What do people expect those of us who support Bernie's agenda to do?

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131. Three bills is "plenty?"

Umm, the Obama stimulus, Dodd-Frank, etc

Umm, Are you counting the 'etc.' as listing of many bills?

I don't know what kind of "example" you're looking for of him "compromising"

You were the one who said that he made "compromise votes" as a retort to my observation that he has a 'my way or the highway' attitude, or have you forgotten that? You must have had some idea of what you meant... you tell me.

Neither ACA nor Dodd Frank nor the Stimulus had everything Bernie wanted in them, but he voted for them anyway, because they were improvements over the status quo.

If "compromise vote" means that you voted yes on a bill that you didn't approve of every single line, or had things in it that were not what you would have written, then most every vote from every rep is therefore 'compromise vote," so that doesn't really say much about Bernie as being any different..

So you haven't presented any evidence against the observation that Bernie is a 'my way or the highway' personality.



I also pointed out that he has seldom ever admitted that he voted yes on a problematic was a "compromise" in fact, in the example I gave he tried to rewrite history by saying that his yes vote (instead of a protest "no" vote) for military action in Iraq was not really important, because it was "nearly unanimous" when it was clearly not...