October 03, 2015, 08:17 pm

Sanders: GOP blames Obama for all their problems

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) on Saturday poked fun at Republicans for blaming all their problems on President Obama, suggesting they suffer from “amnesia” over George W. Bush’s presidency.

"In their world, every problem that you can possibly imagine is caused by Barack Obama,” Sanders quipped at a campaign rally in Boston. "If there is rain, if it’s too hot, if there’s a mosquito in the room, it is all Barack Obama.”

"But we really can’t gloat, because they suffer from a very serious amnesia problem,” Sanders continued. "A serious illness that seems to afflict Republican presidential candidates. They can’t help it, but they just cannot remember the way things were seven years ago."

Sanders reserved his most vicious comments for Republicans, sparing Hillary Clinton, his chief rival in the Democratic presidential primaries.

Watching the GOP’s presidential debate was a “really painful experience,” he said.

"Some of you may have had the misfortune of watching the Republican debate a few weeks ago,” Sanders said. "I promised I would do some tweeting, and I watched it hour after hour and, the energy dissipated my body. It was a really painful experience."

Sanders later turned his comments to income inequality, suggesting the economy is rigged: “Heads they win, tails you lose."

He accused Republicans of trying to turn voters away from the polls.

"Here’s the way politics works,” Sanders explained. "When nobody votes, Republicans win. When large numbers of people come out, when people demand that the United States government start representing all of us and not just a handful of billionaires, when that happens, we win."

"That is what this campaign is about. It is reaching out to our friends and our neighbors. Reaching out to working class Republicans who continue to vote against their own best interest. Bringing people together,” he added.

“When we do that, when we significantly increase the voter turnout, it ain’t going to be a contest, we’re going to win hands down."

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James Bond actor Daniel Craig is "feeling the Bern,"

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James Bond actor Daniel Craig is "feeling the Bern," donating thousands in support of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.

James Bond donates thousands to Sanders PAC

The PAC was formerly called “Ready for Bernie Sanders 2016” and “Bet on Bernie 2016.”

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May 24, 2015, 12:08 pm

Sanders worries of ‘political gossip’ dominating campaign coverage

By Devin Henry

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that the media is “doing pretty well” covering his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination against frontrunner Hillary Clinton, but he’s worried about “political gossip” taking over as the campaign moves on.

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Warren to Obama: Stop making 'untrue' trade claims

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By Peter Schroeder - 04/25/15 01:16 PM EDT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told President Obama on Saturday he was making “untrue” claims about his opponents — including herself.

The feud between Obama and the left continued Saturday, when Warren and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) called on the president to immediately declassify the negotiating terms of a pending trade deal with a host of nations known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

In an effort to push through trade legislation that would help finalize the deal, Obama has blasted critics on the left, saying they are “wrong” and “don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Liberal critics of the trade deal have griped that the terms have not been made public, arguing it amounts to a secret deal hammered out by other nations with influence from huge corporations.

Obama equated that argument to the “death panels” floated during the ObamaCare debate, as a claim so far-fetched as not to be taken seriously, adding that members of Congress have been frequently briefed on the talks.

“Someone coming up with a slogan like ‘death panels’ doesn’t mean it’s true,” he said Thursday. “The same thing is true on this. Look at the facts, don’t just throw a bunch of stuff out there.”

In response to those claims, Warren and Brown told Obama to release the text of the negotiations to the public. While members of Congress can review documents, it is illegal to release them to the public or discuss specifics.

And if, as Obama says, the trade deal is his best effort to carve out good terms for the working class, they argued there is no reason not to let the public review it before it is finalized.

“The American people should be allowed to see for themselves whether it’s a good deal for them,” they wrote.

“Characterizing the assessments of labor unions, journalists, members of Congress and others who disagree with your approach to transparency on trade issues as ‘dishonest’ is both untrue and unlikely to serve the best interests of the American people,” they added.

The two went on to argue the administration has handed an outsized amount of influence to corporations in hammering out the deal. They said the 28 trade advisory committees on the TPP have 566 members, and 480 of them are “senior corporate executives or industry lobbyists.”

"Fast-track" legislation that would limit Congress's ability to amend trade deals is currently pending before both chambers of Congress, with healthy backing from congressional Republicans. But Warren and Brown also criticized the legislation for going beyond the current trade deal, handing expanded power to future administrations by limiting congressional input as far forward as 2021.

"No one knows who will be using this authority once you leave office," they said.

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