Comments on: Bernie Sanders, Dealmaker

By: nypoet22

nypoet22 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:26:24 +0000

@jfc this. JL

By: John From Censornati

John From Censornati — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:36:35 +0000

Like clockwork. Projecting, narcissistic, and lying like his delusional, destructive, deranged orange hero.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:24:54 +0000

[8],

Heh.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:23:42 +0000

Good God ...

By: nypoet22

nypoet22 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:41:28 +0000

@jfc,

not so sure i agree with you about W. he was in way over his head and let the wrong people take charge at first. in his second term he got rid of rumsfeld, fenced cheney in a bit, generally got a bit more moderate, and was very gracious when obama took over. no way does his death toll and economic failure match donald's covid count. dubya is bottom third, donald is bottom 3.

By: John From Censornati

John From Censornati — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:16:50 +0000

After four long years of keeping his idiotic mouth shut about the orange menace, King George W went on German TV to criticize Biden's decision to pull the US out of his forever war in Afghanistan. I hate him so much. He had the gall to talk about how the women there will suffer as if they haven't suffered elsewhere thanks to his Big Lie (not to mention Saudi Arabia). The Obamas shame themselves by befriending him rather than shunning him. I'm not sure that Florida Man was the worst ever. He's mentally ill. W's best excuse is that he's an arrogant, know nothing frat boy who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He killed more people and presided over more economic destruction.

By: nypoet22

nypoet22 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:15:29 +0000

is there a unicorn in here? i thought i smelled a rainbow.

By: John From Censornati

John From Censornati — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 03:58:32 +0000

I figured you would.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:21:49 +0000

Oh, I get it ... I catch on eventually ... :)

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:19:52 +0000

[3],

???

By: John From Censornati

John From Censornati — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:16:09 +0000

Bernie is routinely portrayed as being some sort of bomb-throwing extremist

Actually, he's routinely portrayed as a communist and a not-Democrat.

. . . alternatively, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Deathtroll from Planet Dore will call him a Big Money Deathocrat because he takes $201 campaign donations and doesn't give grifters enough free stuff.

By: John From Censornati

John From Censornati — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:05:32 +0000

The biggest of these -- which Bernie had been pushing very hard for -- is the addition of vision, dental, and hearing coverage for those on Medicaid. This will be an enormous change in seniors' lives, since they'll now be covered to get glasses, dental visits, and hearing aids . . . I think maybe the editor was asleep at the wheel.

By: John From Censornati

John From Censornati — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:59:57 +0000

LizM [2],

Trolling the Deathtroll tonight, eh?

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:36:57 +0000

You know, I've always thought of Senator Biden as the foreign policy guy and the guy I always went to for his thoughts on any given foreign policy issues, the old comments from former defense secretary notwithstanding. Ahem.

So, I'm always surprised, to this day, when he turns out to be the guy to go to on domestic economic issues, too!

But, my vote for the MIDOTW award goes to none other than Senator Sanders! :)

By: Chris Weigant

Chris Weigant — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 23:58:44 +0000

Addendum:

As time goes by, more and more becomes public. From a review of the bill:

"The highlight is an extension of the expanded child tax credit that was enacted on a one-year basis in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan earlier this year. Delivered at a maximum rate of $3,600 per year for kids under 6 and $3,000 for kids between 6 and 17, the credit has the potential, if permanent, to cut the child poverty rate, 14.4 percent in 2019, by half. The package also contains other major elements of President Biden’s American Families Plan — tuition-free community college, family and medical leave, universal pre-K, increased tax credits for Obamacare and investments to fight climate change. Mr. Sanders won a new dental, vision and hearing benefit under Medicare, a potential life-changer for millions of seniors who now pay for these items out of pocket — or don’t get them at all."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/14/democrats-make-budget-deal-with-themselves/

So I guess the tuition-free community college will make it in the bill after all. This is good news...

-CW