Bernie Sanders should be the next Senate Minority Leader

[BoyNextDoor]

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[sr71plt]

Bernie is in the Senate as an Independent. Wouldn't the minority leader be an actual Democrat?

 

[John Blackhawk]

Good question.....

Bernie is in the Senate as an Independent. Wouldn't the minority leader be an actual Democrat?

This is an excellent question but still even as a republican id support it just to balance out the political karma this election. Also just because it will put the cherry on top of Hillary Clinton's mental state.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't think Hillary Clinton would give a rat's ass that Bernie would declare as a Democrat--which he'd have to do if he wanted to be in the minority leadership, but which is a problem for him as he was elected by his constituency as an Independent--and become a Senate leader (which he never was before. He showed up for votes, and that was about it in his Senate history). I think that, like a lot of others, she'll be sitting back with a box of popcorn and watching Trump selling his support base out on each and every campaign pledge lie he made. What a surprise that he's doing this.

 

[domroger]

Being a party of one he is a minority leader .

 

[Hypoxia]

House and Senate party leadership posts are for organization animals, which Bernie ain't. I'd vote for him as national leader but not party leader. But that doesn't matter. All senior Demos will soon find themselves facing FBI and IRS probes and will join HRC in Leavenworth.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

It is time for the Democrats to start thinking of the party as a coalition.

 

[BotanyBoy]

It is time for the Democrats to start thinking of the party as a coalition.

LOL yea right....the neoLib majority is never going to get on board with anything other than sucking Wall St. and Monsanto off.

Most (D) voters are going to have to get honest about the fact that their reps/senators only differ from their republican buddies in rhetoric.

Quit lying to themselves thinking (D)+ promises of warm fuzzies n' welfare =/= progressive socialist that they desire.

 

[water505]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

I fully support this idea!

 

[underguy1]

I don't think Hillary Clinton would give a rat's ass that Bernie would declare as a Democrat--which he'd have to do if he wanted to be in the minority leadership, but which is a problem for him as he was elected by his constituency as an Independent--and become a Senate leader (which he never was before. He showed up for votes, and that was about it in his Senate history). I think that, like a lot of others, she'll be sitting back with a box of popcorn and watching Trump selling his support base out on each and every campaign pledge lie he made. What a surprise that he's doing this.

You really are a pathetic liar.

Have you no dignity?

 

[sr71plt]

You really are a pathetic liar.

Have you no dignity?

Oh, yeah, you're right. He sponsored two bills on naming post offices.

Having you call me a pathetic liar makes my little heart go pitter patter.

 

[JackLuis]

No Bernie is not the one to lead the Senate, advise certainly, but I think Liz should take Harry Reid's place. She has the drive to tell the truth to power and castigate the assholes who cross her path.

Bernie should form the Revolutionary Social Democratic party wing of the Democratic party. Addressing the concerns of the 98% because we buy all the shit the 2% sells! If we're broke, we don't buy the Junk that keeps the wheels turning.

The 2% needs to understand that if you squeeze the bottom too hard, it can elect a Trump! And if he does stick it to the corrupt system and term limits congress he will gore a lot of Oxen sacred to the God Mammon. But never fear if he should fall to the slings and arrows of his enemies and associates, Silver Mike is waiting to take charge in a purely Christian Way.

 

[JackLuis]

Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time

Chuck is Hillary's counterpart.

When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader — and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in America.

That’s a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face for opposition to Donald Trump:

He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, sagely explaining “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

Schumer’s done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional efforts to crack down on rating agencies.

He cares about flyover country?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Agreed on Schumer.

 

[underguy1]

Oh, yeah, you're right. He sponsored two bills on naming post offices.

Having you call me a pathetic liar makes my little heart go pitter patter.

You are a flat out liar.

You may well believe that to be true but it isn't. Personally I don't believe that you believe it.

You're an intentional liar.

 

[sr71plt]

Seems he's going to be the "Chair of Outreach" in addition to keeping his budget committee assignment.

 

[JackLuis]

Chuck Chucking Crumbs, but Bernie, and the Revolution, is not defeated!

No! Bernie and Liz are taking over the Democratic Establishment tools and will turn them into productive processes for the people!

Or so the story goes. Subdued but not discouraged!

