The Bern Identity
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Hoisted on their own petard.
Jesse Watters Finds Out Just How Clueless Bernie Sanders Supporters Are
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/02/0...st-how-clueless-bernie-sanders-supporters-are
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/02/0...st-how-clueless-bernie-sanders-supporters-are
Contrary to the point of Krauthammer's quote... its not surprising at all. Krauthammer and Will and Kristol and Fox News and all these conservative commentators have been the spear tip of a disinformation campaign for the establishment republicans owned by the cronies connected to the Banks or the FED Reserve.
I am sure he did realize at first he was playing for the wrong team. But, it should have become apparent to him in the last 8 years.
It would pretty cool if Krauthammer came out with a mea culpa. I would like to know if he thinks he has been duped or he has just been a paid pawn/court jester in a rigged game of chess.
In a way, I am pissed at these guys. They wrote great stuff about conservatism for many years. But they should have seen what was happening to all the fake conservatives we were electing and they should have stopped it.
Instead it seems, they just keep writing good stuff. Helping us think that if the Republicans got control, things would improve.
If they really were conservatives... they would be outraged... they would be blowing a gasket a few times a year on the air or in their columns about what the establishment leaders are doing.
I am sure he did realize at first he was playing for the wrong team. But, it should have become apparent to him in the last 8 years.
It would pretty cool if Krauthammer came out with a mea culpa. I would like to know if he thinks he has been duped or he has just been a paid pawn/court jester in a rigged game of chess.
In a way, I am pissed at these guys. They wrote great stuff about conservatism for many years. But they should have seen what was happening to all the fake conservatives we were electing and they should have stopped it.
Instead it seems, they just keep writing good stuff. Helping us think that if the Republicans got control, things would improve.
If they really were conservatives... they would be outraged... they would be blowing a gasket a few times a year on the air or in their columns about what the establishment leaders are doing.
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$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented
"(CNN)Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.
In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
The analysis was made at a time when Hillary Clinton has been under scrutiny for her ties to Wall Street, which has been a major focus of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail.
"What being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter, having a super PAC that raised $15 million from Wall Street, that throughout one's life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests," Sanders said at Thursday's Democratic debate hosted by MSNBC.
The former secretary of state testily responded to Sanders' charges.
"Time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth which really comes down to, you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought. And I just absolutely reject that, senator, and I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. And enough is enough," Clinton said.
She then challenged him: "If you've got something to say, say it directly, but you will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation I ever received."
The Clinton campaign has been noncommittal about releasing transcripts of the paid speeches and Clinton has told reporters that she will "look into" making her remarks public..."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/index.html
"(CNN)Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.
In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
The analysis was made at a time when Hillary Clinton has been under scrutiny for her ties to Wall Street, which has been a major focus of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail.
"What being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter, having a super PAC that raised $15 million from Wall Street, that throughout one's life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests," Sanders said at Thursday's Democratic debate hosted by MSNBC.
The former secretary of state testily responded to Sanders' charges.
"Time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth which really comes down to, you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought. And I just absolutely reject that, senator, and I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. And enough is enough," Clinton said.
She then challenged him: "If you've got something to say, say it directly, but you will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation I ever received."
The Clinton campaign has been noncommittal about releasing transcripts of the paid speeches and Clinton has told reporters that she will "look into" making her remarks public..."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/index.html
Elizabeth Anderson, "Tom Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy"
The 2011-12 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, recorded on February 29, 2012, was presented by Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan.
Critics of every social insurance proposal in the U.S., including recent health care reform, have called them socialist attacks on private property. To be sure, social insurance is a central pillar of social democracy, and social democratic parties originated in a socialist critique of capitalism. Yet the equation of social insurance with socialism is doubly ironic. The first realistic proposal to abolish poverty by means of universal social insurance was Thomas Paine, who explicitly advanced his scheme as a defense of private property against socialist revolutionaries. And the first actual social insurance scheme was introduced by Otto von Bismarck, who advanced it against the German Social Democratic Party, which opposed his plan. This talk will consider how Paine grounded the justification of social insurance in a neo-Lockean theory of private property rights, and explore the implications of the ironic inversion of social insurance from a bulwark of to a perceived assault on capitalism.
The 2011-12 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, recorded on February 29, 2012, was presented by Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan.
Critics of every social insurance proposal in the U.S., including recent health care reform, have called them socialist attacks on private property. To be sure, social insurance is a central pillar of social democracy, and social democratic parties originated in a socialist critique of capitalism. Yet the equation of social insurance with socialism is doubly ironic. The first realistic proposal to abolish poverty by means of universal social insurance was Thomas Paine, who explicitly advanced his scheme as a defense of private property against socialist revolutionaries. And the first actual social insurance scheme was introduced by Otto von Bismarck, who advanced it against the German Social Democratic Party, which opposed his plan. This talk will consider how Paine grounded the justification of social insurance in a neo-Lockean theory of private property rights, and explore the implications of the ironic inversion of social insurance from a bulwark of to a perceived assault on capitalism.
Sanders told the nation at his last debate that we would pay 'little bit more in taxes' to save a 'whole lot on health care'.
"A “little bit more?” Not quite. Sanders plan would require a $2.5 trillion tax increase, as even the leftist American Prospect points out......"-dailywire.com
"Dylan Matthews, of the leftist Vox website, was also disturbed by Sanders’ plan, noting that the Sanders campaign originally claimed it would save $324 billion annually on prescription drugs, until Thorpe pointed out that United States spent only $305 billion for prescription drugs in 2014. Sanders’ people quickly reduced the savings estimate to $241 billion. As Paul Starr, editor of The American Prospect, stated, “As the entire episode indicates, the Sanders campaign is simply pulling numbers out of the air.”"-dailywire.com
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The guy is obama all over again. Just lies has a.. off about his whole health care plan.
And that's the way it always is with socialized health care. A pack of lies.
"A “little bit more?” Not quite. Sanders plan would require a $2.5 trillion tax increase, as even the leftist American Prospect points out......"-dailywire.com
"Dylan Matthews, of the leftist Vox website, was also disturbed by Sanders’ plan, noting that the Sanders campaign originally claimed it would save $324 billion annually on prescription drugs, until Thorpe pointed out that United States spent only $305 billion for prescription drugs in 2014. Sanders’ people quickly reduced the savings estimate to $241 billion. As Paul Starr, editor of The American Prospect, stated, “As the entire episode indicates, the Sanders campaign is simply pulling numbers out of the air.”"-dailywire.com
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The guy is obama all over again. Just lies has a.. off about his whole health care plan.
And that's the way it always is with socialized health care. A pack of lies.