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After hearing Bernie Sanders on Hartmann's show. A caller asked Bernie his position on investigations into BushCo high crimes and misdemeanors. Sanders said he thought it was "important to know what the president and vice president knew and when they knew it" but then went right back to his talking points, which focused on the shrinking middle class and the need to work on "what matters to the American people", like jobs, health care, etc. Hartmann even tried to get him back onto the subject but Sanders stood firm, saying it was easy for Democrats/progressives to get "hung up on one thing" instead of the bigger bread-and-butter issues of basic survival. I thought about this remark and I wish I could have called in (it was a replay of the earlier broadcast) to explain to Sanders that this IS an issue of basic survival. To wit: how do we continue to survive as a nation, as a democratic republic, if there is NO government accountability? Yes, you are right, we did vote to end the war. We also voted to end kind of lying that got us into this mess and continues to keep us there, depleting the nation's resources and undermining our faith in our own "elected representatives". I don't know who has the answer, but so far the only one who has a real plan to get us out is Kucinich, saying the Congress needs to cut the funding.
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