Sanders Outlines Plan To Sink Obama Tax Compromise

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is making the loudest filibuster threats in the Senate right now, vowing to do all he can to block President Obama’s tax cut compromise.

Here’s how: “Find a handful of Republicans who are willing to vote no on this agreement and then come back and come up with a proposal that is much stronger and much fairer,” he told reporters today.

“What I’m saying as a progressive should appeal to conservatives all over this country,” Sanders added. “I think we have a winnable fight here. I think the American people are with us and I intend to do everything that I can to defeat this proposal.”

No doubt a few Republicans will break from the GOP, but it will take a full 41 members to guarantee that the plan goes down. So far, Sanders won’t say if he has any allies on the right.

“I’m not into naming names,” he said, “but let me tell you something: Obviously I come from a more progressive state than most. But I will be willing to bet — and you ask them — dollars to donuts, that in R states all over this country there are people saying, ‘Wait a second, it is insane to give tax breaks to billionaires when the rich have done phenomenally well in recent years.'”

Latest DC
Comments
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Associate Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: