The Bernie Sanders Filibuster: The Way It SHOULD Be Done

   I said before that there was no stronger voice for progressives in the House than Anthony Weiner. There is one in the Senate, though. Bernie Sanders has always been more progressive than almost anyone on the hill. But this one time, this one "filibuster", done old-school, the way it should be, should be a moment in time that's taught in every history class, but one that, sadly, is mostly forgotten.

   If you ever need to see "speaking truth to power" (or, as it was so well paraphrased by Aaron Sorkin through his McKenzie character in The Newsroom, "speaking truth to stupid") here's your guy.

  Here's the full text of Bernie Sanders' seven and a half hour speech on the bailouts and the stimulus from 2010.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=e35eddb4-0d83-4c55-92c0-e448c55526f

   Thirty years from now, if you look around and the country is going to shit even faster, you can look back at this speech  and know that you were warned.

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