Bernie Sanders is Filibustering, Hold on to your seats...

[Anonymous]

http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx

How long will he go?

[jsteele]

What is he filibustering? There is no legislation on the floor is there?

[Anonymous]

I thought republicans were going to be filibustering the DREAM Act today... no idea what this could be about.

[Anonymous]

Just looked it up. Filibustering HR 4853 extending the tax cuts...

[Anonymous]

Go Bernie! Go Bernie! Go Bernie!

[Anonymous]

Its very instructive for regular Americans to see a member of the socialist party so true blue to democrat priorities.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:What is he filibustering? There is no legislation on the floor is there?

Technically, he'd have to go until Monday when the vote is scheduled. And Landrieu has the floor so, it's really colloquy?

[Anonymous]

And Bernie's an Independent--but. I love him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go Bernie! Go Bernie! Go Bernie!

Almost 7:00PM, still going....

[Anonymous]

From Roll Call (http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201384-1.html):

"Even a late afternoon news conference by President Bill Clinton did little to shake the public’s fascination with the 69-year-old lawmaker’s talkathon — according to Twitter, while Clinton ranked No. 6 in its trending topics, Sanders was the No.1 one topic in the world, while the filibuster hashtag was ranked No. 3.

According to Sanders’ office, online viewers temporarily shut down the Senate’s servers Friday because of the speech.

Sanders began his talkathon Friday at 10:25 a.m., and aides said he planned to remain on the floor as long as he could.

Sanders said his reason for giving the lengthy speech was simple — to “take a strong stand against this bill, and I intend to tell my colleagues and the nation exactly why I am in opposition to this bill.”

“You can call what I am doing today whatever you want, you can call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech. I’m not here to set any great records or to make a spectacle. I am simply here today to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that we have got to do a lot better than this agreement provides,” he added.

But while Sanders may not have intended to create a spectacle, the sight of the white-haired liberal conducting a Mr. Smith-style filibuster was clearly catching the public’s attention."


Go Bernie, Go!