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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: All

D’oh, it’s all Bush’s fault! That 50 million people live in poverty in the U.S.!!


61 posted on 12/10/2010 11:33:09 AM 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: rumrunner

Hehe Make my day.


62 posted on 12/10/2010 11:33:17 AM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: AU72

LOL I was thinking the same thing.


63 posted on 12/10/2010 11:34:16 AM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: WayneS
Are they a sub-set of "Mass-holes"?

Are they ever. Western Mass. is home to the largest community of wymyn in work shirts and sensible shoes in the world, at least as far as I've ever seen. Go to Northampton, MA some time. It's amusing, although the reality of it will destroy whatever private fantasies you might ever have entertained about the Sisters of Sappho...

64 posted on 12/10/2010 11:34:44 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Gen. Burkhalter
Give Sanders credit for one thing: He openly and publicly and honestly calls himself a socialist. Wish the rest of his pathetic damn party would follow his example.

They just operate under a different name...Democrat Progressive Caucus...eighty of them. On the GOP side; they are called RINO's...

65 posted on 12/10/2010 11:35:06 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Frantzie
Maybe a GOP member will have the same guts if Hairy Reid tried to push The Dream Act next week.

And would the dems dare to use the nuclear option if one does?

66 posted on 12/10/2010 11:36:35 AM PST by SeeSac
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To: rumrunner
IMHO, the only reason the Dem's are "objecting" publicly is to RAISE TAXES IN 2011 by letting the cuts expire, and BLAMING the Republicans for it.

THERE IS NOT TAX CUT....IT'S THE CONTINUATION OF EXISTING RATES, and the REPUBLICANS MUST GET THAT MESSAGE OUT!

67 posted on 12/10/2010 11:36:35 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: rumrunner

Bernie Sanders is a Vermont cow full of bull.


68 posted on 12/10/2010 11:36:47 AM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: 30Moves

Putting.


69 posted on 12/10/2010 11:37:00 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: bunkerhill7

I cheer him in that he can prevent the Lame Ducks from crapping out any more bad laws.


70 posted on 12/10/2010 11:40:46 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: who knows what evil?

I would gladly pay Canada to take that leftist assylum Vermont off our hands—and their buffoon Senator with them. Can you imagine electing a guy like that to represent you in the Senate? He looks like a crazy homeless person in a bad suit. The guy doesn’t even know how to comb his hair for gosh sakes.


71 posted on 12/10/2010 11:41:09 AM PST by MissesBush
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To: rumrunner

I hope this socialist piece of crap drops dead at his podium.


72 posted on 12/10/2010 11:41:48 AM PST by Stormtrooper79
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To: who knows what evil?

You haven’t seen anything until you have seen what the California hippies did to Oregon.

Personally I would like to see them leave and destroy some place else. Preferably on some isolated island in Antarctica where they are welcome to control their complete environment and not need to worry about global warming.


73 posted on 12/10/2010 11:42:12 AM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: andy58-in-nh

>>Go to Northampton

Man, that’s CRUEL!

Just stick to the Mardi Gras in Springfield!


74 posted on 12/10/2010 11:42:50 AM PST by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes! Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -America is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: rumrunner
senatorsanders Sen. Bernie Sanders' #filibuster has included support from @SenSherrodBrown & Sen. Mary Landrieu today.
Ic_retweet_tweet DylanRatigan What they don't want you understand about taxes in USA: http://bit.ly/g5qAlg @senatorsanders #taxes
senatorsanders It's pretty clear in this economy who's winning and losing. The working people, middle-class people, low-income people are losing

75 posted on 12/10/2010 11:43:24 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Yer 100% right.


76 posted on 12/10/2010 11:44:04 AM PST by Roccus (OUR GOVERNMENT IS COMPRISED OF BUFFOONS, TRAITORS, CRIMINALS AND IDIOTS!!!!!!!)
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To: OCCASparky
True enough, but thank God we can still outvote them. The college towns are predictably liberal, as they are pretty much everywhere these days. Still preaching "revolution" and smoking wacky weed on daddy's dime, just like in the '60s. Only today, they read blogs instead of Mao's Little Red Book.

Bernie Sanders is a real throwback to those days, and I've got to say that although I agree with the guy about absolutely nothing, I respect the fact that he has the courage of his convictions and doesn't pretend to be anything but what he is: a socialist.

77 posted on 12/10/2010 11:44:08 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: mowowie

Years ago, maybe 70s or 80s, I’d go up there with my Dad and we’d get eggs from a place on the honor system—take eggs, leave money. Later a camera was put in though, IIRC. Also
an old rocker “for sale” right out there on sidewalk in front of house where anyone could take it. Maybe people gone back to the old, simpler days, who knows.

A nice dip in Lake St. Catherine...

The hills around Burlington, and looking across to the
Adirondacks from Rt 7

Eating at the Dog Team Tavern in Middlebury (before the
owner committed suicide and burned it down with him)

The quiet towns all over

Waterfalls, hills, farms, lakes, churches on the town
green...stop me before I start singing “Moonlight in Vermont”. (Maybe a parody though: “moonBATS in Vermont!”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbrPen0tqxM


78 posted on 12/10/2010 11:44:27 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: swarthyguy

I see you’ve been there. ;-)


79 posted on 12/10/2010 11:45:48 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: raccoonradio

This Bernie reminds me a lot of Julius Sumner Miller!
:-)

Amazing that liberals don’t connect the dots—punishing the hardest working capitalistic people (is he really saying that rich people should have limits on what they can and cannot do or buy?!) in this country ALSO PUNISHES THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE MIDDLE CLASS, THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY.

Do they honestly believe that rich people sit in big rooms counting their money and not investing it in anything at all??

Will Bernie talk about how much Obama has added to the deficit in two short years?!


80 posted on 12/10/2010 11:49:26 AM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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