About three hours ago, just as he took the Senate floor, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) staff, tweeted: “You can call what i am doing today whatever you want, you it [sic] call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech…” And he’s been speaking, almost uninterrupted, ever since…. Sanders has been decrying the Obama tax cut plan for bailing out the wealthiest people in America. “How can I get by on one house?” Sanders railed, sarcastically. “I need five houses, ten houses. I need three jet planes to take me all over the world! Sorry, American people. We’ve got the money, we’ve got the power.”
As a result of his efforts, he’s shot up to near the top Twitter trending topic chart.
He started at 7:30am (Pacific) and I’ve been listening/watching for the last 4 hours.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx
If his efforts are important to you, please share your thoughts with the fine senators from Oregon and perhaps with Bernie himself.
Ron Wyden – (202) 224-5244
http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Jeff Merkley – (202) 224-3753
http://merkley.senate.gov/contact/
Bernie Sanders:
http://sanders.senate.gov/contact/contact.…
Wyden’s office is flooded. I couldn’t get through on two separate attempts that left me on hold for a long time and then sent me to a busy signal.
Merkley’s staffer said he’d pass it along (which means he adds a tick-mark to the tally of people calling about it…the more the merrier!).
Yeah People! Now if we can just get Justin Beeber on the bandwagon…
This is the face of American socialism: it’s a kindly, old man from Vermont.
Thank gawd, Obama made sure that only trillionaires and not billionaires are being “hurt” by a fictional 4.6% income tax increase! Shhhhit!
HA! He just yielded the floor and everyone was like, “OH SHIT I THINK HE STOPPED TALKING!” Kinda funny to watch them scramble
I love when things happen in life that remind me of The West Wing. GO STACKHOUSE!