Video: [Republican AND Robert REICH] Praises Bernie Sanders For Effective Legislating & Humility

[floppyboo]

Both a former Repub and Robert Reich featured in this vid on Sanders' effectiveness and humility in congress.

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[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread floppyboo.

[NurseJackie]

2. Where can I find a list his legislative accomplishments?

Former Republican Praises Bernie Sanders For Effective Legislating

Oh, good... where can I find a list his legislative accomplishments?

[Gothmog]

3. I am also curious about these legislative accomplishments

[vsrazdem]

5. There's this thing called Google.

https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/what-bernie-sanders-got-done-in-washington-a-legislative-inventory/

[NurseJackie]

7. Amendments are not "legislative accomplishments"...

Amendments are not "legislative accomplishments"... simply being present to vote for someone else's bill is not a legislative accomplishment. Tell me about HIS accomplishments.

By my count, he's sponsored or co-sponsored maybe 7 that have passed... over the course of his 28 year career. That's one every four years.

I guess all I'm trying to say here is that such a low number isn't really all that impressive to me. It's not as if he's some powerhouse or senate lion as many are trying to present him as being. All I'm seeing are exaggerations that really have no semblance to the reality.

There's this thing called Google.

Really?



Besides, that link is hardly what I'd consider to be an impartial or authoritative source. Might as well have linked to his campaign website.

[vsrazdem]

12. Of course.

[sheshe2]

30. Reich

Robert Reich is also a fellow at the Sanders Institute.

https://www.sandersinstitute.com/about/fellows

Unbiased.

[Gothmog]

22. Seriously what are sanders' actual legislative accomplishments in the real world

This means bills authored and passed

[lapucelle]

25. Here's a list from a reliable source: 7 bills in 28 years.

Sanders was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

S. 885 (113th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, as the “Thaddeus Stevens Post Office”.

S. 2782 (113th): A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to improve the Federal charter for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and for other ...

S. 893 (113th): Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013

H.R. 5245 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Marble Street in Fair Haven, Vermont, as the “Matthew Lyon Post Office Building”.

H.J.Res. 129 (104th): Granting the consent of Congress to the Vermont-New Hampshire Interstate Public Water Supply Compact.

H.R. 1353 (102nd): Entitled the “Taconic Mountains Protection Act of 1991”.

H.J.Res. 132 (102nd): To designate March 4, 1991, as “Vermont Bicentennial Day”.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400357#enacted_ex=on

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

[Gothmog]

34. Thank you

[lapucelle]

26. 7 bills in 28 years.

Sanders was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

S. 885 (113th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, as the “Thaddeus Stevens Post Office”.

S. 2782 (113th): A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to improve the Federal charter for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and for other ...

S. 893 (113th): Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013

H.R. 5245 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Marble Street in Fair Haven, Vermont, as the “Matthew Lyon Post Office Building”.

H.J.Res. 129 (104th): Granting the consent of Congress to the Vermont-New Hampshire Interstate Public Water Supply Compact.

H.R. 1353 (102nd): Entitled the “Taconic Mountains Protection Act of 1991”.

H.J.Res. 132 (102nd): To designate March 4, 1991, as “Vermont Bicentennial Day”.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400357#enacted_ex=on

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

[NYMinute]

32. He named two post offices.

That is the highlight.

[TwilightZone]

4. Former Republican.

The claim that he's a Republican is a bit disingenuous. Elizabeth Warren is a former Republican, too.

So is Cenk Uygur, for that matter.

[floppyboo]

6. Sure. I edited the [title] so Reich would fit subject line.

But if you watch the video, you'll see the unedited title, which says Former Republican, and does not mention Reich.
I'm guessing alot of comments are coming from people that are just reacting to headlines. Yawn.

[TwilightZone]

10. I was referring to the video linked in your OP.

It quite prominently says "Republican Praises Bernie" in the preview, which is false.

My point is that "former Republican" and "Republican" aren't the same thing. But then, it's TYT, so I'm not surprised they're not terribly concerned with being accurate.

And, as Nurse Jackie noted, plugging the endorsement of a guy who spent 30 months in jail due to his links to Jack Abramoff is misguided, at best.

[floppyboo]

18. no - not a TYT video

and the youtube name of the 'Rational National' video says Former Republican.
Um, I'm going to guess that David Doel is using 'former' as in 'former' repub representative.
I don't have access to voter roles (just a lowly Canadian bot) so couldn't tell you if he is a registered R today.

Anyways, its more about the information in the video in regards to Sanders' ability to get things done, as supported by Reich, who was Clinton's Labour secretary

[NurseJackie]

19. Cenk Uygur's "interview" with Bob Ney is featured PROMINENTLY at the beginning of the video.

Cenk Uygur's "interview" with Bob Ney is featured PROMINENTLY at the beginning of the video. The "TYT Network" logo and "The Young Turks" is plastered across the background. Don't pretend that you overlooked that. It is, by proxy, a TYT video. The very careful splitting of hairs that's going on there really does nothing to support your argument.

as supported by Reich, who was Clinton's Labour secretary

That's an opinion that was EXPRESSED by Reich. There's really nothing there to "support" anything.