 

[twistedsickmind]

I don't think Hillary Clinton would give a rat's ass that Bernie would declare as a Democrat--which he'd have to do if he wanted to be in the minority leadership, but which is a problem for him as he was elected by his constituency as an Independent--and become a Senate leader (which he never was before. He showed up for votes, and that was about it in his Senate history). I think that, like a lot of others, she'll be sitting back with a box of popcorn and watching Trump selling his support base out on each and every campaign pledge lie he made. What a surprise that he's doing this.

I agree with your assessment of Trump. I told many conservatives that supported Trump that if they believed he was a conservative, or that he would keep his promises, they were smoking something. I mean the really good stuff.

I don't believe that Trump has much in the way of core values. I think that he will do anything, say anything that will help constitute a "win". He donated a lot of money to Chuck Schumer. What conservative would do that? I think many Trump supporters are in for a rude awakening.

 

[sr71plt]

I agree with your assessment of Trump. I told many conservatives that supported Trump that if they believed he was a conservative, or that he would keep his promises, they were smoking something. I mean the really good stuff.

I don't believe that Trump has much in the way of core values. I think that he will do anything, say anything that will help constitute a "win". He donated a lot of money to Chuck Schumer. What conservative would do that? I think many Trump supporters are in for a rude awakening.

I think he'll probably nominate conservative (maybe not as reactionary as his supporters want) Supreme Court justices when he's given the chance, and that's pretty much what most of his voters sold their moral values out to get. So it may be enough of a bone for most of the them. There will always be those real nuts who thought he was promising them so much more, though. And they have guns.

 

[underguy1]

The fact that they've put Schumer in a position of power just proves that the Dems have learnt nothing.

They'd rather see Trump in power than a progressive.

Bernie tarnished his reputation by endorsing Clinton. He should try to win back some credibility by breaking completely with the party.

 

[VeraBad]

LOL yea right....the neoLib majority is never going to get on board with anything other than sucking Wall St. and Monsanto off.

Most (D) voters are going to have to get honest about the fact that their reps/senators only differ from their republican buddies in rhetoric.

Quit lying to themselves thinking (D)+ promises of warm fuzzies n' welfare =/= progressive socialist that they desire.

Really? The stock market has been going through the ceiling because Trump will let Wall Street get away with murder. You know dick about Wall Street, or money.

 

[underguy1]

Really? The stock market has been going through the ceiling because Trump will let Wall Street get away with murder. You know dick about Wall Street, or money.

You think the Ds are different?
Please give some examples of the Dems stopping Wall St's murders.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Really?

Really. If you think Democrats as a whole are progressive you're a fucking retard living in a delusional bubble.

The stock market has been going through the ceiling because Trump will let Wall Street get away with murder.

No it's been going though the ceiling because people are loosing their minds over the election, fear and greed is all that is going on.

You know dick about Wall Street, or money.

That has nothing to do with the fact that (D)'s as a political party aren't anywhere near as progressive as their fan club (you) like to pretend they are.

 

[ishtat]

Bernie Sanders is contemptible. Politics is about power, getting it, exercising, it and retaining it.

At the end of the day Sanders is about protest, only protest. It's the way the ineffectual make themselves feel important and morally superior, whilst achieving nothing of substance.

The D's need to look at their grass roots organization, pinch the brightest of Sanders young people and dump the old parasite in the deepest hole available.

Is Schumer the man for the job - probably not, but the R's can be relied upon to stuff up on their own. The right - versus the extra right - versus the White House is going to be entertaining.

 

[sr71plt]

Bernie Sanders is contemptible. Politics is about power, getting it, exercising, it and retaining it.

At the end of the day Sanders is about protest, only protest. It's the way the ineffectual make themselves feel important and morally superior, whilst achieving nothing of substance.

The D's need to look at their grass roots organization, pinch the brightest of Sanders young people and dump the old parasite in the deepest hole available.

Is Schumer the man for the job - probably not, but the R's can be relied upon to stuff up on their own. The right - versus the extra right - versus the White House is going to be entertaining.

I don't think Sanders is contemptible (mainly because I don't think he realized that all he was doing was soaking up power without reasonable expectation of getting a program enacted). I do think he is incapable of doing more than voicing legitimate concern. He needs others to actually do anything to make anything happen. He's certainly one of the reasons the Democrats lost this time. He soaked up effort and just provided deflecting noise.