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Bernie Sanders

merrily

(45,251 posts) Wed Jul 15, 2015, 12:04 AM Jul 2015

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Highlight:

The Senator from Vermont tries to tell the US Senate: We are not an aristocracy. (awesome video) (Original Post) merrily Jul 2015 OP

"And with that, I note the absence of a quorum" Betty Karlson Jul 2015 #1

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1. "And with that, I note the absence of a quorum"

Wed Jul 15, 2015, 03:07 AM

Jul 2015

Biggest let-down of the entire speach: nobody was listening. They should have. This was point by point truth.

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3. There's usually no one listening. Most often, C-Span is not allowed to show that.

Wed Jul 15, 2015, 08:43 AM

Jul 2015

Cause even our transparency has to be opaque.

I bet someone's campaign strategist somewhere is viewing all of them.

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2. Speaking with passion, for us, on our behalf! Who else does this? No one!

Wed Jul 15, 2015, 06:51 AM

Jul 2015

Not a single fucking one!

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4. +1 He did a book of his filibuster. Probably the most money he ever made, even

Wed Jul 15, 2015, 08:45 AM

Jul 2015

though it's a public record.

He should do a multi-volume set of all his speeches.

and/or

We should be able to download any or all of them.