Both Clintons are wrong. The CFMA was highly instrumental in near economic collapse

of several nations in 2008. Gramm, Leach, Blilely, aka repeal of Glass Steagall, also played a role. Both were lobbied for by the Clinton White House so that Clinton could later claim a so-called "veto proof majority." Bill refuses to take responsibility, which usually works for him.

Sanders voted against Gramm, Leach Bliley. When he voted for the CFMA in the House, the language that caused the problems in the economy was not in the bill. That language was added later, in a Senate compromise. Ultimate, the bill was wrapped into several appropriations bills, totaling 11,000 pages and rammed through.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778045

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1277&pid=9158

Democratic members of Congress later described a period in late September through early October during which they were excluded from negotiations over reconciling the three committee versions of H.R. 4541, followed by involvement in reaching an acceptable compromise that left some Republicans unhappy with the final version of the bill and some Democrats upset over the "process", particularly the involvement of Sen. Gramm and House Republican leadership in the negotiations.[58] Despite indications no agreement would be reached, on October 19, 2000, the White House announced its "strong support" for the version of H.R. 4541 scheduled to reach the House Floor that day.[59] The House approved H.R. 4541 in a 377-4 vote.[60]

While a Senator, she had zero success working with Republicans to get bills she wrote passed,

except for strictly ceremonial bills, such as re-naming a post office, remembering Harriet Tubman's birthday and remembering the anniversary of the American Revolution. She could not even get her two unconstitutional flag desecration bills passed.Since then, she has been gratuitously disrespectful to Republicans, calling them the enemy of which she is most proud and acting a certain way during the Benghazi hearings. (For that matter, she could not even get Billarycare through a Democratic Congress when her husband was head of the Democratic Party.)

Contradistinctively, Bernie and McCain worked on a veterans' bill that passed. The Brookings Institute made a case study in working across the aisle. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/how-bernie-sanders-fought-for-our-veterans-119708 See also, http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/71225/bernie-sanders-is-loud-stubborn-socialist-republicans-like-him-anyway

Your turn: you tell me what evidence you have that Hillary can get things done with Republicans better than Bernie can.

It's been a while since my last Host/Group Appreciation Thread.

Once again, I thank the outstanding hosts of this group, living and dead, active, AWOL and otherwise occupied.

1 Autumn (head host and doing a great job)
2 Puglover (doing a great job)
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4 woo me with science (AwayWithout Leave and greatly missed)
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10 Prism (doing a great job)

You do an outstanding job and I/we really appreciate it.

Thanks too, to my fellow supporters of Bernie Sanders. Keep volunteering for Bernie, keep donating through OS's actblue link, here or at Jackpineradical.org and keep standing up for yourselves and for each other.

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