Will Bernie Sanders Ever Shut Up?

I give Fake News until Thursday or Friday to stop congratulating Joe for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and start hitting him again for his ‘failed’ Presidency. After all, if a media outlet has spent the last 20 months telling everyone that Joe is no good, why should they change their tune just because this legislation — his fourth big bill in two years — just managed to sneak through?

And this bill, by the way, isn’t much to crow about. It won’t really reduce inflation, the so-called drug-price reduction is a phony mess, the green energy provisions are all bullshit, and the tax break that lower-income people should have been given doesn’t exist.

Who said all this? Who else but Bernie Sanders in a 40-minute speech on the Senate floor before the voting began. Of course, Bern ended up voting for the bill because if he hadn’t, the bill would have failed. In which case I would have started an effort one way or another to get Bernie thrown out of the Democratic Senate caucus which frankly, he doesn’t really belong anyway.

That’s right. I don’t like Bernie. I don’t like him at all. I didn’t like him in 2016 because I thought the campaign he ran against Hillary was nothing other than some warmed-over cuchifritos from the Occupy Wall Street movement and had he been a little less concerned with his own media promotion and a little…