Blame Bernie: The follow-up

Following up on the previous post, which argues that Bernie deliberately empowered Cassidy-Graham by refusing to wait until October to push for his pie-in-the-sky single-payer proposal: I invite you to check out this DU thread. The truth is starting to dawn on others, although the originator of that thread was a ninny:

Bernie and Amy Klouchbar better make Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham look stupid in their upcoming health care debate. The stakes can not be higher. Failure is not an option They must crush them and their utter defeat needs to be apparent to most Americans, not just to the members of this board.

One response:

They should not even mention single payer.

The subject of the debate is the G-C bill. If Bernie mentions single payer, Graham will respond with his 'Bernie is a socialist and single payer is a Commie plan and an attack on our democracy' bit. And Graham wins because the debate will become about something having nothing to do with the terrible content of the G-C bill.

Before we can even address single payer, the G-C bill, the subject of the debate, must be defeated.

My fear is that Bernie, not a details guy, won't let go of his agenda and instead focus his comments on killing the bill.

Oh, he will definitely refuse to let go of his agenda.

That's his purpose. He's working for Trump. Maybe Bernie knows it and maybe he doesn't -- but either way, he's working for Trump.

Bernie will demonstrate who-owns-whom when he mounts a "noble" fight for single payer which will have the precise opposite of the intended effect.

Why couldn't he have waited until October to announce his sure-to-lose legislation? He just had to do it now, in September. He choose to do it this month because the threat of "socialized medicine" impels Republicans to support a hastily-drafted Obamacare-killer. If Bernie had kept his goddamned mouth shut until October, Cassidy and Graham probably would not have rolled out their bad bill -- and even if they had, the engine would have had less fuel.

(As a reminder: Until September 30, the Republicans can pass a bill with a simple 50-vote majority. After that date, they will need 60 votes.)

Comedian Jen Kirkman, whom we have mentioned before, understands what is going on:

Now that the woman is safely nowhere near the White House - it seems as though the media is finally vetting Sanders.

They’re slowly starting to say his insistence on Medicare for all instead of defending current ACA gives R’s what they want.

Also:

Be honest. Do you think Tad Devine will come to my comedy show in DC this Sunday??

Also:

.@maddow @Lawrence @AriMelber I feel you 3 are most likely to do so....so why no pontificate-y deep dives on Tad Devine’s ties to Manafort?

Well, you haven't heard it from Maddow -- but you have heard it from me, here and here and elsewhere. The image at the top of this page may puzzle some of you: It refers to the fact that Tad Devine worked for a filthy Ukrainian politician named Viktor Yanukovych (backed by Putin) who used poison to take out a rival. The toxin did not kill, but it sure as hell did a number on the poor guy's face.

Taddikins worked for Yanukovich after the poisoning incident shocked the world.

At the time Bernie hired Devine, the Yanukovich account was THE number one item on Tad's resume. There is no way Bernie can plead ignorance. There is no way Bernie could not have known just how dirty Tad Devine was and is. 

It's high time Rachel Maddow or one of the other MSNBC-ers talked about that.

And yet the motherfucking hypocritical BernieBots lambasted Hillary for delivering some boilerplate speeches to Goldman Sachs -- and then giving the proceeds to charity!