Sanders Makes Gregg Eat His Socialist Europe Meme (now w/ vid link)
by Dean Barker
Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 06:01:02 PM PDT
This is classic, and a welcome antidote to the Judd Gregg anti-Obama Budget 24/7 media show:
Gregg introduced an amendment (defeated) that would have required 60 Senate votes for budget resolutions that don't meet the European Union standard of limiting debt to 30 percent of GDP.
"We're in such a bad situation in this nation right now... that actually look good," Gregg said.
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Sanders pounced.
"I'm glad to hear that my neighbor from New Hampshire is suddenly interested in Europe," he said. "And maybe we can take a hard look at the fact that virtually every European country has a national health-care program guaranteeing health care to all of their people, spending substantially less per capita than we do in this country -- maybe we can add that. And maybe we can look at the fact that while we have 18 percent of our kids living in poverty, our European friends in some cases have 3 or 4 percent of their children living in poverty. And maybe while our families have to spend $40,000 a year to send our kids to college, they do it virtually free. So I like the idea of opening up the discussion about the pros and cons of Europe, but it is broader than my friend from New Hampshire is talking about."
This is exactly what I meant when I lamented that we need to return fire with fire on Judd Gregg's attempt to kill the health care, climate change, and education budget priorities we voted into office. Too bad it happened on C-Span and during one of Gregg's interminable death by amendment sideshows and not on, say, Tweety's show. Because we all know that the Villagers enjoy reporting on their own worlds more than the actual machinery of government.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/30/714780/-Sanders-Makes-Gregg-Eat-His-Socialist-Europe-Meme
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