“Bernie Sanders” on The Daily Caller

On Monday, President Obama made a statement claiming that a structure for an agreement was made with the GOP to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans for at least another two years. Unemployment benefits and other such goodies were to be exchanged for doing so. Nevertheless, I was more than stunned to see this president agree to such terms. I knew that the left would be irate and it turns out they are. (more)

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent and self-described “socialist,” told reporters hours after Vice President Joe Biden pitched Democrats on President Obama’s plan to extend the Bush-era tax rates that he will do anything possible to defeat it, including a one-man filibuster. (more)

The Democrats are in trouble in the United States Senate come November. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits. (more)

“The Power to tax involves the power to destroy.” — Chief Justice John Marshall (more)

The Senate blocked a vote on a bill Tuesday that would have punished companies for replacing American workers with foreign employees, a move Republicans called a “stunt” and a last ditch effort by Democrats to appear focused on jobs before the November midterm elections. (more)

BURLINGTON, Vt. — It’s hard to find anyone here who believes that Joyce Irvine should have been removed as principal of Wheeler Elementary School. (more)

“That’s just name-calling,” she objected.  We were discussing the President’s competencies (and lack thereof) and I’d commented that we should hardly expect leadership from a Socialist law professor with little or no leadership experience. (more)

Building anti-incumbent sentiment has fueled a slew of populist measures in the Senate this week. (more)

Libertarian Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” movement has gained the support of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). At the same time, anarchists in Greece riot against fiscal austerity measures, while organs of the strongest government on the planet—namely, the U.S. Justice Department and SEC—accuse Goldman Sachs of skullduggery. (more)

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will cosponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) amendment to audit the Fed, he said on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, though with modifications, the details of which are crucial to the weight of the audit. (more)

An unlikely alliance of liberals and conservatives led by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and firebrand conservative Sen. Jim DeMint is gaining ground in an effort to audit the Federal Reserve, despite objections by the White House and bank lobbyists. (more)

Four congressmen have now moved a bill to repeal the North American Free Trade Act. Superficially, this means little, as passage of this bill is unlikely in the near future. But more fundamentally, it means a lot, because, unbeknownst to most Americans inside and outside the Washington Beltway, free trade is inexorably losing its base of support on Capitol Hill. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised two Democratic senators this week a Senate vote on the public option “in the coming months.” (more)

President Obama wants a health care bill now.  And this time, he swears it will be corruption-free. (more)

On The Colbert Report, Sanders jokingly compared Bernanke and Ben & Jerry.  Take a guess at who Bernie thought better served the American public: (more)

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is comparing climate change skeptics to those who disregarded the Nazi threat in America in the 1930s, adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over climate change. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada postponed a vote on Ben Bernanke’s reconfirmation as chairman of the Federal Reserve originally planned for Friday as both Republican and Democratic lawmakers issued statements of concern about his role in the financial crisis. (more)