Sanders Threatens Floor Fight at Dem Convention

[still_one]

" Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is threatening a floor fight over rules and platform planks at the party's summer convention if the Democratic National Committee stacks the committees with supporters of Hillary Clinton.

Sanders writes in a letter to Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz that the makeup of the standing committees should reflect the level of support that he and Clinton received in the primaries and caucuses.

He says many of his supporters have not been included and notes Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will be in charge of the convention's platform committee and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank will run the rules committee. He calls both "aggressive attack surrogates" for Clinton."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-britain-off-eu-38924521

I have one comment to Sanders, go back to Vermont, I am really tired of your whining bullshit. Maybe you can start another lawsuit, or better yet, why not join Larry Klayman and judicial watch, that is more your style

[Buzz Clik]

1. Again?

[SaschaHM]

2. Someone wants some press attention.

Hillary won. Her supporters should run the rules committee.

[Her Sister]

3. So tired of this crap!

Hard to be patient with this loser and whiner!
Already lost!


We got a nominee!

[still_one]

6. Kick and Rec++++++++

[livetohike]

4. Oh please proceed Independent Senator. Please

come to the Democratic Party convention and let us know how things should be. Can't wait to see you get booed.

[Blue Idaho]

5. Not terribly surprising...

Bernie has had a lifelong hatred of the Democratic Party so why wouldn't he try to destroy it on his way out the door?

[Thinkingabout]

7. Now this makes the super delegates more important, we do not need to have a hostile take over by

those who are not Democrats, he can go back to the Liberty Union party if they will allow him to return. Where in the hell is his integrity?

[stopbush]

8. No one is listening.

If anything, these threats only embolden the DNC to find ways to marginalize Sanders at the convention.

I have never seen a losing team trying to dictate terms to the winners. It's as if the Carolina Panthers told the Denver Broncos that they can have the Super Bowl trophy as long as the Panthers get the trip to Disneyland, the victory parade and the photo-op at the WH.

[ismnotwasm]

9. This is pathetic

Just sad.

[stopbush]

10. Sanders will have a LOWER % of the delegates at the end

of the primary season than he has now.

If he was less greedy, he'd drop out now while the margin of defeat is smaller than it will be in a month's time.

Idiot.

[workinclasszero]

11. OK kids...

Who will benefit from Bernie throwing bombs in the convention?

It ain't democrats.....

[stonecutter357]

12. Time to primary BS and his bro's.

[IamMab]

13. +1000! nt

[Stuckinthebush]

31. I had an OP censored for saying that

So say it louder!

Primary his ass! He's a menace.

[Hekate]

42. Vermonters, answer the call! Your country needs you to retire this alta kaka...

...before his finger explodes!

[pandr32]

14. I've got news for you Mr. Sanders

You are again threatening Debbie Wasserman Schultz with havoc--not unity. Gov. Malloy and Rep. Frank are Democrats. How can you assail them because they have important roles at the Democrat Convention?

It is you, Sir, who is the problem--not everybody else.

[SunSeeker]

15. I am so sick of the Sanders tantrums.

If he cares about the Democratic Party so much, why did he not join it until 6 months ago--when he was forced to in order to get on the primary ballot? And why is he designated as an Independent on his Senate re-election run?

The time for the sort of changes he is demanding is well before the convention, in the unglamorous work of sitting in Dem Party meetings. The convention is the time to show party UNITY, not discord.

[displacedtexan]

16. Why does this not surprise me?

I thought he would try something, but what does he gain by pulling this stunt now, in early May? My guess: fundraising.

I hope he continues these attacks against beloved Elected Dems. Every one of his attacks makes him look smaller and smaller.

[sarae]

22. I agree

It's just making him look like an egocentric "entitled" asshole who's out of touch with reality.

[sufrommich]

17. His campaign is throwing red meat to potential donors.

1.Write angry letter to the DNC

2.Release angry letter to media.

3.Profit.



They must be feeling a serious financial squeeze. This is desperation.

[Agnosticsherbet]

18. He should go to Clinton right now and negotiate for what he wants in the platform.

I am sure she will be happy to have him work with her.

[LiberalFighter]

19. Sanders is efn delusional. That is the only explanation.

Sanders doesn't own the Democratic Party. He is making more and more enemies with his behavior.

[LisaM]

20. I'm starting to blame Thom Hartmann for this

For years, his radio show featured "Brunch with Bernie", which seemed to showcase a rather avuncular, sane-sounding regular Joe, who'd take questions from listeners. I admit I was duped. I'd always wonder, for example, why this nice guy was never featured on shows like "Meet the Press".

Well, I don't wonder any more. I'm now kind of replaying in my mind the times I listened to him answer listener's questions and it came flooding over me that he simply responded to questions with talking points. He never offered solutions. He never had any new or solid proposals. He hung almost everything he or any other elected official has done on the Iraq War Resolution (which, by the way, he didn't even vote for or against because he was not in the Senate at the time - his vote was on a different resolution).

