Sen. Bernie Sanders Filibuster Highlights LONG Version HQ

Weekend at Bernie's. Sen .Bernie Sanders Filibustering Obama-GOP Tax Deal
At 10:24 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 10, Sen. Sanders took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to lay out a clear argument against extending tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, against codifying a low inheritance tax rate which would impact only the richest 0.3 percent of households, and against a payroll tax "holiday" which would undercut funding for the Social Security trust fund. Without a break, the senator remained standing and on the Senate floor for 8 hours, 35 mins., and 14 secs.

Here are some of the highlights to this historic filibuster, including Bernie admonishing Obama for extending the tax cuts for the wealthy, defending social security, China, the sickness of greed, and the collapse of the middle class.

Download the 124 page Word document
http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Sanders20101210transcript.doc

Watch Sen. Sanders' Filibuster in Its Entirety (CSPAN)
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/SandersF

CSPAN
http://c-span.org

Sen. Sanders
http://sanders.senate.gov/

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[ShadowOfTheAssylum]

For 8 hours!? It's about time someone did the fucking filibuster correctly.

[PaulYorkandBabyVegan]

This guy should be President, not that sell-out Obama, who is George W. Bush reincarnated, at least in terms of his policies (clearly Obama is a better public speaker).

[sirloin869]

i can see gop wanting to assassinate competent politicians that don't belong to them - the eternal struggle between the intellectual vs, the armed and dumb, just can't see why occupy is so useless: that shit didn't work in viet nam - that is kind of funny...

still waiting on the zombie apokolypse

[bootaraka2]

@PaulYorkandBabyVegan fuck you..obama is the shit

[LazyGirlSuperHero]

I'm so glad Bernie Sanders is in office. He's like a lone wolf attempting to secure basic living necessities for the American people.

[yankee2yankee]

We need an "anti-NAFTA" bill, which, instead of encouraging industry to move its manufacturing abroad, will FORCE companies which want access to the American market, to manufacture their products here, in the US, using American labor.

The alternative, if we DON'T act, will be that WE, YOU and I, will eventually have to work for $1.35/hr sometime in the future, a future which may rapidly become NOW.

If we don't act, pretty soon half of us will be living in tenements, and half of us in TENTS.

[kshariqm]

great speaker