Posted on 06/26/2017 2:08:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sen. Bernie Sanders took the stage and got right to it, warning 2,200-odd Ohioans that their lives are at risk if Senate Republicans push through their health-care bill.
“Put yourself into someone else’s shoes,” Sanders said Sunday at Columbus’s ExpressLive concert hall. "What does it mean today if you are struggling for your life, dealing with cancer, dealing with heart disease, dealing with diabetes, dealing with some chronic illness threatening your existence? What does it mean when you read in the paper that Republicans might take away your insurance?”
A voice in the audience shouted out the answer: “You die!”
“I say this not to be overly dramatic,” Sanders said. “If you take away health care from 23 million people, what will happen? People will die, by the thousands!”
Sanders, who wants Democrats to delay any vote on the bill past the July 4 recess — allowing more time for voter information, and more protests — is the one member of the Democratic caucus capable of pulling together big crowds in a hurry.
“You have to do your best to tell the truth, but at the same time you have to make it clear that violence of any kind is unacceptable,” Sanders said in an interview at a dinner stop. “It’s not me who’s saying people are dying. They will. That’s just a fact. You have Harvard University making that statement. And it’s common sense — of course people are going to die. It doesn’t give me any pleasure to say that Trump is a pathological liar. It’s just the truth. I’ve never called any other politicians pathological liars.”
That tone, shared increasingly by Democrats, comes after a run of special elections that the party failed to turn into referendums on the GOP health-care bills.
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Make Sanders and the rest of them have obamacare.
Bernie’s wife is under criminal investigation wonder why he isn’t mentioning that! Single Payer failed in California wanna know why..because like everything that has to do with Socialism, they always run out of other people’s money
Crooked Bernie
Funny how the Sanders hate rich people yet they broke the law so they could BECOME RICH
Where was this jackass when Obamacare was foisted off on the nation?
No one ever heard of him before the campaign and now he’s headlining every single day. He found a love for the camera but seriously needs to go back to obscurity.
Diversion from FBI investigation.....err matter.
Diversion from FBI investigation.....err matter.
Now all he knows for work is government work, which doesn't count. It just doesn't count. Children could do that.
Spending other people'e money is actually fun.
The arm-waving imbecile will be living out of a shopping cart within 5 years.
Great job getting rid of the Ugly, Fat Criminal Cow for us, though. Kudos.
You can go away now.
Not surprised by this at all. He’d do anything at this point to get out of the house and away from his yapping yenta.
Hey Bernie.....come up with some reasonable solutions to the health care mess. The public will demand that real solutions be included in any legislation.
His time would be better spent preparing his defense...
I’ll bet he smells like mothballs......
Hit the road, indeed.
Well, that's a change. Normally BS is putting himself in somebody else's wallet. Maybe wifey pawned his shoes to pay her lawyer's retainer.
It's been a tough for me, the last 5 days and I am both tired and sleepy, for reasons unrelated to politics and insane judges and polititians.
Remind us, dear Sarah, how did Sanders and his missus break the law to become rich?
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