It’s time to give Bernie a choice. Either play with the team or be cut loose to try to play as a free agent. I no longer care about, nor am I worried about his running a campaign as an independent - he’s been essentially doing that anyway. And at least he’ll be lobbing his grenades from outside instead of inside the compound.
But Cornell West has never expressed a negative thought about Hillary, though. Grow up Bernie. Your whining is getting tiresome. What exactly do you think losing a primary process entitles you to demand? And if you don’t get what you demand, you’ll send your berniedudes to destroy the whole convention? Again, grow up. It’s sad to see a man in his late 70’s act like a twelve year old brat.
A bridge too far-Frank, the archetect of effective bank regulation. Time for Warren to step in and support her former MA colleague. That’ll give pespective and light to Sanders real problems and dishonesty.
From Nate Silver, updated 1219 EDT 28 May 2016:
[According to our latest polls-plus forecast, Hillary Clinton has a 97% chance of winning the California primary.]
From ME:
[“Counting today, there are 10 more days of BernieBros… then the Democrats enter a new stage of the campaign”]
PostScript: Although I have Military Service, I was never in a Crusade like Overlord. I cannot imagine how those soldiers felt. For that reason I try to glean as much as possible from written and film accounts (both fiction and historical).
After 7 June 2016, the bullshit stops and we will see what kind of Crusade we can mount to rescue our country. What kind of Democratic Party and American People we are…and, if I may be permitted to paraphrase a Soviet mother as she worked 16-hour days in a Russian factory beyond the Urals, “I work like this so that, with every weapon I manufacture, my son comes closer to being back to me”. The Russians lost at least 7,000,000 in battle and an additional 7,000,000 civilians. The Allies would not have won the war without this Soviet sacrifice. The bulk of Sir Martin Gilbert’s superb history of The Second World War (same title) reads like scores of maps depicting the Soviets labouriously and bloodily pushing back the Nazis.
SURELY sauntering down to cast one’s vote in November 2016 against the greatest threat to American Democracy since 2 September 1945 is the LEAST the disinterested masses of voters can do.
Not to mention, Frank is a gay rights icon and Bernie is not doing too well with the LGBT community these days.
Mom, Barney’s looking at me funny.
Fuck you, Bernie. I hope the DNC crams this right up your phony progressive ass. It was bad enough when they allowed that anti-Obama moron Cornel (“Brother Trump”) West on one of the committees, but thinking that the DNC is going to flush two Dems with the standings and reputations in the party like Frank and Malloy have shows how fucking desperate, delusional, and traitorous Bernie/Weaver/Devine/Jane-Not-Jetson truly are.
Oh, and in case you missed it, Bernie and his pals aren’t too good at screening the songs they play as intros to his rallies, since they were playing a vile, anti-gay rap screed to introduce Saint Bernie Thursday in Lancaster, CA:
Now, hilariously, there are Bernistas all over the Internet saying someone dubbed the rap song over the original audio. It’s a conspiracy! (who knew DWS had a degree in audio engineering?) It’s a trap! (H/T: Admiral Akbar - a REAL fucking Democrat!) It’s the biggest plot against Bernie since the last plot against Bernie!
Frank has appeared a number of times on O’Donnell’s The Last Word, and I hang on every word as he lays out his pro-Clinton and pro-Warren positions and sometimes has taken on Bernie supporter Nina Turner of Ohio. Frank’s sister Ann Lewis was an operative for the Clinton-Gore campaign, so all this is clearly getting under his skin.
Hillary Clinton won the vote. Sanders and his allies have alarmed all of us with their daily attacks Stand with us The Democratic Party Now! Your points of reservations are childish as compared with the frightening prospect of Donald Trump. Trump says anything anything he is a dangerous panderer who could easily blow up the world. Sanders doesn’t fear Hillary losing as much as he fears himself losing shame on him
No. No way. Enough with the placating.
As everyone has pointed out before, this cruddy behaviour will keep on going, probably til November. And why not? His legacy is down the crapper and he’s losing supporters. He can continue in this fashion thinking he’s “sticking ti to the Man” (or Woman) but he’s just tearing down his own positions by exposing himself as a crank and a fraud.
“Both Governor Malloy and Mr.Frank (the"Chairs”) have been harsh,vocal critics of Senator Sanders,and equally active supporters of his challenger, Hillary Clinton," the complaint said. “While it is expected, acceptable and even desirable, that committee members and leaders at the Convention will represent a diversity of political views and presidential preferences,the preferences of party officials must not interfere with the fair and neutral administration of Convention business and procedures.”
"Bernie Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years with little to show for it in terms of his accomplishments, and that’s because of the role he stakes out," Frank told Slate in a piece published last week. “It is harder to get things done in the American political system than a lot of people realize, and what happens is they blame the people in office for the system.”
“I think he’s dead wrong,” Malloy said, pointing to times Sanders appeared to side with the NRA, including by voting against the Brady Bill. (Sanders, however, has also advocated for federal limits on assault weapons and in 2012 received a D-minus rating from the NRA).
Malloy added that because of the way Sanders had voted in the past “a lot of people are paying the price for it.”
but hey you do you Bernie, you do you.
Here is an interview from WaPo with Devine on this.
Take particular note of this line…
“To have chairs of committees who have not been overt partisans attacking Senator Sanders [would be] a very positive step in terms of building trust and good will between the campaigns,” Devine said.
A step. Its nowhere near the end of the demands, if the Party continues to roll over for this sanctimonious prick. I say its time to cut him off at the knees…he wants to play hardball, show him the the proverbial baseball bat up close and personal then.
Each one of these steps, doesn’t move us closer to unifying, it moves us further away, because it emboldens him and his Bernout supporters to dig in even deeper and demand more.
Twenty years from now, people will be saying, “Hey, remember the Presidential campaign of 2016, and that old white guy with the crazy hair and the perpetually wagging finger of admonition and that roast chicken that landed on his podium during one of his campaign speeches and that time his feet were washed personally by the Pope himself?”
Since he is losing, he thinks he has the right to tell allies of Clinton what to do.
The DNC wasn’t good enough for Bernie for all his life…until he needed the Democratic machine for his presidential campaign. He wouldn’t live in the DNC house all his life, and now that he’s been granted membership he wants to bern the place down.
This all day. I don’t understand what it is that people think will make his most entrenched and delusional supporters happy. There is literally nothing that will make them happy short of throwing out the entire primary election and giving him the nomination, as evidenced by #dropouthillary.
When the Powerball lottery hit $1.6B, I bought a ticket. Unfortunately, I lost, but according to the Bernie campaign, I am still entitled to part of the prize. Now I don’t have to worry about being able to pay my bills next month. Thanks, Bernie!
Here’s my wish for Monday Morning at TPM.
“Hillary Clinton and President Obama to appear together in the Rose Garden at 1 PM EDT for a special press conference”
Not a good look for you, Bernie.
What’s your end game, anyway? The effect of all your intransigent whining is that you’re squandering what influence you might have had. Is this really how you want to go out?