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Bernie Sanders' 8 and a Half Hour Speech in Senate

SirPwn4lot

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I realize this is a little late, but as far as a search on the topic can reveal, there's been no actual thread on it. Not sure if I should post it here, but C-SPAN seems to fit the description.

Yesterday, Bernie Sanders, the Senator from Vermont, the only open democratic socialist in the Congress gave an eight and a half hour speech detesting Obama's deal with the Republican leadership to extend the Bush tax cuts for 2 years in exchange for 13 months of unemployment benefits.

He brings up a variety of issues, including many those who agree with him brought up here. I've enjoyed it very much so far, and I'm only 2.5 hours in. I suggest you all give it a watch, no matter your political beliefs.

A link to the full 8.5hr speech can be found here
 
What I'm wondering is why he had to filibuster at all. For the past four years, Harry Reid seems to have been unable to muster the political will to make the Republicans ACTUALLY filibuster bills. All they had to do was announce that they were GOING to filibuster, and that was the end of it. But as soon as tax cuts for the rich are at stake, poor Bernie actually has to talk for 8 hours.
 
Kandahar said:
What I'm wondering is why he had to filibuster at all. For the past four years, Harry Reid seems to have been unable to muster the political will to make the Republicans ACTUALLY filibuster bills. All they had to do was announce that they were GOING to filibuster, and that was the end of it. But as soon as tax cuts for the rich are at stake, poor Bernie actually has to talk for 8 hours.
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I think it was his choice to do so.
 
I think most people would have said "Hey shut the **** up already" instead of listening to a piece of crap commie whine for 8 and half hours, Wah its not fair that rich get tax cuts, wah I want my government hand out, wah I more of those rich people's money going to the poor, "wah so what those poor people didn't work for it I want them to get more". Can you imagine having to listen to that nonsense for eight and half hours.
 
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I am proud to have a fine American like Bernie Sanders in the United States Senate. Watching and listening to him stand up for the middle class and stand up to the sycophants and toadies of the upper class was courageous and a source of inspiration to keep up the fight against wealth and privilege from taking over even more of American society. There are times when I look at the Rand Paul types, the Sarah Palin types and the Mitch McConnells of this land and I feel it is all going down hill fast and they are greasing the tracks.

A big THANK YOU to Senator Sanders, one truly great American.
 
Heavy Duty said:
I would rather **** football size turds than listen to some communist asshole whine and cry why he isnt getting his way. BOO FRICKING HOO.
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I caught parts of it a couple times. Both times he was talking about the top 400 richest people in the US.
He should have been talking about the lower bracket of millionaires and small manufacturers who will be hit with a tax increase.
You know, the ones who hire and fire people depending on the economy and taxes.
With our unemployment rate, taxes shouldn't be raised on anyone. We need all the jobs we can get.
 
haymarket said:
I am proud to have a fine American like Bernie Sanders in the United States Senate. Watching and listening to him stand up for the middle class and stand up to the sycophants and toadies of the upper class was courageous and a source of inspiration to keep up the fight against wealth and privilege from taking over even more of American society. There are times when I look at the Rand Paul types, the Sarah Palin types and the Mitch McConnells of this land and I feel it is all going down hill fast and they are greasing the tracks.

A big THANK YOU to Senator Sanders, one truly great American.
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Ain't socialism great? I'm so proud we have them legislating for us. I was getting pretty damn sick of living in a free country.
 
Barbbtx said:
Ain't socialism great? I'm so proud we have them legislating for us. I was getting pretty damn sick of living in a free country.
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You do know that the American military is the perfect example of socialism within a rabidly anti-socialist society right?
 
Hatuey said:
You do know that the American military is the perfect example of socialism within a rabidly anti-socialist society right?
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you are gonna mess with their heads if you keep this up.
 
Hatuey said:
You do know that the American military is the perfect example of socialism within a rabidly anti-socialist society right?
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Wonder is she knows that the "them" consists of just him. He is considered an Independent and is nothing like the other independent in the Senate.
 
Redress said:
Wonder is she knows that the "them" consists of just him. He is considered an Independent and is nothing like the other independent in the Senate.
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The them don't even legislate over her for the most part. Sanders is from my state and has ensure don't end up being the hell hole that is most of Texas is with the exceptions of places where cool people like dana and winston live.
 
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Bernie Sanders is the man. There was a part where he talked about wages in the automobile industry depreciating 50% and that the gold standard in manufacturing jobs is no an appalling $14 without unionization. Pathetic. America has no good jobs anymore, multi-nationals take all the jobs to various parts of the world where its more 'competitive'. I want livable wage jobs here in America, now. Viva la Bernie!
 
SirPwn4lot said:
I realize this is a little late, but as far as a search on the topic can reveal, there's been no actual thread on it. Not sure if I should post it here, but C-SPAN seems to fit the description.

Yesterday, Bernie Sanders, the Senator from Vermont, the only open democratic socialist in the Congress gave an eight and a half hour speech detesting Obama's deal with the Republican leadership to extend the Bush tax cuts for 2 years in exchange for 13 months of unemployment benefits.

