Sanders Statement on Senate Debt Vote

[cal04]

http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=75f2ef69-95c1-4bfe-bb9b-6495d763c11e

Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement today after he voted against a Senate deficit- reduction proposal:

"The Republicans have been absolutely determined to make certain that the rich and large corporations not contribute one penny for deficit reduction, and that all of the sacrifice comes from the middle class and working families in terms of cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, LIHEAP, community health centers, education, Head Start, nutrition, MILC, affordable housing and many other vitally important programs.

"I cannot support legislation like the Reid proposal which balances the budget on the backs of struggling Americans while not requiring one penny of sacrifice from the wealthiest people in our country. That is not only grotesquely immoral, it is bad economic policy."

[Autumn]

1. "That is not only grotesquely immoral, it is bad economic policy."

Got that right K/R

[Waiting For Everyman]

7. +1 on that too.

[Doctor_J]

19. It's also terrible politics, which the president is going to discover next year

and then we will face the wrath of the DINOs for not playing along

[colorado_ufo]

28. K&R

[Warren Stupidity]

2. I finally found a Democrat!

oh wait...

[Autumn]

3. I'm still a registered Democrat but I think I will change

to Bernie's party.

[Union Thug]

4. Sanders is one of very few in our government who speaks for me.

I dream of the day that Obama, Reid and the rest of the spineless shills who ran with a D but govern with an R can articulate a sincere and progressive position, but I suspect it's just that - a dream.

[sasha031]

5. thank you Cal, and this is from the 1st Reid proposal

I watched Bernie in the Senate this morning, after voting everyone was jovial. Shaking hands, chatting ...

Bernie was alone, people did not cross over to talk to him. As far as I could tell, he left.
Bernie is the best we have...

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[hayrow]

8. Well, Bernie Sanders pretty much says it all

Obama leads us to surrender and disaster again. As a famous boxer, Roberto Duran, once said "No Mas".

[eilen]

9. So, will he filibuster? nt

[ProSense]

10. If Senator Sanders is right, then

these 49 Democrats just sold out Americans

YEAs ---50

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

From what I understand, the Reid plan does not touch Social Security and Medicare.

[WVRICK13]

24. It Does Touch Medicare

By cutting payments to providers. The White House Press Secretary said today it does not affect the seniors. Smoke up the ass, if providers stop serving the patients because of the payments or lack thereof it does affect seniors. If they can get a doctor it will be a doctor who is substandard and will take any patients they can get.

[colorado_ufo]

29. Absolutely!

I worked for docs for over 20 years, and I am old enough to remember many of them fighting Medicare. Even today, many will cap how many Medicare patients they will take, by one method or another. Cut doctors' payments, raise their malpractice premiums, erode patient/physician confidentiality, increase their paperwork (almost every doctor has to hire a separate person just to handle insurance issues), and see if that doesn't affect Seniors - and everyone else, as well!

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[readmoreoften]

14. Or maybe this site will promote those who fight for democracy instead of a party of plutocrats

And maybe the decent Dem congressfolks will leave with them.

[abelenkpe]

12. Exactly right nt

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[indepat]

15. Grotesquely immoral times 10 to the 29th power and perversely so

:patriot:

[Shagbark Hickory]

16. He didn't say he didn't support the reid proposal. He said he didn't support legislation "LIKE" the

reid proposal.

Gotta read those statements carefully.

[democrank]

17. Geez.........

How did someone with a spine get the attention?

[Doctor_J]

20. he didn't. You have to go to his own web page to read this

you won't hear it on hate radio or cabal news.

[Kaleko]

18. A lone voice speaks out with integrity

in this cesspool of a whorehouse Congress.

[femrap]

21. K and R....love Bernie. nt

[indepat]

22. Grotesquely immoral times 10 to the 29th power and perversely so

:patriot:

[Major Hogwash]

23. Hope he threatens to filibuster the debt deal.

Before Reid gives away the farm.

[treestar]

25. What does Bernie propose instead?

[Octafish]

27. Tax the rich and the corporations.

They're the ones making a killing off war and 30 years of trickle-down economics.

[treestar]

30. Has he introduced a bill with this plan?

[WVRICK13]

26. Amazing

Obama did what no Republican President could manage. He pulled the safety net our from under the working poor.