Bernie Sanders’ Tussle With Nussle

[babylonsister]

Bernie Sanders’ Tussle With Nussle
by Terence Samuel

If Jim Nussle wants to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, he is going to have to get around Bernie Sanders, who announced yesterday that he will put a hold on Nussle’s nomination to prevent it from coming to a vote in the Senate.

In the latest and perhaps most daring example yet of the politics of hope, Sanders said the hold will stay in place until the Bush administration starts talking sense about the economy.

The freshman senator from Vermont says he is so fed up with the propaganda coming out of the Bush White House that he intends to block the OMB nomination until the president acknowledges that the economy is hurting poor people.

“I am so sick and tired of the Bush Administration telling us how good and robust the economy is, when everyone knows that it’s not true.” Sanders told me this week. Yesterday, the Senate Budget Committee voted to send the Nussle nomination to the full Senate for consideration. Sanders was the only no vote.

“I want an OMB director who will educate the American people about the realities of the economy,” Sanders said. “You have five million people who have slipped into poverty in the last six years, and yet we have a president who keeps telling us how robust the economy is.”

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/04/2983/

[Douglas Carpenter]

1. good one for Bernie --- K&R

[OregonBlue]

2. RECESS APPOINTMENT TIME!!!!

[Bozita]

3. video of Bernie handing Nussle his ass in Senate confirmation hearings

Really good stuff.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=279887

[izzie]

4. would be nice if they all did their jobs like Sanders. To many are

sure they should be President and I do not think one has made it from the Sen. to the WH since Kennedy. That is a life time ago.

[sarcasmo]

5. Bernie is the only one out of both parties who isn't' a Corporate Whore.