He brings up a variety of issues, including many those who agree with him brought up here. I've enjoyed it very much so far, and I'm only 2.5 hours in. I suggest you all give it a watch, no matter your political beliefs.

A link to the full 8.5hr speech can be found here
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I think it is somewhere around the 4-5 hr mark that he talks on how much more the bailed out banks and investment firms have made since their bailouts.

I left it on one tv so saw bits and pieces of it. Being a CSPAN junkie I usually do though.
Thanks for the link.
 
Z3n said:
Bernie Sanders is the man. There was a part where he talked about wages in the automobile industry depreciating 50% and that the gold standard in manufacturing jobs is no an appalling $14 without unionization. Pathetic. America has no good jobs anymore, multi-nationals take all the jobs to various parts of the world where its more 'competitive'. I want livable wage jobs here in America, now. Viva la Bernie!
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What the idiots on the left fail to realize is that the majority of the jobs that have gone oversea is because of Unions. Companies dont want to have to listen to a bunch of crybabies that think they are entitled to a job. So they move overseas where the labor is cheap and the people willing to do the job and not bitch and whine everytime they dont feel like working.

Its a sad state of America when Union workers are worked under the table by some third world country.
 
Heavy Duty said:
BS......you people make me laugh at your idiotic statements.
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Your inability to create a post without swearing and the fact that you almost never sound coherent makes us all laugh. You are a living conservative stereotype. A baby Navy Pride.
 
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Hatuey said:
You do know that the American military is the perfect example of socialism within a rabidly anti-socialist society right?
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I'm glad you brought that up. I'm damn sick of the military fighting for my freedoms that I'm sick of anyway.
 
Heavy Duty said:
What the idiots on the left fail to realize is that the majority of the jobs that have gone oversea is because of Unions. Companies dont want to have to listen to a bunch of crybabies that think they are entitled to a job. So they move overseas where the labor is cheap and the people willing to do the job and not bitch and whine everytime they dont feel like working.

Its a sad state of America when Union workers are worked under the table by some third world country.
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Oh so true, How dare an AMERICAN want to be more than a third world worker.

How dare an AMERICAN fight for the right to make a living wage so they can send their kid to college or take them to Disney or even out to a decent resturant.

They should strive to become like the third world worker. They should be happy that companies in those countries provide a room in the back or basement of the building for kids to sleep in after 12-16 or more hours of working, why would they need to go to school, they have a job already.

AMERICANS should strive to not work for a wage that would allow them to save to act on and get patents fot innovations they come up with, just tell the big boss your idea, he/she has the money and can get the patents, create the jobs and collect the money the innovation would make.

Yes AMERICANS should just get over the AMERICAN dreams they think this country was founded on, America would be so much better off as a third world nation.
/scarcasm.
 
Barbbtx said:
I'm glad you brought that up. I'm damn sick of the military fighting for my freedoms that I'm sick of anyway.
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You do know that the overwhelming majority of the military isn't actually 'fighting' right? It's behind a desk filling out papers? I think you mean 'filling out papers for my freedoms'. However I'm glad you chose to back down from this fight. You're nothing more than a troll anyways. I don't expect you to have any serious commentary on any issues.
 
Barbbtx said:
I'm glad you brought that up. I'm damn sick of the military fighting for my freedoms that I'm sick of anyway.
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Why don't you move to freeging Cuba along with that progressive Bernie Sanders and see how you BOTH like it.

Bernie Sanders should go under a drug test.
 
I thought the speech as a political act was almost entirely meaningless because it goes nowhere. I respect and admire Bernie Sanders but standing up and speaking for eight plus hours doesn't do anything. Bernie needs to show up with a shorter speech and sixty votes. Lately the speech making is taking too long and he's got at best 53 votes — Bernie can't even muster the whole of the Democratic Senate caucus to his cause. This leads nowhere.
 
SirPwn4lot said:
I realize this is a little late, but as far as a search on the topic can reveal, there's been no actual thread on it. Not sure if I should post it here, but C-SPAN seems to fit the description.

Yesterday, Bernie Sanders, the Senator from Vermont, the only open democratic socialist in the Congress gave an eight and a half hour speech detesting Obama's deal with the Republican leadership to extend the Bush tax cuts for 2 years in exchange for 13 months of unemployment benefits.

He brings up a variety of issues, including many those who agree with him brought up here. I've enjoyed it very much so far, and I'm only 2.5 hours in. I suggest you all give it a watch, no matter your political beliefs.

A link to the full 8.5hr speech can be found here
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If you watch the full 8.5 hours speech, that's 8 1/2 hours that you'll never get back. I only watched what they show in the news, thank God!
 
Hatuey said:
You do know that the overwhelming majority of the military isn't actually 'fighting' right? It's behind a desk filling out papers? I think you mean 'filling out papers for my freedoms'. However I'm glad you chose to back down from this fight. You're nothing more than a troll anyways. I don't expect you to have any serious commentary on any issues.
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If they aren't out there risking their lives they should get out from behind the desks. They can join those in the unemployment lines.American Thinker: The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery
I'm sick of all the fighting that is keeping full blown socialism at bay. Let's just check our inalianable rights at the door and be done with it.
 
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