revealingproserpina: majorgenerally:ellidfics:the trashing of Cory Booker on the Left has alread
revealingproserpina: majorgenerally: ellidfics: the trashing of Cory Booker on the Left has already begun, likely to destroy him for not being ideologically pure enough so he’ll be unelectable in 2020. I really hate the Left sometimes. At a rally to support the ACA, Bernie supporters drew attention from the very important task of keeping people insured to boo Cory Booker. Fuck ideological purity. If we lose Obamacare, people will die. Cory Booker did what he thought was best. I support him and I still love my senator. This makes me furious and more sick of the hardcore Bernie bros than I already was. Now is quite literally the worst time EVER for any Democratic, liberal, or any decent person to pulling this kind of nonsense. Not saying the Cory Booker is a saint but his reasons behind voting the way he did make sense. [First screenshot: a tweet from Sally Albright (twitter user @SallyAlbright) that reads: “So Bernie deliberately introduced an amendment (non-binding) that Cory Booker couldn’t vote for just so he could bad mouth him #politics”Second screenshot: a Facebook post from Kris Benjamin Randolph, dated from Washington, reading as follows“This is disheartening, it was not Sanders supporters that wanted the takedown of Corey [sic] Booker specifically and 12 other Democrats — it was from Sanders himself.And what he is doing categorizing them as beholden to Drug Companies in the media, on his website and with his supporter [sic] is fraud. They didn’t support his (non-binding by the way) amendment which undermine [sic] a great part of the ACA.The truth is they supported another amendment with the same aim that had less strings attached.These same 13 Democrats supported the Wyden amendment which also proposes drug competition from Canada.This happens all the time, one amendment works and the other does not. The bill isn’t final[;] anyone of these could go through.At a time Democrats were fighting the appointees Sanders was fighting Democrats. He by the way –hasn’t come out against any appointee.We cannot do this for four years. I am calling on Sanders supporters to say this is not acceptable.”] -- source link
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