But Bernie doesn't get things done!!!!!

[DanTex]

Link to tweet

[drray23]

1. Yeah meaning he is unable to lead on anything.

Rather, he puts up amendments after somebody else has introduced a bill.

[tarheelsunc]

5. And the Amazon thing is a total scam.

Sure they raised wages, but they also cut benefits significantly.

[ehrnst]

17. And it's not like he isn't sharing profits from his book sales with them.

[AncientGeezer]

2. Amendments....not Bills.....amendments to Bills done by others...

The irony isn't lost.....it's very informative.

[tarheelsunc]

6. Some lead, some follow. eom

[AncientGeezer]

7. I hear ya....some hitch their wagons to leaders...with amendments

[AGeddy]

3. Bernie is a political televangelist

Link to tweet

[showblue22]

4. Sorry, he still is behind by a lot

Got their bills out of committee the least often compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 1 other)
Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Sanders introduced 1 bill in 2019 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: S.J.Res. 7: A joint resolution to direct ...

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile).


Got bipartisan cosponsors on the fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 1 other)
In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 1 of Sanders’s 23 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Sanders caucused with in 2019.

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile).

Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.


Was 2nd most absent in votes compared to All Senators
Sanders missed 63.3% of votes (271 of 428 votes) in 2019. View Sanders’s Profile »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (98th percentile); All Senators (98th percentile).




https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357/report-card/2019

[blm]

8. Take the financial industry issue he has railed against since the 80s ...

Warren had the knowledge, competency, and strength of character to force her plan through to the creation of an agency to hold the financial industry accountable to the consumers it had been squeezing and exploiting for years.

Yet, so many times we have seen Sanders supporters online preaching that ONLY Bernie cares about people and will side with them over the banks. Or that Bernie is the one the banks fear. Utter codswallop. Nobody fears someone who can’t get beyond the talking stage about serious problems. They fear people who have a complete grasp of what the industry does and takes ACTION.

[ehrnst]

18. Warren delivered the goods, as did Barney Frank. Bernie, not so much. (nt)

[Happyhippychick]

9. Three bills Bernie

[redstateblues]

11. You nailed it Hippychick!!

[Happyhippychick]

13. :)

[Moderateguy]

10. Wow. 30 years of congressional accomplishments fit in a single tweet

[NurseJackie]

16. How humiliating for Bernie.

Glad someone took a moment to summarize his 30 year career for us.

[W_HAMILTON]

24. LMAO

[Fresh_Start]

12. You do know that the roll call amendment thing was upto 2007...

after 2007 only 2 roll call amendments.

I guess he got tired wearing the crown because this is what he's done since 2007

2 Roll call amendments which passed:
2015-2016 S.Amdt.386 - To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicaid beneficiaries from benefit cuts.
2009-2010 S.AMDT.3738 - To require the non-partisan Government Accountability Office to conduct an independent audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that does not interfere with monetary policy, to let the American people know the names of the recipients of over $2,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer assistance from the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

3 Bills enacted into law S. 885 (113th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, as the “Thaddeus Stevens Post Office”.

S. 2782 (113th): A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to improve the Federal charter for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and for other ...
S. 893 (113th): Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013

[ehrnst]

14. You mean like releasing his full medical records like he demanded that Biden do?

Link to tweet

[NurseJackie]

19. He's hiding something.

We deserve to know the truth.

[sheshe2]

21. For thee and not for me.

[ehrnst]

15. He hasn't held that ""roll call amendment" record since he was still in congress....

Others have passed him up by a long way.

But I thought that was too many years ago to care about?

[Celerity]

20. David Sirota

A journalist (and Bernie Sanders supporter) had a relationship he kept from his readers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-bernie-sanders-supporter-and-journalist-had-a-secret-he-kept-from-his-readers/2019/03/20/063aabee-4b26-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

Journalist David Sirota has spent the past few months trashing Democratic candidates not named Bernie Sanders, as well as those who support anyone other than Sanders. “Positively unhinged,” he tweeted in response to those who disagreed with one of his takes. His critics, he said at another point, are “mentally incapacitated.”

