General Discussion

He made a bad vote there, and considering his record there, I don't know why he wants to be throwing stones now.

ATRA appears to be impossible to undo. That nuclear bomb cannot be undetonated. But people should still be held accountable - and that means people I would normally respect, like Tammy Baldwin, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, almost any Democratic politician you can name (besides myself, since by politician I mean they have won their election, not just run in a couple).

But all of those supposed Democratic leaders, fighters for the people they would call themselves (and so does Obama), they sat on their hands. They seemingly said nothing, and did nothing to prevent the travesty that is ATRA. Most of the Bush tax cuts were made permanent and the Democratic Party could not even produce a whimper of objection. Where was Sanders press conference then? AWOL, that's where. And he voted FOR that piece of excrement.

He ought to be ashamed.

And he has the nerve to say Obama doesn't fight? Where the hell was his own fight?

I am supposed to worry about a corporatist? On this bill Sanders voted the same as McConnell. The same as Roberts of Kansas. The same as Coburn. In that case how was he any better than the rightest rightwinger?