WaPo: On the 2008 bailout, Biden is right and Sanders is wrong

[thesquanderer]

22. Quite a few other Senators voted the same way Sanders did...

...including one of my favorites, Russ Feingold.

But as I basically said elsewhere in the thread, of course "there's always an excuse" as you put it, because bills are complicated:

Most votes of significance are a balance of good and bad, and you have to decide which is the better vote on balance. Sometimes he voted for something that included a lot of stuff he railed against and unsuccessfully tried to get changed, like the 1994 crime bill or the Affordable Care Act. Other times he voted against something even though it included something he really wanted... like in this case, he had already voted for an auto bailout which this bill also included and he really wanted, but on balance, he thought this bill had more downside than upside. This is what EVERY member of congress does.

There was no way a bailout bill of some sort was not going to happen. If this one had failed, they would have gone back to the drawing board to try to craft something that would pass. That's what Sanders would have been hoping for. But it did pass, so that was the end of it.