23 Responses to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Spares No Democrat for Weakness in Health Care Fight

1. Jason Rosenbaum October 13th, 2009 at 6:13 pm «

   Go Sanders!
2. newtonusr October 13th, 2009 at 6:26 pm «

   O.U.C.H.
   Dems beware, your weak, craven, entitled, bought hides will soon be on public display.
   Thank you Senator Sanders.
3. ubetchaiam October 13th, 2009 at 6:30 pm «

   Now if we could only have 99 more Senators like Sanders.

   BUT if what eventually is legislated isn’t satisfactory, then we ought to fund our own clinics and take away the insurance industry’s silver spoon.

   Just imagine if millions of citizens got together and contributed as much to ‘free clinics’ as they did to the Obama campaign.
• Mauimom October 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pm «

  Now if we could only have 99 more Senators like Sanders.

  If they were really “like Sanders,” we would only need 59 more. Talk about “filibuster-proof.” Man, would that be some kind of fun.
• klynn October 14th, 2009 at 7:08 am «

  THAT is a concept worth pondering.

  Talk about hope.
• Gabriele October 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pm «

  Hello ubetchaiam, I have been thinking about this a lot lately. The majority of American people is not really all that involved in politics. They just want to have a job, where they make enough money to support their family. They just want to be able to take their sick child to the doctor. They really are not asking for much, they just want to live. If we put the amount of effort and money we are now donating to political causes, and use it, as you state, to create clinics, I believe that would be a much greater cause. I know that doctors and nurses will support us, I know this because I am a nurse, and I know many doctors. I am with you 100%. We need to find people who know how to make this happen, and we need to devote ourselves to this cause. Thanks!
4. selise October 13th, 2009 at 6:33 pm «

   a little wishful thinking, elliot? *g*

   sanders is I-VT

   thanks for the vid
• Elliott October 13th, 2009 at 6:36 pm «

  ach der lieber, I know better. Thanks selise.
• TheLurkingMod October 13th, 2009 at 6:39 pm «

  The mea culpa belongs right here.
5. fflambeau October 13th, 2009 at 7:31 pm «

   “An election is coming up!” There is the remedy for the American people as noted by Sen. Sanders and the journalist. Harry Reid is indeed playing with fire as are Obama and the Blue Dogs. Why should real Democrats support them if they cannot do anything with a supermajority? Reid should be primaried. No real Democrat from the Democratic side of the party should help him with $$ or campaign work. Let him twist in the wind. Democrats don’t need no stinkin Dinos(Democrats in Name Only).
• Mauimom October 13th, 2009 at 11:50 pm «

  No real Democrat from the Democratic side of the party should help him with $$ or campaign work.

  Please keep this in mind when you get your next soliciting e-mail from the DSCC, DNC or Obama.

  You have between now & then to craft a suitable [and/or suitably obscene] response. They make it hard to “reply” to their incoming, but with a little work you can find a way to get through to them. They deserve it.
6. iremember54 October 13th, 2009 at 10:08 pm «

   The election coming up won’t change much, and the people will show with their voting just how dumb they are by re-electing the same people, or giving repub’s enough to really jam the works.
7. JamesJoyce October 14th, 2009 at 3:23 am «

   http://marquesletters.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/the-health-insurance-mandate-is-it-slavery/#comment-213
8. JamesJoyce October 14th, 2009 at 3:32 am «

   Involuntary servitude to corporations, as Jefferson warned. The Baucus Bill with a mandate to purchase from corporations insurance contracts is unconstitutional on its face. How about some input from the SJC.

   What we have here is not health care reform or health insurance reform. It is leverage economic servitude, under the color of law to corporations who have monopolies on our lives…… This bill is a Trojan Horse, where corporations will further eviscerate Americans and the republic for profit, surely as the south sought to secede from the union, to protect the institution of slavery, for profit! At what cost?
9. JamesJoyce October 14th, 2009 at 3:42 am «

   The American people are not subservient to government or corporations….

   We are the “”governed”" from which government derives its just and moral powers. Our constitutional rights are being obliterated and deprived by corporations who buy unconstitutional law via campaign contributions to professional politicians aka corporate aristocrats. Jefferson is correct!
10. JamesJoyce October 14th, 2009 at 3:56 am «

    Hey President Obama,

    Health care reform is now about forcing people to purchase health insurance contracts under the fear of tax penalty, from the very corporations who eviscerate USA. In the primary you said “…health care reform is not about forcing people to enter into insurance contracts they already can’t afford, it about making health care affordable!” What gives Mr. President, have you caved into the insurance lobby with a patently unconstitutional mandate which amounts to “”involuntary servitude to corporations,”" which exercise segregation of risk, aka discrimination under the color of law on the basis of age, sex, genetic predispositions. So much for equal protection under law and due process rights when insurance corporations can influence and buy law which usurp my rights as an American! MANDATED HEALTH INSURANCE IS CORPORATE SERVITUDE / IT IS AN INVOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION IMPOSED ON PEOLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A “LIFE! ” I know what the founders would have done if leveraged into a similar situation…… War………..
11. james October 14th, 2009 at 5:16 am «

    It’s exactly what Obama has failed to do that will cause people who are tired of this nonsense from Democrats to refrain from voting in 2010. I don’t care how committed you are to keeping the GOP in the wilderness, why should I go out and vote for a Democratic majority in congress when the people there feel no commitment to the people who put them there?

    One of the reasons people were so disgusted with Jimmy Carter was his retreat, once he was in office, from the campaign rhetoric on which he had campaigned. True there was the Watergate backlash, but there was also a hint of populism in Carter’s stump speeches which evaporated and became the building blocks on which Reagan and his band of clowns built the house of straw that just came falling down. Cf. trucking deregulation, capital gains tax cut, and worst of all, making Middle East oil a stated national security goal thereby tying us to the war criminals and their genocidal ilk in the Israeli government.
12. Jim White October 14th, 2009 at 5:53 am «

    Thanks, Elliott. Bernie sometimes seems like he is the only one in the Senate not afraid to speak up for progressive ideals. The quote from Harkin was also encouraging. With two of them now telling Baucus to STFU, there just might be hope…
13. KarenM October 14th, 2009 at 7:08 am «

    Bernie Sanders is a mensch. Period.
14. marcos October 14th, 2009 at 7:58 am «

    Sanders has the ability to join with the Republicans to stop this shit sandwich in its tracks.

    I mean, if the Democrats are not serious about serving the American people, if they can’t keep Leiberman in line, then why should there be a double standard for Senators from the left and right?
15. marcos October 14th, 2009 at 8:03 am «

    Here are Freedomworks’ toll free phone numbers to the Capitol:

    (866) 928-3035 or (866) 928-0525

    Call Saunders and ask him to filibuster a bill that has an individual mandate with no public option.
16. oregondave October 14th, 2009 at 5:56 pm «

    Bernie Sanders is on Thom Hartmann’s nation radio program every (well, almost every) Friday. Check your local listings . . .
17. NationalInsecurity October 14th, 2009 at 9:55 pm «

    JamesJoyce October 14th, 2009 at 3:32 am
    “involuntary servitude to corporations”
    ……..
    The term we’re seeking to describe the emerging health insurance (sic) industry is sinecure.

    Sinecures have historically provided a potent tool for governments or monarchs to distribute patronage, while recipients are able to store up titles and easy salaries. wikipedia

    We are merely the chattel of the land, as it were.