re: #72 Walter L. Newton

A voice of reason…

Obama-GOP Tax Deal ‘an Absolute Disaster,’ Says Bernie Sanders, as Filibuster Talk Stirs

Dismissing President Obama’s embrace of Republican demands for tax breaks for billionaires and a massive estate-tax exemption for millionaires as “an absolute disaster and an insult to the vast majority of the American people,” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has promised to “do whatever I can to see that 60 votes are not acquired to pass this piece of legislation.”

[Link: www.thenation.com…]

Consider the source. Sanders is the only avowed socialist in the US Congress. There’s a reason why he’s not a Dem; he thinks they’re too far to the right.