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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie Gets It Done: Sanders' Record of Pushing Through Major Reforms Will Surprise You
I'm a progressive, but I'm a progressive who likes to get things done, Hillary Clinton said at the first Democratic debate, in response to a question from moderator Anderson Cooper about whether she defines herself as a moderate or a progressive.
The implication was that progressive Bernie Sanders is too far to the left to accomplish anythingall of his ideas are pie-in-the-sky. You have to be able to find the bipartisan, warm, purple space as Clinton said earlier this year, to get anything done. Slate's Jamelle Bouie was super-impressed by this rationale, saying Clinton has skilled use of bureaucratic power.
The problem with this narrative is that it is completely false. Not only has Sanders gotten a lot more things done than Clinton did in her own short legislative career, he's actually one of the most effective members of Congress, passing bills, both big and small, that have reshaped American policy on key issues like poverty, the environment and health care.
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Congress is not known to be a progressive institution lately, to say the least. Over the past few decades, the House of Representatives was only controlled by the Democrats from 2007 to 2010, and a flood of corporate money has quieted the once-powerful progressive movement that passed legislation moving the country forward between the New Deal era and the Great Society. Yet, as difficult as it may be to believe, a socialist from Vermont is one of its most accomplished members.
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Bernie Gets It Done: Sanders' Record of Pushing Through Major Reforms Will Surprise You (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
Oct 2015
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K & R. Sanders has been consistent on positions and effective with legislation among other
appalachiablue
Oct 2015
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)1. I'm not surprsed at all
and a woman who gets cheated on and doesn't even divorce the lout can't get anything done!
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)2. K & R. Sanders has been consistent on positions and effective with legislation among other
strengths in his long public career.
aspirant
(3,533 posts)3. These HRC revisions need to be added to his stump speech
where we control the message
When you clarify reality, you're not presenting a negative response but rather the truth
TBF
(32,084 posts)4. Hillary definitely gets things "done" - but as we see
from this meme, Bernie has got his work cut out for him in fixing her mistakes.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)5. This thread deserves more attention