In reality, he seems didactic and aggressive, he shouts down contrary points of view, and has created a contingent of supporters who seem willing to dispense with any civility whatsoever (disrupting the Snohomish County Democratic Convention in Washington and the behavior at Hillary's event last night are just two recent examples of this behavior). I feel kind of sorry for his more mild-mannered supporters, but there is clearly something in his candidacy that is unloosing some really mean behavior that very much mirrors the anger and misbehavior of Trump supporters - and his supporters don't even see it.

I'd be curious to hear Hartmann's take on some of this wild crowd behavior (he's a soft spoken guy himself). I don't know if he simply excuses Sanders and these tactics or if he is just finding out about this side of Bernie too.

[sarae]

21. really??

FFS

the makeup of the standing committees should reflect the level of support that he and Clinton received in the primaries and caucuses.

THEY DO! He just can't accept reality. Even if they made it exactly correlate to the level of support, within a decimal point, HE WOULD LOSE.

[DemonGoddess]

23. He's going to keep going on this

tangent, and continue having a long, drawn out tantrum. I have this urge to start sending him and his campaign pacifiers.

[MSMITH33156]

24. LOL

So the loser wants to complain about the makeup of the platform committee? He LOST. What is this nonsense?

[BlueCaliDem]

25. I am so done with that grifter. So effing done.

Go back to Vermont, soreloser. You know damn well YOU LOST. The only people who want you to be president are the fringes and Republicans. Democrats - REAL Democrats - don't want your saggy behind anywhere near the White House.

[William769]

26. Ditto on your comment. nt

[Rose Siding]

27. Uh, Barney Frank has been speaking his mind on BS since 1991

Long before Hillary's aspirations even took shape!

Said Rep. Barney Frank, in ’91: “Bernie alienates his natural allies. His holier-than-thou attitude—saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else—really undercuts his effectiveness.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-2016-democrats-121181_Page2.html#ixzz47txhF0kD

[still_one]

28. Boy did Barney Frank nail that one

[Her Sister]

29. Like Trump, BS likes to sue sue sue

and sue some more. Suing Sanders

Wondering why?

[SharonClark]

30. I want to see the list of people he thinks should be running those committees

He does know they have to be trusted Democrats of long-standing, not people who joined the party this year. I'm tired of this self-righteous and arrogant 'do nothing'.

[Koinos]

32. I question his sanity.

He's hundreds of delegates short of a convention.

[NastyRiffraff]

33. So, Bernie, who SHOULD be included?

The Bernie or Bust bunch? Thom Hartmann? Chris Hayes? Really, is anyone pure enough?

If he pulls this bullshit at the convention he will be and should be loudly booed and escorted out for disruption. This wouldn't be a legal floor fight; it would be deliberately trying to disrupt the convention. I hope his fucking finger falls off.

[skylucy]

36. LOL "I hope his fucking finger falls off"! LOL LOL LOL LOL As a recently retired

kindergarten teacher, who spent my career putting five-year-olds in "time out" for having potty mouth, I want to let you know that this is the first time I have ever used the word "fucking" when posting on the internet (without using **** to bleep out some of the letters). Thank you for getting me over the hump and making me laugh! That fucking finger of Bernie's has driven me nuts at every debate.

[NastyRiffraff]

43. It's not a word I use all the time but

it seemed fitting here.

[skylucy]

49. I agree with you about that!

[uponit7771]

48. lol

[George II]

34. Hopefully he/they will get booed down and back off like he was facing BLM protesters.

[jrandom421]

35. And what kind of outburst

will Bernie have when he gets humiliated by losing the state by state roll call vote on national TV, and Hillary is declared the nominee?

[Walk away]

37. Who does he want to take Malloy and Frank's place? Susan Sarandon and Killer Mike????

This old crank has seriously lose his mind.

[Cha]

38. Of course, he does... he can't stand he's such a loser.. it's driving him nuts! He has nothing to

to stand on.

thanks,stillone

[Squinch]

39. What an asshole.

[BlueMTexpat]

40. Bernie Begone!

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[Hekate]

41. You know, Bernie is going to end up a truly hated man if he keeps this up. His supporters...

...are disrupting Hillary in California. is that even about?!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/hordes-of-sanders-supporters-shut-down-clinton-event-in-la-shes-not-with-us/comments/#disqus

They need to be at the Trump rally, not smashing up a Democratic candidate's rally.

This is the scorched earth behavior his bros here have been threatening all along. Now we see it in action -- if Sanders does not call these people off and denounce this behavior, we will know for sure that it is not about winning any more, but about destroying the Democratic Party even if we end up with the vulgar talking yam proto-fascist in the White House.

This is pissing me off.

[Tarheel_Dem]

44. I am struck by how similar the BS & Trump campaigns have become. They think they can bully....

their way to the nomination. That might work for Trump's idiots, but I don't see these BSers getting in the face of Maxine Waters & Elijah Cummings. And if they do, let me know where I can send flowers.

[uponit7771]

47. +1

[apcalc]

45. You come to my house...

And tell me what to do?

Hmmpf...I think not.

[uponit7771]

46. Anyone else being left with a bad impression of socialist? First Nader now Sanders, both seem to wan

... want to burn the town down to save it.