EDITED: Democrats actually SING, after the passage of the Citigroup bill, er, Cromnibus...

[RiverLover]

Last edited Tue Dec 16, 2014, 09:43 AM - Edit history (2)

Wall Street Wins, Democrats Sing as Compromise Spending Bill Passes Senate

Sen. Cory Booker wrote of the impromptu session: "Pictured here are Debbie Stabenow (an impressive piano player), my senior Senator who has a great voice Bob Menendez, Barbara Boxer, Roger Wicker, Tim Kaine and Amy Klobuchar. This was truly a memorable experience. #CRomnibusCarols"

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/14/wall-street-wins-democrats-sing-compromise-spending-bill-passes-senate

There's a rethug in there too.

How nice for them.

*Edited to take out "celebrated after passing..." which was presumptive & proven FALSE.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Corrupt

[Demsrule86]

11. I can't stand any of them.

I swear to God...I usually work my tail off for Democrats every election and I may just sit out 2016...what is the use? If we get Hillary, then we get a boatload of GOP lite and corporatism...so depressing...these Democrats sold us out...and I have no desire to even vote for any of them...I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils...both evil.

[genwah]

18. I know, me too. Although now is the time we should be looking at primary challengers for the Dems we

can't stand. Or real Democratic challengers to the incumbent R's, gerrymandering be damned.

That's one of the things I liked about the 50 state strategy, the states picked their own candidates.

[VanillaRhapsody]

29. by the end of 2015....you are going to know the difference between those Hillary Clinton and

Rethuglicans enough to stop calling HER Republican lite....

You are forgotten how bad Republicans really are....but you are about to find out...Republican Winter is coming....

[TheKentuckian]

37. No matter how the Beast Rabban squeezes, when Feyd Rautha comes we will not forget he is Harkonnen.

[MFrohike]

40. Oh shit

Perfect nerd analogy!

[TheKentuckian]

41. In fairness, it was hung up over the plate. All too easy.

[FSogol]

43. Cool story bro: "I usually work my tail off for Democrats every election and I may just sit out 2016

[kydo]

53. awesome story bro

If you worked for Democrats every election as your fairy tale states, then you would have seen the obvious. These weren't the sell outs.

Awesome fairy tale though.

[WhiteTara]

55. It's 2 years away.

Find a candidate you can get behind...locally! and help clean up that cess pool.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Why is it called Cromnibus? Shouldn't it be caled the Cronybus?

[magical thyme]

14. perfect!

I was trying to think of a new, more appropriate, name for it. YOu nailed it.

[woo me with science]

22. Henceforth I will use that more accurate term.

Thank you.

[msanthrope]

27. Tell me why Booker is being critiqued by you for voting "No?" nt

[Autumn]

3. Here is a wonderful timely reminder posted by another DUer.

Ignore the 3rd Way shills with extreme prejudice

Don't even bother listening or engaging them. They are toxic. Their time is gone, over, finished.

The time is now for the Democratic rank-and-file to agitate for an immediate, radical change at the top of the Democratic leadership -- with members of the rank-and-file itself taking some of those spots.

The 3rd Wayers are not Democrats; they are infiltrators. Treat them as such.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10025767160

[msanthrope]

25. Yeah..but Booker voted no...so it kinda blows your narrative. nt

[woo me with science]

32. Excellent reminder.

Busy, busy propaganda machine.

[Autumn]

39. It's excellent advice.

[doc03]

4. The assholes vote for another bank bailout while at the same time they

throw 10 million retirees under the bus. Fucking bastards Where was the great Hillary on any of this?

[msanthrope]

26. Um no..the reason why this OP is full of fail is because they voted " no." nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

30. Uh Hillary is enjoying semi retirement right now....she doesn't owe you anything....

[leftofcool]

52. Didn't you get the memo?

Everything is Hillary's fault!

[VanillaRhapsody]

57. DOH!

How could I forget?

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Actually,

they are singing Christmas carols, something normal for the season. I couldn't do their job, wouldn't even want to try. Are they perfect? No. But we have some damned fine people working FOR us, and if they want to pause for a few minutes and engage in some holiday celebration, good for them, I will NOT turn that into evidence of corruption nor condemn them for it. Criminy.

[RiverLover]

6. "#CRomnibusCarols" is what Cory Booker called them. He took the pic, he should know.

[bklyncowgirl]

13. If this goes viral the Dems may move to shut down ol' Cory's Twitter Account

He did vote no on the bill but made no noise that might scare his Wall Street backers.

[msanthrope]

28. He was celebrating his No vote...didn't you know he voted No? nt

[JI7]

7. am i really supposed to be outraged or upset in any way over this ?

[msanthrope]

20. A Black Senator who voted no said something the OP didn't like. Thank God he didn't say "folks!" n

[VanillaRhapsody]

33. YES because they are desperate....

[brooklynite]

8. UNREC

The singing was holiday caroling, and had nothing to do with the vote. Even Common Dreams didn't allege that they were "celebrating" the passing of the Cromnibus bill.


But you knew that, didn't you.....

[Demsrule86]

12. They passed a bill

that ensured that Wall Street could gamble with derivatives without worrying about losses because taxpayers get to pay, they passed a bill that will destroy what is left of pensions...they cut every damned program that matters...and they can sing...fuck them. They stabbed the base in the back. They could have fought.

[Jim Lane]

19. "They"? Several of those in the chorale voted against it.

I urged my Senators, Booker and Menendez, to vote No, but I didn't think I could count on them. Happily, both came through. So now their reward for standing up to Citigroup (and standing up to the President of their own party) is that they get dissed for singing Christmas carols?

