Posted on 10/09/2013 7:09:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (Independent) slammed the Koch brothers on MSNBC this morning, alleging that the billionaire businessmen behind the Tea Party were partly responsible for bringing about the government shutdown.
Sanders is the Senate’s sole Independent senator, and he typically caucuses with Democrats. But the Vermont lawmaker lashed out at what he says is the unchecked and damaging influence of Citizens United on American governance, the House of Representatives in particular, during an MSNBC appearance this morning.
Sen. Sanders addressed the current government shutdown, saying he believes the Kochs are behind the gridlock that ground the House to a halt and subsequently, the rest of the federal government.
He began by establishing what stake he believes the Koch brothers have in disrupting democracy:
“The real issue here, if you look at the Koch Brothers agenda is, look at with many of the extreme right wing people believe, Obamacare is just the tip of the iceberg. These people want to abolish the concept of the minimum wage, they want to privatize the Veterans’ Administration, they want to privatize Social Security end Medicare as we know it, massive cuts in Medicaid, wipe out the EPA, you don’t have an Environmental Protection Agency anymore, Department of Energy gone, Department of Education gone, that is the agenda… and many people don’t understand that the Koch Brothers have poured hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into the tea party and two other kinds of ancillary organizations to push this agenda.”
Sen. Sanders then likens the current money in politics climate to the corrupt days of robber barons, opining that the eradication of the middle class is the intent of — not a side effect of — Citizens United and other corporate interests in politics:
“So, what you’re finding now is a continuation of the class warfare that has been going on in this country for many, many years. The rich are getting richer, the number of Americans in poverty is at an all-time high, the middle class is disappearing, and these guys are using Citizens United and banging away and doing everything that they can to get more tax breaks for the people on top and more devastating cuts for working families.”
I disliked Bernie Sanders already for being a socialist. Does this mean he’s an anti-Semite too?
And... Bernie is not deranged?
Hahaha
Do these ancient communists ever tire of their incessant propaganda?
It’s like opening a copy of Pravda in the old days. One could always count on the standard anti-American cartoon in every daily issue.
Now the Democrat Party is the American Pravda. Whenever they open their mouths one can always count on the anti-American or anti-Republican blather flowing from their lips.
You know they are desperate and losing when they start to blame obscure donors and random people that nobody really knows.
ROTFLMAO
What a moron.
“Sanders is the Senate’s sole Independent senator”
BullCrappola!!!!!
Bernie Sanders is the Senate’s self proclaimed SOCIALIST, not Independent.
I am so very tired of Socialist pigs...shove it Bernie!
Needs to be hospitalized under 0-DontCare.
Has Bernie admitted that $0r0$ has his hand within the Sanders hand puppet?
Citizens United
Ted Cruz
The evil trifecta!
First Obama attacks the Kochs then the IRS targets the Kochs and now a Senator attacks the Kochs...this is scary to have the weight of govt target citizens because they are of a different political ideology.
It was the giant Sta-Puff marshmallow man working with Big Bird that did it Bernie, honest.
Bernie scored some powerful weed
We don't call it the Loony Left for nothing!!
Jesus, are all liberals shithouse rat crazy, or just 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of them?
The Koch Brothers employ more than 100,000 American workers, many union members.
Meanwhile, this eugenicist spouts Old Left babble in the 21st Century.
So do the socialist voters of Vermont who keep re-electing him.
Bernie’s Boogie Men
No, NO!
Senator Sanders, have you forgotten it is the fault of Da Juice?
Citizens United did not do it, the Juice did.
Ask any Arab.
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