He should carry a package of Tums with him. Works for me!

empty room is totally in character.

They were included in the bill DAYS before yesterday's vote. The negotiations were ongoing as he was doing his online rock concert Sunday night.

Crap. Crickets from every other senator. He did well.

Sanders wasn't even there when it counted.

Showing up at the last minute does not bode well for him.

What the gop tried to do was rubbish, and he was there when it mattered. I'm no fan of sanders but I'm not going to pretend he hasn't done his part.

Hadn’t already taken care of?

Yell at some clouds after the deal was done?

Any two-bit schmuck can do that from deep in the back benches.

Almost a whole year!

Meaning yearly. No such thing as a 2 week anniversary

But I like it.

The credit goes to Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Elizabeth Warren, and others - our LEADERS in the House and Senate.

Cough into your sleeve, cover your sneeze with a Kleenex and do not spit. WASH YOUR HANDS!

Good to see he finally returned to the Senate. Sadly the job was done, negotiations finished, the long hours our Senators put in finally paid off. He came back for the vote after they did the heavy lifting.

However there was a song about it in Sister Act I or II.

Ugh.

Signing on after the work is done.

He will claim "Fighting" for it as one of his accomplishments.

He's burned all of his own bridges at this point

to an empty house after all have left so that he can send it all over the media suggesting that he has been a part of the process?

they will bring them in in small groups to vote. AT least that's what the House said it would do, and probably the Senate is doing the same.

But I doubt many are watching their colleagues on video.

...other speakers had more in attendance in person.

In fact, he was one of the last Senators to speak prior to the vote.

To doing the actual hard work that Pelosi, Schumer and Warren were doing.

Funny how this self-serving back bencher showed up only when the deal was done and then started stealing credit for the work real Democrats did.

The HOUSE version of the bill did not include the funds he objected to, had more in help for working people, students, hospitals, local governments, etc, and was already being negotiated into the Senate bill. As usual, Sanders is a flashy PR Empty Suit. Thank goodness he doesn't actually negotiate or work. He just makes speeches that sucker his fans.

People who work, and negotiate did a good job making a horrible bill decent. We can't stop all sleaze, and we can't get everything we want as the GOP has the Senate and the Presidency, but our DEMOCRATS made the bill much better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/26/cruise-line-bailout/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&wpisrc=al_business__alert-politics--alert-economy&wpmk=1

Enough said

And Sirota supporter.

That might put us in a whole new ball-game.

Just imagine the debates, Sanders opens up and hawks a gob of real honest to God sizzling fire at his opponent's podium!

Now that would be something to see....

Millions of people who needed it most benefited from that principled stand.

Democrats worked night and day to hammer this out while Bernie sat in his home in VT. He only came back to vote when the work was done.

Why was he not in Washington? It is his job. 174 per year. Repeat 174K per year.

long before he returned from his time off in VT.

Go Democrats!

The blockage was from four Republican Senators who initially disobeyed orders from McConnell in the matter. McConnell wanted the bill passed as is, and does not tolerate insubordination, at least not insubordination that goes beyond a few short-lived gestures. The grand 'Bernie' speech, stirring as it may have been, can have had no more actual effect than possibly to have given cover for the four Republican dissidents to submit to McConnell's demand for their votes in assent without too much ruffling of feathers all around. Everyone involved, from Speaker Pelosi and Sen Schumer, through McConnell and McCarthy, clear down to Trump itself, wanted the bill passed in the form it was presented, and except when the four Republican dissidents spoke to themselves, they heard nothing from anyone but demands they strike their colors and end their foolishness. Sanders threat, that he would hold up the bill by some manipulation of the rules, was as empty as the gestures of the four Republican dissidents. It would not have been tolerated by leadership of either side, and could not have stood more than a few hours. This is not some Frank Capra movie, grand speeches on the Senate floor nowadays move no one by the time the actual vote looms, and neither side of this showboating kerfuffle had any real threat at their disposal. Without a real threat, there is no leverage, and nothing is moved.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

I think McConnell has no bottom and it is my opinion that McConnell allowed the challenge to test for an additional concession before passage.

"Children make the best opponents at Scrabble, as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat."

All right then.

"I am a man with principles, and chief among them is flexibility."

Very clever response sir.

But I won't.

Beelzebub's bedtime has arrived.

Be well.

Here is an item which seems to bear on our exchange, just posted up here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213183689

I freely acknowledge it may serve to strengthen your case, though I remain convinced of my view.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

So far you’re giving credit for something real Democrats did to someone who had nothing to do with the final bill, but yelling at some clouds after all was settled and done.

4 repukes weren’t putting a dent in anything that 92 others were already on board with. They were doing exactly what BS was doing: Making noise to look good to the peanut gallery while doing zilch in reality.

Pelosi already had it stripped out and an agreement in it while this slackers was navel-gazing in Vermont.

Good job, Sanders!



Good job, Team!

After everything was already settled and done by real Democrats while this poser sat in his ass in Vermont.

Has zero concept of what team means, because there’s no I in it. He has no idea how to work with others, only how to yell for credit that he did nothing to earn.

Explains why he has such a pitiful legislative record, despite 30 years in DC.

Just wanted to be the one who gets this thread a flame on the summary page.

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Bernie, shrugging off a slew of missed votes, at long last emerges from isolating. He creakily ascends the dais and strikes the usual pose.

'Ahem.' 'Derrrp.' *cack*

Acolytes feign wonderment for all. 'I see fire, spat!'

But his cult following will gobble it up.

Old man yellow at cloud.