{"id":11460,"date":"2013-10-21T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2013-10-21T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T08:20:21","slug":"bernie-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/bernie-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Part of the Republican cave-in over the economic crisis they caused is that a Budget Conference Committee will meet to try to work out an actual Budget, something they should have done months ago, but House Republican refused to appoint conferees.&#160; The Republicans have their big gun on on the committee, known for his draconian devotion to Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan (R-Fitzwalkerstan).&#160; He will be doing his best to cut Social Security benefits, turn Medicare into a program of vouchers that have ever decreasing value, and hand Medicaid control to the states, so Republican Governors can spend that money on billionaires, instead of poor sick people.&#160; But don\u2019t despair.&#160; Democrats also have a big gun at the table.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"21bernie-sanders\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"21bernie-sanders\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/21bernie-sanders.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Okay, it&#8217;s a fight to the finish. Harry Reid named Bernie Sanders to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/18\/bernie-sanders-conference-committee_n_4125730.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications\" target=\"_blank\">budget conference committee.<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font> What are the odds that Paul Ryan&#8217;s head will explode?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In what can only be seen as good news for people who like traditional earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare, here&#8217;s one name that appears on the list of Senate conferees in the upcoming Paul Ryan-Patty Murray budget talks &#8212; Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders. This ensures that beneficiaries of these programs will, at the very least, have one strong, supportive voice in the room who won&#8217;t go down in a squishy heap of &quot;grand bargaining.&quot; (I&#8217;m sure Paul Ryan is thrilled.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/open-thread-steel-cage-match-bernie-s\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the recent video of Bernie in action included in the article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQNDnow8wBo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the picture above, note how, in one economical gesture, Bernie perfectly describes both Ryan\u2019s intellect and Boehner\u2019s \u2026 never mind.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The best thing about having Bernie on the Conference Committee is that, no matter what vile machinations Lyin&#8217; Ryan tries to pull, we will know about it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bernie to the rescue!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the Republican cave-in over the economic crisis they caused is that a Budget Conference Committee will meet to try to work out an actual Budget, something they should have done months ago, but House Republican refused to appoint conferees.&#160; The Republicans have their big gun on on the committee, known for his draconian <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/bernie-to-the-rescue\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}