Interesting to look back in time

[Quixote1818]

422 to 40

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026592890

[PatSeg]

1. Bizarre

[Autumn]

2. This will be an interesting thread to watch considering Hillary's comments today.

[Hav]

4. I wasn't aware all these poll participants

were members of the House or the Senate. That's fascinating.

[Autumn]

5. Did anyone but you say they were members of the House or the Senate?

[Hav]

6. You were the one mentioning Hillary's comments

that were about Bernie's fellow members of Congress and somehow thought this poll had any kind of relevance to her comments.

[Autumn]

7. She said a lot more than the comment on Bernie's fellow members of Congress. I pay attention.

[Hav]

9. Yeah, she said nobody likes him and wants to work with him (in Congress, not DU polls)

That's why he's a career politician getting nothing done. The truth hurts.

[Autumn]

10. She's wrong. Have a nice day, I'm done with this conversation.

[BannonsLiver]

12. That's not true!

Bernie gets a lot done. Post offices don’t name themselves!

[Autumn]

14. You wish that was all he did..

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-attack-hollywood-reporter-fact-check.html#comments

The notion that Sanders “got nothing done” over his long tenure in Washington is also untrue. During his 16 years in the House, Sanders passed more amendments than any other member of Congress, shoehorning small progressive wins into must-pass legislation. In 2016, the Observer’s Michael Sainato compiled this summary of Sanders’s minor victories:

He kicked off his political career with an amendment to start a National Program of Cancer registries, which is now maintained by all 50 states. In 2001, he successfully passed an amendment to the general appropriations bill which banned the importation of goods made with child labor, and passed an amendment to increase funding by $100 million for community health centers … When Mr. Sanders was elected to the Senate in 2006, he continued pushing amendments through legislation, including securing $10 million in additional funds for the Army National Guard, providing financial assistance for childcare to people in the armed forces, exposing corruption in the military industrial complex, support in treating autism in the military’s healthcare system and ensuring bailout funds weren’t used to displace American workers.

During negotiations over the Affordable Care Act, meanwhile, the senator found a way to make Barack Obama’s health-care bill more progressive — and more appealing to conservative Senate Democrats — at the same time. As the fact-checker Politifact writes:
As negotiations were in their final stage, Sanders successfully pushed for the inclusion of $11 billion in funding for community health centers, especially in rural areas. The insertion of this funding helped bring together both Democratic lawmakers on the left and Democrats representing more conservative, rural areas.

On occasion, Sanders has managed to assemble bipartisan congressional support for his goals, partnering with John McCain to pass a reform of the Veterans Affairs administration in 2014, and with Utah Republican Mike Lee to pass a resolution calling for the end of U.S. involvement in Yemen’s civil war just last year. One can reasonably argue that Sanders’s ideological isolation — and aversion to backslapping — limited his legislative productivity as a Congress member, and thus that a more moderate, jovial Democrat would be more likely to “get things done” as president. On the other hand, many of the bipartisan “things” that Congress “got done” over the past three decades were not worth doing. Regardless, Clinton’s characterization of Sanders’s record is patently false.

[Hav]

3. What's also interesting is how many of those are gone

Whether by ban, not agreeing to the TOS or just leaving after the Dem voters in the real world chose wisely.

[Skid Rogue]

8. Looks like...

Putin's dropping the ball a bit.

[herding cats]

11. Thanks for an interesting reminder for me of how different things are today from 2015.

Before 2016 I supported him running for President.

Today, I won't be voting for him in the primary.

[BannonsLiver]

13. Wow, dark days.

This is a great reminder things can always be worse.

[ismnotwasm]

15. Wow so many ppr'd or booted.