrorism.” Hillary Clinton votes in favor of it.
November 2006: Sanders defeats Vermont’s richest man, Rich Tarrant, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders, running as an Independent, is endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
December 2007: Sanders’ authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. He later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the grant program.
September 2008: Thanks to Sanders’ efforts, funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans heat their homes in winter.
February 2009: Sanders works with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to pass an amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall Street banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers.
December 2009: Sanders passes language in the Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems by 2017. The legislation allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs.
March 2010: President Barack Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers. Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors and nurses who practice in under-served communities.
July 2010: Sanders works with Republican Congressman Ron Paul in the House to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse.
March 2013: Sanders, now chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans, leads a successful effort to stop a “chained-CPI” proposal supported by Congressional Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security and disabled veterans’ benefits.
April 2013: Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall Street banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral.
August 2014: A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sen. Sanders, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama. The measure includes $5 billion for the VA to hire more doctors and health professionals to meet growing demand for care.
January 2015: Sanders takes over as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the American middle class.
January 2015: Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
March 2015: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to expand benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come. The Social Security Expansion Act was filed on the same day Sanders and other senators received the petitions signed by 2 million Americans, gathered by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
September 2015: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) today introduced bills to ban private prisons, reinstate the federal parole system and eliminate quotas for the number of immigrants held in detention.
January 2016: Sanders Places Hold on FDA Nominee Dr. Robert Califf because of his close ties to the pharmaceutical industry and lack of commitment to lowering drug prices. There is no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies."

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided

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Bernie is flailing [View all] BeyondGeography Jun 2019 OP
What happened to the pledge that he so proudly claimed he was the first to sign? George II Jun 2019 #1
He's a liar and no dem. Same shit new election. we can do it Jun 2019 #60
Who is surprised by this? Gothmog Jun 2019 #77
The "Democrats are plotting against me" schtick from Bernie is not wearing well. Zoonart Jun 2019 #2
Spoiler Alert! TheBlackAdder Jun 2019 #81
I don't disparage him this way. Cary Jun 2019 #3
Are you the corporate wing of the Democratic party ? CentralMass Jun 2019 #52
Warren started consumer protection agency. we can do it Jun 2019 #61
Good question Cary Jun 2019 #69
Thank You! Cha Jun 2019 #76
Well, he's named a few post offices NastyRiffraff Jun 2019 #88
😂 we can do it Jun 2019 #89
I don't support Sanders so according to Sanders' supporters, yes Cary Jun 2019 #68
Is that anyone that does not follow Bernie lockstep? Blue_true Jun 2019 #71
Don't even Go There, Man Eustace is Useful Jun 2019 #85
Just pathetic... comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #4
+1000 we can do it Jun 2019 #62
He is sinking and is grasping at straws Botany Jun 2019 #5
i hope he doesn't turn all mean like he did to Hillary. I love our Democratic candidates !! trueblue2007 Jun 2019 #9
I am afraid that he has one foot already there. Blue_true Jun 2019 #72
He is right. Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #6
There's certainly an anti-Bernie component at work here BeyondGeography Jun 2019 #7
She is the best moderate candidate we have. Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #11
Warren isn't moderate. HerbChestnut Jun 2019 #17
disagree, Warren is to the left of Sanders since she supports planned parenthood JI7 Jun 2019 #21
Planned parenthood exists and is needed due to a vacuum of accessible medical care. Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #23
I don't think Bernie's plan is to abolish Planned Parenthood? More likely the govt will emulatorloo Jun 2019 #25
