From Paul Ryan to Nikki Haley GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True

[jalan48]

The long-held Republican nightmare that a champion of working-class people and the common good—one who has dedicated his political career to curbing poverty and injustice while denouncing corporate greed, endless war, and the cruelty of a for-profit health system that leaves millions upon millions uninsured or without affordable access to care—would assume the powerful position of chairing the Senate Budget Committee is about to become reality.

"Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, and cutting defense spending," Nikki Haley tweeted Saturday.

Among the chief powers that the chair of the committee will be able to utilize is fostering legislation through the Senate using the budget reconciliation process—a procedural tool that will allow, even under current rules, legislation to pass with a simple majority.


"Yes, we can and we must use budget reconciliation to increase the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour with a simple majority vote in the Senate, just like Republicans did to pass massive tax breaks to the 1%," declared Warren Gunnels, one of Sanders' most senior aides who went out of the way to identify himself as the "Incoming Majority Staff Director" for the "Senate Budget Committee" in a tweet Friday morning.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/17/paul-ryan-nikki-haley-gop-nightmare-senate-budget-chair-bernie-sanders-about-come

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' With Gusto!

[JoeOtterbein]

2. K n R

Thanks for posting!

[RainCaster]

3. I am sooo looking forward to this!

[Glamrock]

4. Go Bernie!

Thanks for this post, wasn’t aware he was going to be chairing that committee. You so made my day!

[OnDoutside]

5. Good for Bernie, a deserved reward for working so hard for Joe.

It would be nice if everyone remembers that working together gets you nice things.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Two things need to happen Wednesday afternoon.

First is Senate Rule to ban the Filibuster. And the use of Reconciliation to pass major legislation,in ifs and's or butt's.

[birdographer]

14. Not sure

if we can get rid of all the butts, given all the republican senators, but we can try...

[Wellstone ruled]

22. Watch how Hassis cuts to the chase with

Senate Rules. Remember,Sanders is in full agreement with Joe and Kamala. Met Harris a couple times here in Vegas during Campaigns,she is not the waffle type. Ask her a question and she does not give you a stock response.

You will see the Impeachment as well as Senate business happen in real time on the same days. Interesting will be the new Senate Sessions calendar. Are we in for 7 day work sessions? Kinda think so.

Notice Lady G trying his best to muddy the waters today,he knows the Nation is about to take a mega swing to the left and the Klukkers are heading to the Stockade .

[flying_wahini]

32. Yes! I hope they will do this day 1.

[GulfCoast66]

34. We don't have the votes to ban the filibuster. At least 2 democratic Senators are opposed.

But reconciliation is a must.

[Wellstone ruled]

37. Feinstein is just a chair warmer

Durbin had the talk weeks ago. Manchin will go along,he knows his possible Committee Chair appointment hangs.

[PufPuf23]

7. Sanders being named Senate Budget Committee Chair is a great signal

of Democratic Party unity heading into the Biden Administration.

Very encouraging.

[JudyM]

36. He was the senior Dem member of the Committee

I don’t think Biden had anything to do with it.

But he’s going to rawk and we are going to love every minute of it!

[Baked Potato]

8. Oh No! Progressive agenda! FU Never Nikki!

[Shoonra]

9. The real nightmare .....

.... is that, during the Trump regime, the Republicans were deaf, dumb, and blind to the ballooning federal deficit, which seemed completely invisible to Republicans.
Now that Biden is President, Republicans suddenly see the enormous Trump-caused deficit and will use that to try to cripple every Biden program.

[a kennedy]

11. That has been their MO for EVERY Democratic Presidency.

[Escurumbele]

10. Somebody needs to remind Nikki and the other republican idiots that Theodore Roosevelt, a republican

was also a PROGRESSIVE, and one of the best presidents the USA has ever had. FDR may be 1st, followed by Teddy.

republicans avoid talking about Teddy Roosevelt because they know he was a progressive, so now they want to turn progressive into socialism. These people are such hypocrites.

[rwsanders]

17. I don't know much about his presidency, but Eisenhower would be considered a raging socialist lefty

based on his "Cross of Iron" speech by the current GOP and minions.

