Hillary "HALF LIE" Clinton told voters that Bernie sanders voted for the CFMA for deregulation.
She failed to mention that it was snuck into an omnibus spending bill that everyone except 4 people signed including HER HUSBAND the president.
She also forgot to mention that is was HER chief economic adviser that pushed for the CFMA and helped write the CFMA!
Why is Hillary willing to stoop that low?
The Most Disingenuous Attack on Bernie Yet
Wednesday, 20 January 2016 00:00
By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed
If you watched Sunday's Democratic debate, you learned something interesting about Bernie Sanders: he voted for the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, something Hillary Clinton was all too eager to point out when the two of them got to talking about Wall Street reform.
Sounds pretty bad, right? The guy who goes on and on about how bad Wall Street is actually voted for the bill that crashed economy. So much for all that "political revolution" stuff.
But here's the thing: Hillary Clinton isn't telling a true story about Bernie Sanders and his vote for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, or CFMA.
As Robert Scheer has pointed out over at Truthdig, then-Congressman Sanders voted for the CFMA, not because he wanted to, but because he had to.
The CFMA had been shoved into an omnibus spending bill at the last minute as part of a deal between Republicans and President Bill Clinton, and because this was a time when, you know, Congress actually did its job, Sanders bit the bullet and voted for the whole package - CFMA included - to keep the government open.
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34497-the-most-disingenuous-attack-on-bernie-yet
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