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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:35 PM
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Sen Sanders: "I will be damned if we will balance the budget on the backs of the elderly.."
US Congressional 'Supercommittee' Faces Deadline on Budget Deal

"I will be damned if we will balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children and the poor," said Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. "That’s wrong.”


http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Congressional-Supercommittee-Faces-Deadline-on-Budget-Deal-134151013.html
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SomethingFishy Donating Member (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:44 PM
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1. We need to clone him. n/t
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cutlassmama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:49 PM
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3. Clone him about 60 times should do it.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:33 PM
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13. We need to draft him. nt
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:46 PM
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2. We've no right to call ourselves a civilized country if we dimiss his remarks
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:51 PM
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4. Yes, you will. n/t
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:52 PM
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5. I wish this man would run for President, I am liking and respecting him
more and more.
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:26 PM
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10. One of the very few in Congress who is worth a damn.
Most of them are useless or worse.

Keith Ellison and the rest of the Progressive Caucus are mostly pretty good, too. But Bernie never lets us down. Ever!
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:29 PM
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11. No doubt, he would win the biggest landslide victory in US history
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 01:58 PM
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6. LOVE Bernie --!! How sad that Obama/Dems didn't say that -- !!!
Bernie is a better democrat than all of them!!


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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 02:41 PM
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7. Once again thanks to a Senator that we can be sure will be
on our side every time.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:02 PM
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8. But Senator, most rethuglicans, by pledging their allegiance to Grover Norquist, and by doing so,
pledging their dis-allegiance to the Constitution, Democrats have no choice but to gut the big three, something rethuglicans have been orchestrating for years by starving the beast, because the mean ole rethuglicans have made Democrats do it or is it really because the RW controls all major branches of government? Can we all accept that anyone party to cutting the big three in the grand bargain in which the Speaker stated he got 98% of what he wanted, is in fact, undisputed-ly RW? Hint: RWers do and support RW policies, agenda, and goals and this is not rocket science. :patriot:
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sam11111 Donating Member (638 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:23 PM
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9. 1% have 16 Trillion.....no cuts needed at all
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:32 PM
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12. Bravo! Don't let them steal OUR MONEY to pay for their games!
That's all it is, stealing...from US, to put money in THEIR pockets.

And worse, to crash the economy so they can demand "austerity", which creates even more opportunity for power grabs, see Goldman Sachs advisors as new PMs in Greece and Italy...now it is happening here!
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 05:34 PM
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14. ^
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lindysalsagal Donating Member (444 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 07:42 PM
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15. Stoopid GOP will have to run on all of this obstructionism.
They never learn.
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