Govtrack.us: Out of 100 senators for 2013-14, Bernie scored

[Ichingcarpenter]

Combating "Bernie wouldn't get anything done as President, he's too far left." Govtrack.us: Out of 100 senators for 2013-14, Bernie scored 6th highest in working with House, 8th highest in getting laws enacted, 10th highest in getting bills out of committee, & 20th highest in leadership score

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357/report-card/2014

[merrily]

1. Not bad for an Indie. I don't know if they count amendments enacted in with laws enacted, but

he also got a lot of amendments passed.

Remember, he also founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and chaired it for its first 8 years, growing it from a half dozen original members, well, from 0, really, to the largest caucus in Congress.

[djean111]

2. Isn't it fascinating, though, how some insist that Obama had his hands tied (well, except for Fast

Track ) by the current Congress, but Bernie should have been able to do anything and everything that he wanted.
Someone is missing some logic skilz, and that would not be Bernie's supporters.

[merrily]

3. It's not about missing logic skills.

John Cusack and Ione Skye.

[djean111]

4. Oh, I know. Some of the inane stuff that gets floated around here makes me think this is

just a mad meme testing ground, because it is so easily disproved.

[merrily]

5. Yet, disproving does not affect continued, endless repetition.

I've been sticking relatively close to this group and the populist group and, sometimes, GD sans primary. But, even in this group and the populist group.....

And GD seems to get a bit of primary shit stirring by proxy, code or whatever.

This hidden OP MIGHT be an example of that:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026950414

and POSSIBLY this unhidden one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6952336

[nxylas]

7. I actually didn't think the hidden OP was that bad

I found the reactions hysterical and over the top. Saying that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both speak to their party's base is NOT the same thing as saying Bernie Sanders=Donald Trump. They are different, because their party's bases are different. One is concerned with equality and social justice, and the other is concerned with ensuring that white, ammosexual, protestant males retain the privileges to which they feel entitled.

[merrily]

8. Not sure, but I think it got hidden because it was in GD, not GD Primary.

I could be wrong because it was a hide, not merely a thread lock. My personal objection to it would be that it was a slam against Bernie in GD, very thinly disguised as a comment on the Republican primary, not the Democratic one.

[merrily]

6. kick

[Tashca]

9. Wow

Very impressive!!

[retrowire]

10. boom

knowledge. thanks for this.

[historylovr]

11. Oh, really? Guess they got nothing there either.

Who would have guessed.

[libdem4life]

12. Another one bites the dust.

And for good measure...

[Enthusiast]

13. Kicked and recommended!