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The Real Republican Agenda Americans who want to raise the minimum wage, protect the environment, expand health care, rebuild our infrastructure, make college affordable, address wealth and income inequality and regulate campaign finances “have just voted for some folks whose agenda is very different,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday in interviews on CNN, National Public Radio’s “Hear & Now,” The Bill Press Show, The Thom Hartmann Program and The Huffington Post. "On most of the issues Americans feel most strongly about – expanding Social Security, not cutting it, protecting Medicare, creating jobs, pay equity, addressing the crisis of global warming – I fear very much that the Republicans are going to move in exactly the wrong direction," Sanders said on WPTZ-TV.
Issues Were Buried The most important political discussion of the 2014 campaign season was not a candidate debate. And it certainly was not found in the fearsome ad wars. It was an appearance a few nights before the election by Sen. Sanders on public television's "Moyers & Company," John Nichols wrote for The (Madison, Wisconsin) Capitol Times. Sanders said there was little discussion during the campaign about issues that matter to ordinary Americans because it is not in the interest of the corporations that own the major television networks to actually educate the public.
Leader Reid Senate Democrats lost their majority on Harry Reid’s watch, but they’re closing ranks around him anyway. “I am sympathetic to Harry’s politics. I think Harry is a progressive. For his entire political life, he has stood for working people,” Sen. Sanders told Politico. “Running a caucus is a very difficult process because you have to accommodate people like Joe Manchin who have conservative views … Harry has done a good job in maintaining unity.”
Senate Democrats Sens. Sanders and Elizabeth Warren stand up for bread-and-butter interests "not because it’ll garner them a few more votes, but because they legitimately believe in those things," Farron Cousins blogged for Ring of Fire. "The Democratic Party could learn something from those two."
