Bernie, "Ok I am President now and I want you big banks to break youeselves up."

[upaloopa]

"I want your plan on my desk by tomorrow!"

"Supreme Court, over turn Citizens United by next week."


'Congress, everybody get $15 per hr starting next week"

"Kids no more tuition loans, college is free, I'll get the money from Wall Street. Go ahead and register."

[nc4bo]

1. Wow.

[CanadaexPat]

2. He'll just tell them to cut it out.

[socialist_n_TN]

7. Yeah, this was my first thought......

[Kip Humphrey]

3. Fortunately, Bernie is not as childish.

Besides, only Hillary talks that way (I told the banks to "cut it out!&quot . Try again.

[frylock]

4. Sure, he could do that, but #WouldThatEndRacism?

[Fuddnik]

5. !

[liberalmike27]

6. Yea, Sorry

But Hillary would have the same problems, and at least you're able to cite the things Bernie wants done, because he's actually voiced them. What does Hillary want to do, except a vague bunch of generalities.

I'm satisfied Bernie will wield the "VETO" pen, because in the first couple of years, that is what is going to be needed.

We've both seen an example of what a Clinton with a mixed, or fully Republican congress will do. Sign. Sign. Sign. Gets a lot done, yea great--a lot of Republican stuff. I don't want that. Do you? If so, you're on the wrong board.

I get so tired of this general nonsense from the Hillary crowd, while not putting their own candidate under any scrutiny about the same things.

[Skink]

8. The next President can not and should not attempt to play nice.

[Hortensis]

17. How, tho? Use the military to take over Congress?

Or just waggle that finger extra hard at them when they tell him he can't have what he wants?

Our problem is not that Democratic presidents are too nice.

[socialist_n_TN]

10. Yep. At first you've got to stop the bleeding.......

"Getting things done" when it means compromising with the right wing are things that I don't want to get done.

[Jefferson23]

9. Yes, Bernie Sanders Knows Something About Breaking Up Banks (NYT)

So, Mark Halperin deems Bernie's answers in the Daily News "inadequate". Maybe he needs to ask Clinton for her particulars. Or would those be found in one of her $225,000 speeches?

Bernie has gotten specific about what he would do. He introduced legislation on breaking up the big banks, for one thing. Slate magazine reviewed his position. That was last year.

The New York Times, interestingly, has this to counter that hit piece:

Yes, Bernie Sanders Knows Something About Breaking Up Banks

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/upshot/yes-bernie-sanders-knows-something-about-breaking-up-banks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[Human101948]

11. As one commentator said, "Eisenhower did not have a fully formed plan for invading Europe..."

He told his generals, write up a detailed plan for D-Day. And the Germans, just like the Republicans, were not going to cooperate.

[pinebox]

12. "CUT IT OUT!"

[rachacha]

19. +1000

[hollowdweller]

13. This is the same attack thing Clinton used unsuccessfully against Obama.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-daily-news_us_5704779ce4b0a506064d8df5

[Hortensis]

14. No, as Sanders said, maybe ask Congress to

pass a law.

Yes, of course. But, guess what? It cannot be done any other way. All those other musings, using the Fed, etc., would be partial steps at best that would lead straight to litigation.

[kcjohn1]

15. You are showing your ignorance

In cases where there are issues around monopoly or a merger is being blocked due to anti trust issues, government issues specifications, and it is up to the private institutions to reorganise themselves to meet those specifications.

For example recent big merger of two big cable companies one of them had to sell assets in certain markets to get approval and avoid anti trust legislation.

This is exactly the case with the banks. Breaking them up means they need to sell or spinoff certain parts of the bank to meet size requirements. There is no scenario in which the government themselves handles the reorganization. That is just absurd.

[GreatGazoo]

16. "Strawman, go and bern yourself..."

[Orsino]

18. Clinton: "Okay, I am president now, and you banks can keep getting bigger." n/t

[KingFlorez]

20. That's about the extent of his plan

[baldguy]

21. Considering he's been in DC for 35yrs, his ignorance of how the fed govt works is astonishing.

A lot like Trump's "Mexico, give me money to pay for this wall I just built", or: "All you Muslims go back to where you came from? What? You're from Chicago? I meant that other place!"

[Sinistrous]

22. Wow! Three strawmen in a single post!