| After Senator Franken was certified, a lot of people cheered "60" and a lot of other people worried the caucus wouldn't hold. Bernie Sanders has a solution. A good, working, solution. He gave an interview to HuffPost where he said: "I think that with Al Franken coming on board, you have effectively 60 Democrats in the caucus, 58 and two Independents. I think the strategy should be to say, it doesn't take 60 votes to pass a piece of legislation. It takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster. I think the strategy should be that every Democrat, no matter whether or not they ultimately end up voting for the final bill, is to say we are going to vote together to stop a Republican filibuster. And if somebody who votes for that ends up saying, 'I'm not gonna vote for this bill, it's too radical, blah, blah, blah, that's fine.'"
How simple, how elegant. This gives the opportunity to those Democratic tools of corporate America Senators who would never vote for a certain piece of Democratic legislation to still stand with the majority of Americans their party. In other Bernie Sanders news, he has placed a "We Need Single Payer" petition on his website. You can view information on his Single Payer bill, and why Single Payer is the best option here. |