Agreed completely. Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #34
And sensible gun control, which bs does not. we can do it Jun 2019 #63
FWIW Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #22
We live in America though. Both Sanders and Warren are left-liberal in policy emulatorloo Jun 2019 #28
Agreed Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #30
Oh I totally get that. Would definitely change the conversation in a good way emulatorloo Jun 2019 #31
More progressive in terms of progressive accomplishments. ehrnst Jun 2019 #42
She is a moderate progressive. Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #74
Warren is a solid left liberal. emulatorloo Jun 2019 #24
Agreed. Just a little to the right of what I would call "not moderate" Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #39
You simply can't believe this. It's not possible. SouthernProgressive Jun 2019 #33
She isnt a democratic socialist Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #40
But she actually gets things done. Talk is talk - if there aren't any ehrnst Jun 2019 #43
DLC pushed our center politics to the right Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #46
That's a label that doesn't put her anywhere... SouthernProgressive Jun 2019 #83
Warren is moderate? mcar Jun 2019 #38
Yeah Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #41
She got the CFPB into existence. Her accomplishments are to the left of Sanders. ehrnst Jun 2019 #44
Agreed. Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #47
Not seeing anything there to rival Warren's accomplishment with the CFPB, ehrnst Jun 2019 #56
Shes a great candidate, shes honest and her policies benefit the vast majority Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #57
Well, that's different than saying "she's moderate." ehrnst Jun 2019 #58
I think you are right Tiggeroshii Jun 2019 #59
She does the work. He wags the finga. we can do it Jun 2019 #64
Do you have a copy of the anti Bernie pact that people supposedly signed. Blue_true Jun 2019 #73
What "anti-Bernie pact"? betsuni Jun 2019 #80
That's true. She is that for a lot of people. KPN Jun 2019 #26
Bernie had the guts to run in 2016 BeyondGeography Jun 2019 #29
Why did you that Bernie was deferring to Warren before running in 2016? ehrnst Jun 2019 #48
He jumped in late when it was clear Warren wasn't running BeyondGeography Jun 2019 #49
I think that nothing and no one would stop Sanders from running. ehrnst Jun 2019 #51
Here's a good article on that BeyondGeography Jun 2019 #53
Did she discuss this with Sanders? ehrnst Jun 2019 #55
Warren's her own person. emulatorloo Jun 2019 #78
Of course. I never said that Warren wouldn't be where she is today without Bernie. I just know KPN Jun 2019 #84
I am a Democrat Cary Jun 2019 #19
Him. Not Us. W_HAMILTON Jun 2019 #8
I see what you did there. nt Kahuna7 Jun 2019 #14
I cannot forget that Sanders candidacy did contribute to Trump win question everything Jun 2019 #10
At one of his 2016 rallys SHRED Jun 2019 #13
I will never forget what he and the BoBs did. we can do it Jun 2019 #66
Ironically, Bernie's Progressive issues will have the best shot when Bernie drops out of the race aeromanKC Jun 2019 #12
unfortunately that will never happen, and the real hardcore (NON DU) Berners HATE Warren Celerity Jun 2019 #20
Bernie would have been nothing in 2016 if Warren ran (not keeping her word to constituents) we can do it Jun 2019 #67
This tweet is a mistake by the Sanders campaign. HerbChestnut Jun 2019 #15
Paranoia will destroy ya BeyondGeography Jun 2019 #16
Pathetic lunamagica Jun 2019 #18
Bernie, I love ya man, but calling out any Democrats is very unattractive when fascists yaesu Jun 2019 #27
Wow is he going down fast. What a horrible statement. SouthernProgressive Jun 2019 #32
I guess BS thought hiring those Cha Jun 2019 #50
I don't think very many 'establishment' Democrats were willing comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #75
He should have had one of them make the tweet. Under their handle. SouthernProgressive Jun 2019 #82
Yeah, it seems BS hired the wrong Cha Jun 2019 #87
This will be fun to watch Gothmog Jun 2019 #35
It will be interesting to see how Sanders supporters treat her on social media. ehrnst Jun 2019 #36
It'll look a lot like how they treated Hillary BannonsLiver Jun 2019 #37
They've been demonizing her over any little thing they can find for weeks now. NYC Democrat Jun 2019 #45
I keep seeing "Hillary 2.0" betsuni Jun 2019 #65
I lurk at Reddit. "Corporatist" "Centrist" "Establishment" All words that have nothing to do with emulatorloo Jun 2019 #79
Interesting tweet from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) jayschool2013 Jun 2019 #54
Bernie has never seemed so out of touch with this tweet. Politicub Jun 2019 #70
From Nate Silver-Warren is hurting sanders Gothmog Jun 2019 #86
And wait for it.....voting for Warren is sexist🤣 we can do it Jun 2019 #90
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