Bernie Sanders Reveals How as President He'll Beat Obstructionist Congress

[Senator Tankerbell]

[Ed Suspicious]

1. "The power of the presidency is the power to persuade." ~ Richard Neustadt

President Sanders will use the bully pulpit in concert with the American people to persuade congress to do the right thing.

This guy knows what it takes. He didn't just fall off the turnip truck. With every passing week he gains power and influence. He is going to make a great president. Congress better get ready to feel the Bern.

[arcane1]

2. Plus, if he wins it will be because people got involved. Once that starts, it won't stop! nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

14. It's all about the people, he's telling us exactly what to do.

START A POLITICAL REVOLUTION !

[Ed Suspicious]

17. That's his whole point, right here. He will go to the people. If congress won't remove head from

ass, he will work to remove the asses from congress. He will reinvigorate people to take back their government. Yeah!

[Thinkingabout]

3. Where has all this persuation been since 1991?

[daleanime]

9. 'Status quo, status quo, status quo.....'

Well, it does have a nice ring to it.

[Thinkingabout]

11. I was thinking the same.

[Ed Suspicious]

13. That is not surprising.

"I was thinking the same."

[Left Coast2020]

30. You forgot "Follow The Money".

Some other candidates for Prez do on a daily basis.

[daleanime]

34. And if that's what you want.....

you know which candidate to support.....


now could you talk her into having more debates? Not just talking about it.

[Ed Suspicious]

12. When we have a president who in response to war and attack on our country, who fail to

harness the power of a population eager to come together and do something, when we have a president whose response to national tragedy is to tell Americans to go shopping . . . Not terribly persuasive.

[libcrystal]

28. Not covered by media

The only reason you're hearing about it now is because he's a presidential candidate who is doing well with his events. The POTUS gets covered, for sure.

[Thinkingabout]

29. I have looked at his record of voting and bills introduced.

[Gregorian]

4. The sooner this man is in the White House, the sooner the country begins healing.

He has already brought unexpected help to many of us. My cynicism has lifted.

So there's the answer to the question we all asked on the first day he announced. How will he do it. The answer is WE will do it. And he'll use his position to bring us together.

[Maineman]

5. I have been waiting 50 years for him. Integrity plus know-how.

I dare anyone to try to get me to vote for someone else -- in the primary or the general election.

[hedda_foil]

8. As have I. 52 years, actually... since those bullets in Deally Plaza cut down our last best hope.

[Plucketeer]

6. The options are crystal clear

We can live by OUR choice or by CORPORATE choice. Bernie Sanders is the ONLY candidate that affords US these choices. All the other VIABLE candidates afford us the latter (Corporate) fate.

[Ed Suspicious]

18. This. /\

[AzDar]

7. Bernie!!

[Paka]

10. He's brilliant.

There is no doubt about his ability to make things happen.

[Fritz Walter]

15. Congress MUST feel the Bern

From the grassroots.
They must be held accountable. And not by the special interests. Or by the 1%!!

[passiveporcupine]

16. He's no green ideologist

He knows his power comes from us and he needs to keep us engaged to get anything done.

And we have let go of the reins of power for far too long.

[Evergreen Emerald]

19. Well, he has been in the Senate for decades and has not persuaded anyone.

And, Obama is the best persuader I have ever seen in the White house. If he could not persuade, it is unlikely that Bernie will change his ways significant enough to suddenly persuade.

[DaveT]

21. Persuade who to do what?

Obama never tried to do what Sanders sets out as his method of operation.

[potone]

22. The problem was that Obama didn't use the power he had when he first became president.

He wasted far too much time trying to persuade Republican Congressmen and women to be reasonable. Obama is a very eloquent man, but he didn't use the bully pulpit as he should have. To be fair, though, when he came into office he was surrounded by disasters on all sides and had very little help from Congress. I wish he had given up on the Republicans sooner and had gone to the people and asked us to pressure our representatives to support him. I think Sanders has learned from this mistake.

[Senator Tankerbell]

24. It seems like he's done a pretty good job of persuading Hillary Clinton in recent months.

She's certainly been following his lead on a number of issues.

But the point isn't persuasion. He doesn't believe persuasion is possible. You're not going to make significant progress politely asking greedy rich people to be less greedy. You have to mobilize working/middle class people to force them.

[MrMickeysMom]

27. "You have to mobilize working/middle class people to force them. "

Precisely what we have to do.

"We" includes trade unions and professional groups who are licensed in health care, child care, teaching, social workers, food workers, in other words… the very people who know those issues and to whom the legislature shall hear from.

[AlbertCat]

25. he has been in the Senate for decades and has not persuaded anyone.

Here we go again. Unfounded superlatives.

Not persuaded ANYONE? He has made absolutely nothing happen for decades?


Riiight.....


"And, Obama is the best persuader I have ever seen in the White house."

Too young for Johnson?

Yeah...Obama's the greatest persuader.... when not giving up things to the GOP....

[DaveT]

20. That is what I expected the Community Organizer

to do when he got elected.

It was baffling that he did not, at first. Then we saw President Obama spend his entire presidency trying to convince the Republicans to agree to their own platform of Entitlement Reductions, while refusing to even put forward the progressive agenda that Sanders mentions here.

We got a lot of problems in this country but I think Bernie puts his finger on the biggest one. We are now a nation of consumers who think that a politician is a product to buy, rather than somebody to challenge us to do our jobs as citizens of a democracy. The Billionaires are delighted to sell us Hope and Change, while lulling us back to sleep -- keeping us separate from what the Government does.

Bernie offers us the chance to get our society back. It is up to us to do it.

[CrispyQ]

23. Every time I hear him speak I like him more.

[Scuba]

26. K&R

[Left Coast2020]

31. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

I will be attending my first BERNIE organization meeting. I can hardly wait to meet people committed as I am to saving our democracy for the oligarchs.

I just wish someone would tell me how you contact people with a cell phone.

[mhatrw]

32. Get the asses of the masses in the STREET!

That is the only thing that gets the top 0.1% to compromise one iota.

[zebonaut]

33. Hillary is Prettier; but I'm voting for Bernie!

[Enthusiast]

35. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

Yay, Bernie!