This is typical Bernie Sanders. It’s what he did year after year as Chairman of the Senate Vets Committee. He’s an ideologue that constantly overreaches. He ends up blowing up the whole deal, rather than recognizing the political reality needed to compromise and get things done…
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1443926661792210945
Sanders is the master of “omnibus” bills that never pass. It was a chronic problem when he was Chair of the Senate Vets Committee. It’s why McCain was able to break him in 2014. And it’s why his record of passing things as SVAC Chair was so poor: nytimes.com/2016/02/07/us/…
Sanders sometimes presented good and noble ideas. But they were often totally unrealistic in an environment where Republicans get a vote. Too often, held out on ideology, and veterans paid the price for the legislative logjams. The examples are many: militarytimes.com/news/2016/02/1…
Sanders’ record of getting things done (and providing oversight) as Chair of SVAC is awful. And it’s in stark contrast with both recent chairs: Republican @SenatorIsakson and Democrat @SenatorTester. Both worked across party lines and got big things done: nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/…
SVAC is a useful case study as the urgent, overdue infrastructure need now hangs in the balance. Partisans & ideologues are killing our country’s ability to get big things done. Vets were/are dying, bridges are collapsing—stakes are too high for this shit. America needs results.
And for all of you who wanted Sanders over Biden, just imagine how all this would be going down right now if Sanders was President. With this Senate, he’d get NOTHING done.
And after that thread, cue the Twitter attacks on me from Bernie Sanders supporters, bots, sock puppets, and other uniquely intense, nasty and many accounts on this website.
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