"A Political Crisis"

[applegrove]

A Political Crisis

at Bernie Sanders

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/a-political-crisis

"SNIP.............................


Sunday, October 6, 2013
Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers with the second biggest fortune in America, are threatening to bankroll primary campaigns by Tea Party extremists challenging Republicans in Congress who don’t go along with their crusade to undo the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Saturday during a 90-minute presentation at The New Yorker Festival. Then on Sunday The New York Times published a report detailing how the Kochs and others bankrolled a coalition of conservative activists pushing to repeal the health care law and threatening Republicans who won’t go along with closing the government to try to get their way.

It’s “a political crisis,” Sanders said of the shutdown. It is part of a Koch-funded campaign to annul the law that passed Congress four years ago and was upheld by the Supreme Court and was a key issue in the 2012 presidential campaign that President Obama won by 5 million votes. And it is about more than trying to unwind what the American people decided through the democratic process, Sanders stressed.Their agenda is to end Social Security and Medicare, abolish the minimum wage, destroy the EPA and undo every other program enacted in the past half century to protect working families in America, Sanders added.




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[Bjorn Against]

1. And the Chamber of Commerce has promised to assist Republicans who vote for a clean resolution

The Chamber of Commerce has been a huge Republican donor and they oppose the shut down. You can expect all out war between the Kochs and the Chamber of Commerce in the next round of GOP primaries.

[Cha]

3. I didn't know that, thanks.

[PDJane]

2. It's long past time to tax these people in the way their wealth deserves to be taxed.

Seeing as how most of it is basically stolen from the rest of us.

[madamesilverspurs]

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