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Bernie Sanders vows to use speaking filibuster to prevent tax vote
Twitter ^ | 12/10/2010 | Bernie Sanders

Posted on 12/10/2010 10:56:25 AM PST by rumrunner

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VM) is using a true speaking filibuster to prevent vote that stops a tax raise.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; sanders; sandersforpres; taxes; vermont
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To: andy58-in-nh

My sentiments exactly!

BTTT :)


101 posted on 12/10/2010 12:25:53 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: rumrunner

As much as I would cheer him on—this is all show. They will just buy him off the way they always do. Probably some solar-powered milkers for Ben & Jerry’s. Or maybe some tax credits for windmills in the Green Mountains.

THERE IS A NUMBER AT WHICH BERNIE’S COMMIE BRAIN WILL TURN TO GOO. Maybe Ben & Jerry will name a new flavor after him: Bernie’s Gooey Gooey Brain Freeze


102 posted on 12/10/2010 12:30:06 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: rumrunner

What are the rules when he has to take a leak?


103 posted on 12/10/2010 12:38:03 PM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: rumrunner

Hopefully the million union moron march will commence this weekend with the throngs shouting their battle cry of the 2012 election “what do we WANT - HIGHER TAXES! when do we WANT it - NOW!!!”

Its as if the avoidance of driving taxes insanely HIGHER is some sort Tax CUT and with that an immoral act of terrorism or something?

None of the plans that Sanders, Pelosi, etc will create a single job...ever!

You want a job? You need to remove the Liberal Democrat Parasites.


104 posted on 12/10/2010 12:43:59 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: All

This guy has it out for Walmart and rich folks, doesn’t he? What’s up with all this ‘limit how much money the wealthy can earn’?!?

2 questions.
1) If the dems raise the taxes on the EVIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL rich millionaires and billionaires who caused all those poor children to be on food stamps, what are the odds of those very same people moving out of the US to someplace with less taxes (Cayman Islands?) so their kids aren’t punished by their deaths with 55+% double death taxes?
And of taking any jobs with them they might have created IN the USA with their evil hordes of dollar bills???

2) Have ANY of the LIBERAL EVIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL rich millionaires and billionaires who caused all those poor children to be on food stamps who serve in Congress actually stood up and said anything along the lines of, “I’m sorry!!!!! It’s all my fault for being selfish and rich! I can’t stand hearing about all those poor kids on food stamps that were the results of my greediness!!!! Here, here’s my checkbook, here’s 55+% of all that I own and have investments in, here, take those kids off food stamps, I want to sleep the sleep of the innocent, I can’t stand it anymore!! Besides, Biden says it’s patriotic to pay taxes, and I’m the most patriotic person in Congress!!!!”

< crickets chirping >

Just wonderin’.


105 posted on 12/10/2010 12:47:04 PM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: mowowie
“I felt like i was on a different planet.”

Boy, isn't that the truth. Spent 6 months in Lebanon, NH. The better half was working at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital. The first three months there we lived in Quechee, VT. Wow! Never seen so many tree huggers. Every vehicle had at least 10 left wing, socialist bumper stickers. We shopped at one of the local coops. Now that was a real trip. We may be going back there soon. Will take lots of pictures of the loons and post.

106 posted on 12/10/2010 12:50:44 PM PST by animal172 (Where are you America?)
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To: OCCASparky
There's no question that Bernie can do no wrong in his district. My point is that he really believes the crap he says.

After all, they don't call him "Bernie the Red" for nothing. He founded the Progressive Caucus and is a charter member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Our soon-to-be-ex-congressperson Shea-Porter (I love the sound of that) is a clearly a left-wing loon too, but she developed a habit of dissembling on issues, pretending to be a "centrist" while continuing to vote with Nancy Pelosi 95% of the time.

107 posted on 12/10/2010 12:50:52 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: MplsSteve

Have to give him credit for that at least, Sanders is a Socialist however he is more concerned with at least trying than missing his tee time at the Senatorial Golf Club.


108 posted on 12/10/2010 1:00:36 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: All

Go Bernie! Run out the clock and stop the lame ducks from accomplishing anything!


109 posted on 12/10/2010 1:08:34 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be ustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: animal172

I was sitting at some hippie bar in VT called the Purple something or other and was sitting and talking to a Lufthansa pilot.
He was telling me how he’s been to almost every major city in the word, I asked him what the hell he was doing sitting in this tiny bar in the middle of nowhere when he has the whole wold to visit.
He told me that out of the hundreds of places he’s ever been to he loved vacationing in peaceful Vermont, His favorite place in the world.

He was single and alone, I dunno, maybe he was gay or something.


110 posted on 12/10/2010 1:09:44 PM PST by mowowie
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To: padre35

Has anyone set the Over/Under for how long he goes?

I would bet probably 9.pm eastern. That way he’ll make the evening news on the West Coast.


111 posted on 12/10/2010 1:10:30 PM PST by Rational Thought
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To: rumrunner

As a drunken Martha Stewart would say in her screechy, high-pitched drunk’s voice, “Goooood for himmmm. Goooood for himmmm.”


112 posted on 12/10/2010 1:21:22 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff!)
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To: rumrunner

As Dirty Harry once remarked...”Go ahead and make my day”!


113 posted on 12/10/2010 1:36:10 PM PST by RWAubrey ("Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their b)
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To: RWAubrey

“Go ahead and make my day”!

“Go ahead, make my day”!


114 posted on 12/10/2010 1:38:57 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: padre35

“We are actually forcing tax breaks on people who don’t need them and don’t want them!”—Bernie Sanders


115 posted on 12/10/2010 1:40:12 PM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: All

Sanders is scum, but a stalled Congress is a good Congress.


116 posted on 12/10/2010 1:41:31 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: LeonardFMason
Best post of the year!!!!!!!

And it got pulled (I figured it would.) The ** and $^#! apparently make f**k and $hit OK. But using actual words is verbotten.

Makes ALL kinds of sense /s

117 posted on 12/10/2010 1:43:43 PM PST by don-o (Wait. What?)
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To: pillut48
This is what liberals think that rich people do with their money: Scrooge McDuck Pictures, Images and Photos
118 posted on 12/10/2010 1:46:26 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: don-o
And it got pulled (I figured it would.) The ** and $^#! apparently make f**k and $hit OK. But using actual words is verbotten. Makes ALL kinds of sense /s

I don't know what FR uses, but lot's use spellers to check for certain words. Using *, etc, allows the words to not be filter before posting.

119 posted on 12/10/2010 1:46:31 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: pillut48

Sure, dude is a Socialist through and through even down to the death tax, however he is also a Comitted Socialist, such committment is rare in DC.

Recall the sham of Reid having rollaway beds brought up to Capital Hill...that were never used?


120 posted on 12/10/2010 1:51:10 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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