We must reject the barbaric Republican bullying of the needy in our name.

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Bernie Sanders Slams Gutless Republican Bullies For Beating Up On Helpless People
By Jason Easley, September 23, 2013

On MSNBC, Sen. Bernie Sanders unloaded on the House Republicans who voted to take food away from millions of Americans. Sanders said that Republicans are arrogant gutless bullies who are beating up on helpless people.

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On Martin Bashir’s MSNBC program, Sen. Sanders called out Republicans for beating up on the needy.

Sen. Sanders said,

Here’s where they come from. They are funded in a significant way by billionaires like the Koch brothers, who want more tax breaks for the rich and for corporate America. Now, these guys don’t have the guts to stand up to big money, so what they try to do is take out people’s anger against low and moderate income people. We’ve been hearing that line since Ronald Reagan, so called welfare queens. But the bottom line is right now, poverty today at forty six and a half million is higher than it has ever been. Middle class is disappearing. People are working longer hours for lower wages.

Many people in America who walk into food shelters have jobs. Maybe, they have two jobs. But they’re getting paid eight or nine bucks an hour, can’t feed their families. At the end of the day what you are talking about is incredible cruelty and arrogance for a party representing the wealthy and the powerful to punish poor and working people. That is immoral, and by the way if we get this sequestration budget passed for another year, it will mean the loss of 900,000 jobs in America. These are bullies who are beating up on helpless people in many cases, and representing the rich and powerful. They don’t impress me.

Sen. Sanders went there, and yes, he was questioning the manhood of the Republican Party. It doesn’t take much of a man or woman to vote to take food away from people who really need it the most. The really sick part of this is that House Republicans are proud of themselves for taking away food aid to 170,000 veterans, school lunches from 210,000 needy children, and making it more difficult for millions of Americans to eat.

It takes real courage to stand up to a billionaire and tell them no. It takes absolutely no courage to starve children, while championing another tax cut for the wealthy. Republicans are gutless. Much like John Boehner, when the extremists start to rumble, they all cave and fall in line. The arrogance behind the idea that they are fit to judge who is worthy of food and who isn’t is astounding.

The Republicans who voted for this bill aren’t leaders. They are the most dangerous kind of followers. House Republicans are filled with arrogance, entitlement, hate, and contempt. They lack the courage to do what is right, so they perpetually return to what is easy. (42 votes and counting to defund Obamacare).

It is time that the Republican bullies were called out. It’s also time for the rest of America to reject the barbaric Republican bullying of the needy in our name.
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