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GOP nightmare is here: Sanders Is Budget Chair

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
The media source is obviously from the left. As far as I'm concerned, I expect the next two years, at least, to be a lot more entertaining than the past 4.

GOP nightmare about to come true: Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders

The long-held Republican nightmare that a champion of working-class people and the common good — someone who has dedicated his political career to curbing poverty and injustice while denouncing corporate greed, endless war and the cruelty of a for-profit health system that leaves millions upon millions uninsured or without affordable access to care — would assume the powerful position of chairing the Senate Budget Committee is about to become a reality.


"Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, and cutting defense spending," Nikki Haley tweeted Saturday.
 

Yerda

Veteran Member
"Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, and cutting defense spending," Nikki Haley tweeted Saturday.
It's nice of Nikki to highlight the positives.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Nightmare for America maybe.
But then-
The guy has been feckless since
forever, that won't change.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Why are conservatives so opposed to Bernie for being a democratic socialist? Those same conservatives seem to love quoting George Orwell, another democratic socialist.

"socialism" has been a swear word for the right for a long long time. Everything that the left proposes is automatically labeled socialism.
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
The media source is obviously from the left. As far as I'm concerned, I expect the next two years, at least, to be a lot more entertaining than the past 4.

GOP nightmare about to come true: Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders

The long-held Republican nightmare that a champion of working-class people and the common good — someone who has dedicated his political career to curbing poverty and injustice while denouncing corporate greed, endless war and the cruelty of a for-profit health system that leaves millions upon millions uninsured or without affordable access to care — would assume the powerful position of chairing the Senate Budget Committee is about to become a reality.


"Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, and cutting defense spending," Nikki Haley tweeted Saturday.
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Everything that the left proposes is automatically labeled socialism.
The left & right use pretty much the same definition,
since both of them call the Scandinavians "socialist".
For one side, a curse word...for the other, praise.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The media source is obviously from the left. As far as I'm concerned, I expect the next two years, at least, to be a lot more entertaining than the past 4.

GOP nightmare about to come true: Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders

The long-held Republican nightmare that a champion of working-class people and the common good — someone who has dedicated his political career to curbing poverty and injustice while denouncing corporate greed, endless war and the cruelty of a for-profit health system that leaves millions upon millions uninsured or without affordable access to care — would assume the powerful position of chairing the Senate Budget Committee is about to become a reality.


"Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, and cutting defense spending," Nikki Haley tweeted Saturday.

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icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
Nightmare for America maybe.
But then-
The guy has been feckless since
forever, that won't change.

three questions:

1 - why is this a nightmare?
2 - who is the feckless one?
3 - how has that person demonstrated fecklessness?
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
The media source is obviously from the left. As far as I'm concerned, I expect the next two years, at least, to be a lot more entertaining than the past 4.
Like him or not you can't help feeling happy for him. He's been pushing for all of this time, and now he's in a position to try out his ideas.

How can it be more entertaining that the last for years? Oh you mean for Americans. Ok I hear you.
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Nightmare for America maybe.
But then-
The guy has been feckless since
forever, that won't change.

In today's political climate, Eisenhower
would be a 'nightmare for America'. Imagine
where his notion governments must lend open
support to labor unions would get him today. Or,
for that matter, just about anything he stood for.

The John Birch people called him a 'communist'
and declared he was a Soviet mole tasked with
taking over the Government.

Back then, the Republicans had Buckley. He
deplaformed the Birchers on the grounds they
were too radical to be true conservatives. That's
what we call it today, 'deplatforming'. Post-Buckley,
they were reduced to mailing out mimeographed
copies of their pamphlets to true believers who
subscribed to them. I think they had a few books,
too, but their books weren't available in most
bookstores.

My high school math teacher was a Bircher. The only
one I ever personally knew. At least once a week, he
would take the first 10 - 15 minutes of class to teach
us something useful. Like how to throw a grenade,
using a chalk eraser to demonstrate the correct
technique.

I know exactly where to go in case America is
ever over-run by Soviet tanks, thanks to him.

I think maybe a lot of kids on the right these days
are learning important life skills.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
The left & right use pretty much the same definition,
since both of them call the Scandinavians "socialist".
For one side, a curse word...for the other, praise.
So you think that a good infrastructure, a functioning capitalism, a political system run by the people not the oligarchs and a happy community are somehow undesirable by the right? Is it because it feels too much like civilization and too little like the wild west?
 

Yerda

Veteran Member
Why are conservatives so opposed to Bernie for being a democratic socialist? Those same conservatives seem to love quoting George Orwell, another democratic socialist.
For some of them the idea of anyone anywhere ever doing anything to help other people under any circustance whatsoever really boils their urine.
 

WalterTrull

Godfella
Had to look up "feckless" Nice word. Sort of learned what it meant from context, but never sure. Should look up more words. I remember looking up enervate. Boy, was I wrong.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
So you think that a good infrastructure, a functioning capitalism, a political system run by the people not the oligarchs and a happy community are somehow undesirable by the right? Is it because it feels too much like civilization and too little like the wild west?
I don't believe in the Oligarch Conspiracy.
I like having infrastructure...after all, I pay much in taxes & fees to have it.
I find capitalism chugging along, ie, functioning.
Civilization is a semi-successful work in progress.
I suspect that many non-lefties would agree.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I don't believe in the Oligarch Conspiracy.
I like having infrastructure...after all, I pay much in taxes & fees to have it.
I find capitalism chugging along, ie, functioning.
Civilization is a semi-successful work in progress.
I suspect that many non-lefties would agree.
You are better at not taking the bait than I am
 
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