![\"watch\"](\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/ImagesSite\/bullets\/icon-watch.gif\"\/){kind=icon}
Sanders Filibuster: Part 1<\/a><\/p>\nDecember 10, 2010<\/p>\n Bernie Sanders has been filibustering in the Senate from about 10:30 this morning.<\/p>\n I am watching the proceedings right now, 5:30 PM EST on C-SPAN2.\u00a0 You can see the Sanders’ filibuster live on the web<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n He is reading constituent letters describing how hard people are working to heat their homes, feed their children, educate them for the future, and prepare for their own retirement.\u00a0 The struggle that many of them describe\u00a0 is heartbreaking.\u00a0 Yet he is filibustering against tax breaks for wealthy bankers who were bailed out by these very tax payers who are struggling.<\/p>\n If you are thinking of giving President Obama a pass on the capitulation to the Republicans, I urge you to watch the filibuster.<\/p>\n If you live in Massachusetts, contact Senator Scott Brown<\/strong><\/a> and John Kerry<\/strong><\/a> to beg them to help Senator Sanders in his filibuster. At 6:53PM, I called Senator Kerry at (202) 224-2742 to urge him to get to the Senate floor to help Senator Sanders in his filibuster.<\/p>\n At 6:37 PM EST, Bernie Sanders is begging the electorate to call and write your Senators and Representatives to convince them to change their mind and work for a better bill than what the President has agreed to. He knows that he cannot do this by himself.<\/p>\n At 7:00PM EST, Senator Sanders ended his filibuster and a quorum call is being done. I only wish that he had called on other Senators to carry on his filibuster. I tried calling him, (202) 224-5141, with that suggestion, but his phone was busy. <\/p>\n Sanders Filibuster: Part 2<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Sanders Filibuster: Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
\n
\n