If you are going to be a single-issue candidate, at least know your single issue.
Smackdown by Brian--and Sanders deserves it.
Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon 14h14 hours ago
If you are going to be a single-issue candidate, at least know your single issue.
Sanders doesn’t know much beyond his standard stump speech about breaking up the banks. http://wapo.st/1TzC9Eh
9 things Bernie Sanders should’ve known about but didn’t in that Daily News interview
My former colleagues on the New York Daily News editorial board sat down with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on April 1 for an illuminating interview. The more I read the transcript, the more it became clear that the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination doesn’t know much beyond his standard stump speech about breaking up the banks and how he had the good judgment to vote against the Iraq War in 2002.
[Here’s why a Bernie Sanders victory for the nomination would make him a hypocrite]
Nine moments in the Sanders conversation left me agape. From his own plans for breaking up too-big-to-fail banks to how he would handle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to dealing with the Islamic State, the man giving homegirl Hillary Clinton a run for her money seemed surprisingly out of his depth. The bold in the text is mine for emphasis.
1. Breaking up the banks
Daily News: Okay. Well, let’s assume that you’re correct on that point. How do you go about doing [breaking up the banks]?
Sanders: How you go about doing it is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail.
Daily News: But do you think that the Fed, now, has that authority?
Sanders: Well, I don’t know if the Fed has it. But I think the administration can have it.
Daily News: How? How does a President turn to JPMorgan Chase, or have the Treasury turn to any of those banks and say, “Now you must do X, Y and Z?”
Sanders: Well, you do have authority under the Dodd-Frank legislation to do that, make that determination.
Daily News: You do, just by Federal Reserve fiat, you do?
Sanders: Yeah. Well, I believe you do.
2. The legal implications of breaking up a financial institution..........
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I forget what the delegate count is now that the final numbers are in--but the amount spent by Bernie was over 2:1
Daily News Bin @DailyNewsBin
Bernie Sanders spent $2.4 million to win Wisconsin, only came out six delegates ahead
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-spent-2-4-million-in-wisconsin-only-came-out-six-delegates-ahead/24373/ …
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But I am quite sure he can mumble his stump speech in his sleep--poor Jane.
