How The Controversial Foreclosure Bill Made It Through Congress With No Public Debate

Why would you single Sanders out? Just as a gratuitous slam at socialism? Do you even know if Sanders was in the chamber for that vote?



I wouldn't defend Sanders (nor any other senator caucusing with Democrats) -- They've decided that the job of a US senator is to cut deals & do whatever compromising it takes to get bills passed into laws that can be later spun to voters as "accomplishments that've been achieved by us for you", regardless of all evidence to the contrary.



Their first priority is to keep their seats for their entire working lives or to parlay the seat into advancement for themselves by switchbacking back & forth between private & public sectors. The only way they can do that with the corrupted system we have is to work on behalf of corporations. They make laws (which they can later spin), far enough away from elections (hoping voters will have forgotten) that protect corporations' ability to gouge the People, in enough time before elections to tack back to populist rhetoric (when they need the People's votes to keep them in office).



Researching what happened in the senate that day, it's looking like the HarryReid designed a kind of 'perfect storm' to bring this bill in under the radar to get it passed, by sandwiching it between a whole lot of 'side work' (administrative housekeeping bills), late in the day, & having it introduced by one of the most boring senators (DLCer BobCasey) whose personality is
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