SALON: Bernie Sanders' epic tax cut filibuster rant

[L. Coyote]

The senator brings government to a glorious halt with an extraordinary diatribe against U.S. economic policy
By Andrew Leonard
http://www.salon.com/news/bernard_sanders/?story=/tech/htww/2010/12/10/bernie_sanders_epic_filibuster_rant


On CSPAN, six hours after first taking the podium to filibuster against the tax cut deal at around 10:25 a.m. Friday morning, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is still talking. The CSPAN subtitle is "U.S. Senate: Tax Cuts & Unemployment Benefits," but for the last few minutes he has been blasting trade polices that disadvantage American workers.

But that's fine. His epic rant -- perhaps one of the most extraordinary critiques of how the American economy has been managed over the last several decades delivered in living memory -- is an endless sequence of connecting the dots from one outrage to another. Even as I wrote this paragraph, he segued effortlessly from trade policy to Wall Street.

"But it is not just a disastrous trade policy that has brought us where we are today. The immediate cause of this crisis, and it gets me just sick talking about it ... is what the crooks on Wall Street have done to the American people."

Sanders then delivers a capsule history of deregulation, blasts Alan Greenspan, noted that the late '90s he had predicted everything that ultimately happened, but failed to rally legislative support to stop the runaway train -- "and the rest is unfortunately history."

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[myrna minx]

1. Thank you Senator Sanders.

:patriot:

[dennis4868]

3. Yep...

Thanks Bernie when you have no tax cut plan that can overcome a repub senate fillubuster and at the same time prevent a huge tax hike on the lowest tax bracket, prevent a middle class hike, and provide UI for 13 months....his rant today does nothing to help this....

[myrna minx]

4. You're right.

We should never stand for anything. Most importantly, we should never try. Important life lessons to be sure.

[dennis4868]

7. let's try?

Try for what exactly? The repubs are fillubustering without any question any tax bill that increases taxes on the rich...,and by January 1 the repubs are on charge and everyones taxes go up, including the lowest tax bracket by 50%

[sudopod]

5. Give up Jesus

Get 30 pieces of silver.

[flamingdem]

2. Too bad this is getting NO PLAY on CNN or even MSNBC nt

[HillbillyBob]

6. Olberman is playing part of it now, and

I liked Tamaron Halls 'cast this after noon around 2 or 3 that 'Sanders is venting on the floor and really bitchin about...."
I could only catch part of it. it was the venting and bitchin that caught my attention.