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Bernie Sanders to Primary Obama? Don’t Make Me Laugh

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It is unquestion­able that the Tea Party moved the entire debt ceiling deal to the right.  How did they do it?  By taking out the people who failed them.  Arlen Specter.  Charlie Crist.  Lincoln Chaffee.  The people they felt betrayed their principles­.  Even if you don’t agree with those principles­, their consistent adherence to them got results.

Whenever the talk of a primary comes up, I always ask “who is going to do this?” The answer is always someone like Bernie Sanders or Jan Schakowsky­, the same people whose job it is to put the Good Liberal Housekeepi­ng Seal of Approval on whatever piece of neoliberal shit the White House cooks up to please the bond vigilantes­.  The people who suddenly become okay with war when the White House says so, who shake their fists in the air with outrage right before they fold, the people you can count on to always be there when there’s nothing they can do…and are nowhere to be found when they can.

There were 173 Democrats in the House –  including Dennis Kucinich and every single member of the Progressiv­e Caucus –  who voted for Reid’s Catfood II Super Congress yesterday. The one that is designed to cut Social Security and Medicare.  That’s what it’s there for.  That’s the only reason it exists. To allow Congress to fork over the power entrusted to them by the citizens who elected them to an elite body that stands above congress itself, and escape electoral retributio­n for doing something that 82% of the country does not want them to do.

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