Among other targets, Sirota has gone after Sens. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.) and Cory Booker (N.J.), former vice president Joe Biden and former congressman Beto O’Rourke (Tex.), all of whom are expected to contend for the Democratic presidential nomination against Sanders (I-Vt.).

But what Sirota, who wrote for a variety of publications, didn’t reveal was where he was coming from: essentially, from inside Sanders’s campaign.

Unmentioned to his 125,000 Twitter followers and readers of his articles, Sirota has been advising Sanders while publicly attacking the candidate’s critics and rivals. On Tuesday, the relationship became official — Sirota was hired as a speechwriter and senior adviser to Sanders — just as the Atlantic magazine called out what could be the journalist’s conflict of interest.


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Sanders Promised Civility but Hired Twitter Attack Dog

David Sirota had been working unofficially for Sanders while savaging the other Democratic candidates on Twitter.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/sanders-promised-civility-hired-twitter-attack-dog/585259/

Shortly before he gave speeches launching his 2020 campaign earlier this month, Bernie Sanders emailed his supporters, urging them to “do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponents—talking about the issues we are fighting for, not about personalities or past grievances. I want to be clear that I condemn bullying and harassment of any kind and in any space.”

What he didn’t include was that one of the people already advising him and helping him write those launch speeches is one of his most famously aggressive supporters online.

Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on the website Capital & Main, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanders’s Democratic opponents—all without disclosing his work with Sanders—and has been pushing back on critics by saying that he was criticizing the other Democrats as a journalist.* He centered many of his attacks on Beto O’Rourke, but he also bashed Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Mike Bloomberg, and even Andrew Cuomo.

On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for The Guardian, Deepal Patadia, said that Sirota informed the newspaper that he was in conversations with the Sanders team starting in January, and did not file a column forward from that point. Patadia did not address if this account was based on anything other than Sirota’s characterizations, and whether The Guardian was aware of conversations that Sirota was having with Sanders aides through 2018, as people with direct knowledge say he was. Sirota himself would not address this on the record.

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[Docreed2003]

28. +1

[Gothmog]

30. sanders has shown some extremely poor judgement on staffing issues

sanders has demonstrated some extremely bad judgement on staffing issues. Hiring and not firing a liar like Sirota is a great example. Having stein supporters in key positions is another example of sanders' very poor judgment

[NurseJackie]

40. He was sending a message of disrespect.

It was intentional. Very disappointing.

[TexasTowelie]

22. I smell pork. nt

[SidDithers]

23. Wait, did I miss another Post Office naming?...nt

Sid

[Gothmog]

25. LOL

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

32. +1. The King of Yelling and Doing Nothing.

[Gothmog]

39. Amendment King means he let others do the hard work of legislating and then pissed on it to make it

Link to tweet

[NurseJackie]

35. Damn! Another myth busted. (Just like the "votes with Dems 99.9% of the time" myth.)

I think if you round UP that "votes with Dems" percentage it's closer to 80% ... yet the myth persists to make him seem more palatable.

[Gothmog]

38. I have never taken sanders seriouusly because of his utter lack of accomplishments.

sanders has NO significant legislative accomplishments in the real world and is relying on a magical voter revolution to get his proposals adopted. So far, sanders magical voter revolution has not materialized in the real world

[beachbumbob]

27. lol BIG difference between "authoring" a bill and a 3 sentence admendment.

what bill or how many has Bernie been the author on in all those years in DC?

[rzemanfl]

29. Hoping for five. n/t

[George II]

31. Amazon didn't raise their minimum wage because of Sanders, they were doing it anyway....

Anyone have any verification that it was because of "pressure from Sanders"?

[BeyondGeography]

33. Bernie, Party of One

A guy by his lonesome can only do so much judging from the record.

[NurseJackie]

34. I'm thinking that Hillary's recent comments on Hulu were valid...

... based on the evidence.

[George II]

36. Yes, the Amendment King. Here's one that I'm sure progressives are proud of:

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

37. LOL-Here is one of sanders' amendments

Link to tweet

[zackymilly]

41. I don't think this post went too well. n/t