As an agnostic, I say they can sing all the Christmas carols they want.

Your use of "They" is correct only in the sense that they're members of the body that approved the bill. I guess they could show their adherence to principle by resigning in protest. That way Christie gets to find two unindicted cronies to fill the seats instead. Yeah, that's a great plan.

[VanillaRhapsody]

34. How is this not exactly what Fox News does?

take something perfectly normal and blow it completely out of proportion with bullshit....to try and fool the "lowest common denominator"....meaning anyone that cannot figure out they were singing Christmas Carols.....

[FSogol]

42. Common Dreams is all you need to see to tell that this is major BS. n/t

[SidDithers]

56. +1...nt

Sid

[daredtowork]

9. #cronybus

That needs to become a meme!

Democrats singing in unison with Republicans. Together they rammed through the spending bill that would take money from the poor and give money to the rich. A Christmas Carol, indeed!

#cronybus

[msanthrope]

24. Except that Booker voted no...so MEME FAIL. nt

[SidDithers]

10. Better Believe It!!...nt

Sid

[Bobbie Jo]

15. Yup

One and the same.

[FSogol]

44. True dat. n/t

[KoKo]

16. Christmas Carols when we Tortured People...caused death, destruction & dislocation

of millions over the ME and are continuing the bombing and our State Department is pushing for our waging Endless War in the new AUMF?

Celebratory Christmas Carols? When the "Cromnibus" gives unlimited funding for MORE spending on WAR without even a vote on a New AUMF for our new wars?

[msanthrope]

21. Um...Booker vote no. So did several others pictured. nt

[woo me with science]

36. +1000000 It's unfathomable, what has become of this party and this country.

Now right in the open in front of our faces and relentlessly defended by a morally bankrupt, totalitarian-style propaganda machine.

I keep trying to imagine describing this descent to a relative who died well before 9/11.

Perpetual war, mass surveillance, police state, propaganda machines, in-your-face looting of the entire country and dismantling of our Constitution, ....and TORTURE by the government of the United States of America. It's absolutely surreal.

[n2doc]

17. Disingenuous post- Many of those pictured voted NO

Booker, Menendez, Boxer, Klobuchar voted NO.

I doubt they were all singing a unified praise about the bill. Maybe they were just trying to have a fun moment in the middle of a buch of politics.

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/senate/2/354

[RiverLover]

47. Yep. Please see edit. nt

[msanthrope]

23. OMG...You didn't realize how many of those pictured voted no, did you?

Booker can celebrate...he voted no....so did Menendez and Klobuchar.

But you didn't realize that...did you?

[arcane1]

31. Your subject line is deliberately misleading (though admittedly the headline isn't much better)

Why did you write a headline that deliberately misrepresents the article's content?

[msanthrope]

35. You Better Believe It! nt

[RiverLover]

38. I thought their headline was worse. "Wall Street Wins, Democrats SING" I thought that was bad.

All I put was how nice for them.

I thought it kind of strange we were here, bemoaning the passage of the spending bill, while they were singing. And Booker called it "Cromnibus Carols".

It was interesting too. A little insight into their world.

It was not my intention to upset anyone. At all.

I'm sorry if this upset you.

[Bluenorthwest]

45. Booker voted NO. You presented him in the opposite fashion, as if he supported the bill

When a potential candidate's boosters are consistently dishonest in their methods it is not helpful to that candidate.

[RiverLover]

46. Cory Booker Sides With Elizabeth Warren On Washington's Wall Street Giveaway

I'll try to atone for not thinking that through...

Cory Booker Sides With Elizabeth Warren On Washington's Wall Street Giveaway
12/15/14

WASHINGTON -- Even Cory Booker hates the Wall Street giveaway Congress approved over the weekend.

The Democratic senator from New Jersey has received scads of progressive disdain over the years for his close ties to financial elites. But Booker diverged from his typical rhetorical deference to Wall Street in a heated speech from the Senate floor on Thursday, blasting "very connected special interests" with "armies of high-paid lobbyists" for rolling back protections against risky trading "at the heart of the 2008 fiscal crisis."

"This is wrong," Booker said. "I'm outraged. I am frustrated that we are not on the floor debating this and instead are having this put into a bill that everyone says must pass."...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15/cory-booker-elizabeth-warren_n_6329202.html

[msanthrope]

48. Why not edit your OP to reflect the fact you are wrong? You have made an OP about a Black

senator, implying that he voted yes....

And you've let every single post that accuses him of corruption and other chicanery stand.

How does that help Democrats?

I suggest you read this post....and this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5951191

[RiverLover]

49. What???? OMG I don't judge on skin tone EVER.

That is insane.

I just went by the article I read & it looked nuts that we here were depressed the bill passed & they were singing.

Do NOT EVER accuse me of racism. Fucking BS.

[msanthrope]

51. Funny...it's a picture of white people singing, and the only person you critique

is the Black senator who voted no. A potential VP pick.

Are you going to.correct the posters who joined you in the pile on?

[RiverLover]

54. He took the picture! Called it "Cromnibus Carols" and I just pointed that out.

His skin tone NEVER entered my mind. I swear that on everything & everyone I love.

I didn't even think about it until you posted your BS this am.

[msanthrope]

50. Historically, ratfucking described the process by which a weaker Democratic candidate

was puffed up and encouraged to damage the stronger candidates. This was Karl Rove's specialty. Misinformation about a potential VP pick is not surprising.