[matt819]

12. OMG

Say it ain't so, irrelevant former governor. Egads, money for health care. Please, not healthcare. We got used to expecting a new health care plan in two weeks, for more than 200 weeks. And we liked it that way. And dealing with climate change? Not that also?! You mean this radical, leftist, socialist administration will spend money to ensure that red southern states may not be destroyed by sea level rise? What next? Infrastructure? Surely you jest. Spending on highways, bridges, tunnels, and dams? Not that, surely. Does the evil of these radicals never end? It doesn't, you say? OMG, raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. No, not that. Then mere working people might be able to afford groceries. And rent. I can understand your opposition to that. I'll bet your fellow South Carolinians will oppose that. And thank goodness, I say.

Oh, and btw, you were irrelevant at the UN, you're irrelevant now. You shouldn't volunteer your idiotic thoughts on anything, and no one - I repeat, no one - should ask you for a quote on anything.

[JohnnyRingo]

30. Amen

Expect republicans to announce next month they were ready to present their plans in a couple weeks when democrats took over.

[Beachnutt]

13. YaaaY Bernie,...SSSIK EM.

[JDC]

15. Nikki Haley is garbage

[ShazzieB]

19. Amen to this.

[OMGWTF]

23. Yes she is. Bernie is a DEMOCRATIC Socialist FFS! She did that on purpose.

Have I told you lately how much I fking loathe Republicans?

[Blasphemer]

16. That's a good position for him... nt

[Hortensis]

18. :) The senate isn't exactly a collection of renegades. We can expect

him to do a bunch of grandstanding, but in the end, senior or not, if he didn't further the Democratic agenda he'd be replaced. Rare, but not impossible. Also, since the committee will be half Republican, he has to get along with them too. Let's hope he's serious about producing. Cooperation and compromise will be required. He knows. He's been there a long time, that's how this happened.

One thing, as a committee chairman, even if he refuses to perform some of the traditional chair duties, he'll likely be working harder than he has since coming to DC. He'll no longer be a self-sidelined indie mainly criticizing and then voting for the product of Democrats.

[betsuni]

35. The establishment now good!

[calimary]

21. Gee, Nikki. Gee, Paul. What a terrible shame that the overlooked will have

THEIR interests seriously noted, cared about, and acted upon.

Gee, what a shame...

[ancianita]

24. Go, Bernie! Give 'em hell!

On all these other committees, too!

Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesSubcommittee on Energy
Subcommittee on National Parks
Subcommittee on Water and Power

Committee on Environment and Public WorksSubcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife
Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsSubcommittee on Children and Families
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security (Ranking)

Committee on the Budget (Ranking)

Committee on Veterans' Affairs

[sarchasm]

25. Time for Republicans to admit to the reality...

... that their divisive, dog-whistling rhetoric is all they have, and needs to be called out no matter how trivial.

In 2017 I never heard anything like, "Time to face the harsh reality, fascist Mike Enzi will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee."

If they want unity, this would be a good place to start by not calling people something they do not call themselves. If they ever need to learn something from the last 4 years this would be a good place to start.

[Beartracks]

26. "progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure... "

Why exactly do Republicans fear these things?

It's clear that a conservative agenda on these matters is not producing beneficial results, or there wouldn't be the massive deficiencies anyone can readily observe around them.

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[Roy Rolling]

27. "Not President"

The position of not president for Bernie isn’t a failure to win the presidency. Sure, it’s an election defeat, but him as Senate Finance chair is a perfect fit for his talents in 2021. With the exception of Elizabeth Warren, nobody is as perfectly suited and prepared for being a steward of U.S. finances in the Senate. Go Bernie.

[PatrickforO]

28. I can't think of a better person than Bernie to take this post. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

29. Oh no!! Not healthcare, infrastructure, and climate!

Why does Bernie hate America so much?

Does he not know further tax cuts and deregulation will fix all those with the invisible hand of the free market? it's worked so far.

[Jon King]

31. The 4 year 2 month reign of terror is almost over....

Went to Great Clips this morning, elderly black lady cutting hair and me the only customer. An hour conversation about how terrifying the past 4 plus years have been since election night 2016. She says the young folks and women in her community say never again, never be disengaged, work with the Dems even if not at the pace they want.

The Repubs should NEVER be near the Presidency again. We have the demographic trends in every swing state along with a young and energetic group of new voters. Trump must be the peak of their sick reign and their power must decrease with each election cycle.

Repubs either moderate and join us, or forever be in the wilderness.

[flying_wahini]

33. Nikki Haley doesn't give a rats ass. She is running for POTUS and needs her sound bites for later.

She is just a narrow minded Faux News Republican.