WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, wants the federal government to guarantee a job for every American willing and able to work. The proposal sounds compassionate and enlightened, but in practice, it would almost certainly be a disaster. The fact that it’s taken seriously is evidence that many Democrats, like Republicans before them, embrace loony […]
bernie sanders
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Bernie Sanders should stay on the sidelines
Bernie Sanders is back in the news, showing us all both his good side and the bad. Let’s start with the good. “If Democrats control either the House or the Senate,” he recently told The New York Times, “Trump’s agenda is dead.” Here is Bernie at his best — blunt and colorful, the senator from […]
advertisement
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Democrats may urge Angus King to join their ranks
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, right, accompanied by, from left, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, after Senate policy luncheons. The Democratic National Committee may turn up the heat on two independent U.S. senators who caucus with […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Republicans unveil long-shot effort on health care
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil legislation to reform health care. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators on Wednesday rolled out competing plans for the nation’s health care system, with a group of GOP senators making a last, long-shot effort […]
Posted inMaine
Susan Collins hailed as least partisan senator for 4th straight year
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., left, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who serve together on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, confer March 28, 2017, on Capitol Hill after doing television news interviews, in Washington. In an era of often bitter partisanship, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins stands out as the premier example […]
Posted inMaine
New England has plenty of potential presidents
It’s been a long time since a New Englander won the presidency, but it’s not for lack of trying. Not since John F. Kennedy, a Boston Catholic with a family fortune who came out on top in 1960, has anyone who is undeniably from the region held the nation’s highest office. While both George H.W. […]
Posted inMaine
Bernie Sanders, DNC chair kick off cross-country tour in Maine
In this Nov. 17, 2016, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks at a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders gained roars of approval from a friendly crowd on Monday, April 17, 2017, as he called for a radical transformation of the Democratic Party into a grassroots movement founded on […]
Posted inMaine
Bernie Sanders and Democrats coming to Maine on April 17
A national tour of Trump country by the new Democratic National Committee chairman and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will apparently kick off April 17 in Maine. The weeklong, multi-state tour is intended to begin to mend fences between the party and its grass roots in areas that voted for Republican President Donald Trump last year. The […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Bernie Sanders gets electoral vote in Hawaii thanks to Maine elector
Presidential elector David Bright got shut down in Maine when he tried to vote for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, but his effort may have helped the Vermont progressive snag an electoral vote in Hawaii. David Mulinix, an elector in the Aloha State who wore a lei made of green jade flowers, apparently watched Maine’s Electoral […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Gov. Paul LePage ’embarrassed’ by bid to vote for Bernie Sanders
LePage said he felt “very, very embarrassed” Monday watching Bright in the House chambers in Augusta as the organic farmer from Dixmont sought to dodge a state law requiring that he cast his ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide vote last month. Bright, one of the state’s four electors, said he thought […]