[Gothmog]

23. The same Bob Ney who was convicted?

[NurseJackie]

24. Yes... he was corrupt. And they're holding out his "endorsement" as a thing of pride??

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-rep-bob-ney-gets-30-months-in-jail/

[TwilightZone]

20. Do some research on Ney's background.

Once you do, I doubt you'll continue plugging his support of Sanders as a positive. He is the living embodiment of everything Sanders supporters purport to detest and the last person whose support you (or anyone, including TYT) should be applauding.

[TwilightZone]

21. As for David Doel, he wrote this tripe:

"Joe Biden lied so hard his eye bled."

Pardon me if I don't take this idiot seriously. You shouldn't, either. He's clearly a hack.

[wasupaloopa]

29. Why the deception OP's ? Can't you find an honest report on Bernie that isn't subject to our

scrutiny?

Seems these Bernie OP's are shams.

[floppyboo]

31. Could you tell me what is deceptive?

Not trying to be obtuse. Seriously don't understand what you mean.

[wasupaloopa]

37. Those prasing Berne in the OP are not anything new because the same thing as 2016. Just a rerun.

[floppyboo]

38. that doesn't answer my question. huh? wassup?

[sheshe2]

28. Robert Reich.

Robert Reich is a fellow at The Sanders Institute:

https://www.sandersinstitute.com/about/fellows

[floppyboo]

8. Have you watched the video? His name is not on some bills because he passed them off to R's

so they would get passed. He's not stoopid.

[NurseJackie]

9. Considering the history of that particular congressman...

Considering the history of that particular congressman, it's difficult for me to understand why anyone would be boasting about this "endorsement".

All I'm saying is... Cenk Uygur is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this, and considering Former Republican Congressman Bob Ney's past and his trouble with the law... it's amazing to me that his judgement (regarding anyone's character) would be held up and displayed as a source of pride.

This only works if the viewer/reader/listener has no idea what came before. But for anyone actually who knows WHO he is, this is something that would cause more harm than benefit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-rep-bob-ney-gets-30-months-in-jail/

[TwilightZone]

11. Agreed.

One would think that Sanders supporters would have a problem with someone linked to Jack Abramoff, but alas, no.

[George II]

13. I was just about to point that out. Bob Ney was sentenced to 30 months in Federal prison....

...for corruption, the first sentenced in the Jack Abramoff scandal.

For those who mentioned that Elizabeth Warren is an "ex-Republican" too, like it's the same as Ney, I don't think she ever pleaded guilty to corruption charges or spent time in jail for corruption.

[TwilightZone]

14. That was me.

And I was being sarcastic, though it's difficult to represent that in text. Warren and Ney are clearly not in the same ballpark.

[George II]

16. Sorry - I guess I read that wrong!

Being an ex-republican isn't disqualifying, but the type of person one was as a republican could be.

By the way, back in 1968 when I first voted (freshman in college, one of the first under-21 voters!) I was a republican. By 1971 that changed.

Sorry again for the misreading!!

[TwilightZone]

17. No worries; I wasn't clear.

I'm finding it kind of remarkable that Sanders supporters like TYT are holding up Bob Ney as an example of an endorsement to applaud. It's kind of mind-boggling. There would seem to be few people in recent memory who should be more reviled by Sanders supporters than Jack Abramoff. He would seem to epitomize everything they (and we and the rest of the civilized world) deplore.

[NurseJackie]

15. The whole thing makes me laugh! They're holding up Bob Ney's "endorsement"...

The whole thing makes me laugh! They're holding up Bob Ney's "endorsement" as a point of pride. Seriously? It's being boasted about as if it were some bright guiding light of truth that everyone should be drawn to. Fact of the matter is, Bob Ney's judgement is severely lacking. He has no moral compass.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6280001.stm

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-rep-bob-ney-gets-30-months-in-jail/

[wasupaloopa]

27. Reich was doing nthis in 2016 also. I lost all respect for him with his anti Hillary mems.

[NYMinute]

33. I am shocked !!

A TYT video praising BS. How often does that happen?

[floppyboo]

40. not a tyt video. not shocked by these kind of replies. nt

[NYMinute]

41. It is a remake of a TYT video. nt

[floppyboo]

43. no. Am I missing the sarcasm with the 'remake' remark?

It's a Rational National video. It features a tyt clip from '16, as well as some written remarks from Reich from '16 - demonstrating that 2 very different people from 2 very different camps agree that Sanders was a very effective legislator.

Or were you being sarcastic with the 're-make' remark?

[NYMinute]

44. It has a lot of content from TYT - thus it is a TYT video

The comments by Reich are also based on the TYT video.

The other person from a "different camp" (who resigned in disgrace due to a Federal indictment) was also on the TYT video.

There is a saying .. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ....

