If Bernie Sanders is “left-leaning,” what does it take to be “liberal”?
New York Times writer Edmund L. Andrews referred to Sanders as a “left-leaning independent” in his article “ Under Attack, Fed Chief Studies Politics .”
Jim DeMint was labeled as a “conservative Republican.”
Sanders, as noted by Democracy Now, is the first self-described socialist to be elected to Senate. Sanders continues to call himself a socialist .
Of course, this is coming from the same newspaper that used conservative reaction against Dede Scozzafava as an example of Republicans ”torching the big tent” , while threatening moderation and centrism. Perhaps if they had just nominated a socialist…
Here are the relevant passages from the New York Times article:
New York Times writer Edmund L. Andrews referred to Sanders as a “left-leaning independent” in his article “ Under Attack, Fed Chief Studies Politics .”
Jim DeMint was labeled as a “conservative Republican.”
Sanders, as noted by Democracy Now, is the first self-described socialist to be elected to Senate. Sanders continues to call himself a socialist .
Of course, this is coming from the same newspaper that used conservative reaction against Dede Scozzafava as an example of Republicans ”torching the big tent” , while threatening moderation and centrism. Perhaps if they had just nominated a socialist…
Here are the relevant passages from the New York Times article:
Senator Jim DeMint, a conservative Republican from South Carolina, denounced the Fed on the Senate floor in July as an “unelected central bank” that enjoyed a “monopoly over the flow of our money” and operated in “almost complete secrecy.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, a left-leaning independent from Vermont who sponsored a Senate version of Mr. Paul’s bill, attacked the Fed for being beholden mainly to Wall Street.