[floppyboo]

45. hahaha! funny!

edit to explain why this is funny:
The Reich content is not TYT. It's from a Reich livestream.
Maybe watch the video?

Using 2 different sources from differing points of view is pretty good journalism. One of the reasons you should switch your MSM channel often or you'll only get one side of the story.

[NYMinute]

46. Reich was on the TYT video

any content later created based on that video is still a TYT video.

How come you're defending your position so passionately? Are you ashamed of TYT?

[floppyboo]

47. Which video are you talking about??? Not the one I attached to the OP.

There is a tyt clip that runs till 2:23, then no more tyt clips. The printed bit is a transcript of a Reich livestream. Not TYT. The person asking the question is not a TYT person.
I keep defending my position because you are clearly wrong.

[questionseverything]

35. amendments are what really matters

the money for community clinics that treat the poorest of the poor comes from an amendment Bernie fought for as part of the aca

he took a bill and made it better

ron paul and him teamed up to get the fed audited

[TwilightZone]

39. "ron paul and him teamed up to get the fed audited" - false.

No, they didn't. Ron Paul disapproved of Sanders' version of the 2010 bill and said that Sanders "sold out". The bill never passed.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/96587-ron-paul-says-bernie-sanders-qsold-outq-on-fed-amendment

Sanders then voted for Rand Paul's version of the bill in 2016, which died in the Senate, as it should have, because it was nothing but a publicity stunt.

[questionseverything]

48. wrong

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-fed-audit

The Fed Audit
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. "As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world," said Sanders. "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."

Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. "No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president," Sanders said.

The non-partisan, investigative arm of Congress also determined that the Fed lacks a comprehensive system to deal with conflicts of interest, despite the serious potential for abuse. In fact, according to the report, the Fed provided conflict of interest waivers to employees and private contractors so they could keep investments in the same financial institutions and corporations that were given emergency loans.

For example, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served on the New York Fed's board of directors at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. Moreover, JP Morgan Chase served as one of the clearing banks for the Fed's emergency lending programs.

[ehrnst]

49. Well, if it's "wrong" how does one explain this?

Link to tweet

The audit is only allowed back to December 2007, which leaves most of the work of the Fed’s Open Markets Committee in the dark — they were the ones who were supposed to be watching over Wall Street when they were laying the groundwork for the collapse. And according to Jay Newton-Small of Time Magazine, there will only be one audit — it will not be ongoing.

Ron Paul and Alan Grayson worked like dogs to get this through the House. And the White House would not have gone to Sanders if they’d been able to peel off the votes to tank the amendment. But with 68 Senators having voted for it or cosponsored it in the past year, that was a heavy lift. Bernie was the weak link.

Moral of the story? Even when you have 60 votes, you don’t have 60 votes. We did what we were supposed to do. For a year. We whipped cosponsors. We beat back efforts to torpedo the bill. We worked with the libertarians to form a right-left coalition, the true “bipartisan” kind that you never see, on an issue that the public overwhelmingly supports: accountability for the banks. The votes were there in the Senate.

Bernie traded it all away.

https://shadowproof.com/2010/05/06/ron-paul-says-bernie-sanders-sold-out-sided-with-chris-dodd-to-gut-audit-the-fed/

And does any candidate, especially one that makes their brand as representing the 99%, really want the endorsement of an ex-politician convicted of bribery as part of the Jack Abramoff scandal? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-rep-bob-ney-gets-30-months-in-jail/

Ney was the first member of Congress to plead guilty to corruption charges in the scandal revolving around Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff – but that investigation continues and he might not be the last, CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss reports.

[myohmy2]

36. just goes to show...

...the broad widespread respect and appeal Bernie has...

...Bernie will make a great President capable of working with many across the aisle to get things done on behalf of the American people...

...make no mistake, Bernie's the real-deal if we want grow the middle class and restore our nation to it's proper place of honor and respect in the world...

...President Bernie Sanders...

[MrsCoffee]

42. Lol.

[ehrnst]

50. Well, his disapproval rating was the highest of Dem POTUS candidates among all voters

So I'm not sure about how "widespread" the respect and appeal Senator Sanders has as a candidate for POTUS.

[myohmy2]

54. it's still early...

...I can't imagine people voting for a Democratic Capitalist when they have a strong viable Democratic Socialist to choose from...

...I trust in the American people and in particular the wisdom and intelligence of the Progressive Democratic primary voter...

...keep the faith...

[ehrnst]

56. Well, personability is a big part of a candidate's appeal.

One needs to be able to deliver one's message in a way that indicates that one is a good listener as well as being a lecturer.

And one must be a good listener to be personable.

[Kurt V.]

51. i rec all sanders threads bc they're just so darn fun to read :)

[Fresh_Start]

53. totally agree nt

nt

[floppyboo]

55. Dang - I'm missing all your fun. Only see 28 of the 54 posts. Too much of a good thing in '16?

[Fresh_Start]

52. laughing at ridiculous assessment of Bernie being soul of humility nt

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