And people think the Senate’s dull…..ish.

The night of the Senate Bailout vote, Bernie Sanders took the floor - kind of reminiscent of the preacher in Pollyanna with his doom, doom, doom denunication. Apparently, Sanders isn’t a big fan of helping the rich and hurting the middle class, which is how he saw the bailout.

Anyway, as reported by The Progressive:

“In the midst of all of this, we have a bailout package which says to the middle class that you are being asked to place at risk $700 billion, which is $2,200 for every man, woman, and child in this country. You’re being asked to do that in order to undo the damage caused by this excessive Wall Street greed. In other words, the "Masters of the Universe," those brilliant Wall Street insiders who have made more money than the average American can even dream of, have brought our financial system to the brink of collapse. Now, as the American and world financial systems teeter on the edge of a meltdown, these multimillionaires are demanding that the middle class, which has already suffered under Bush’s disastrous economic policies, pick up the pieces that they broke. That is wrong, and that is something that I will not support.”

It just so happened that soon after Sanders concluded Sen. Nelson visited with Suzanne Scott, who was in DC with her husband, Walter Scott, often referred to as the 2nd richest man in Omaha (former Peter Kiewit CEO). He’s also a boyhood friend of The Oracle of Omaha.

Suzanne Scott had heard Sanders’ speech and it horrified her, she told Nelson.

Soon the fun-loving Nelson was on the Senate floor and went up to Leader Reid.

Nelson told Reid he wasn’t sure what impact Sanders’ fire and brimstone had had on the debate—(the Dem caucus all love Sanders even if they disagree with him–) but he had scared to death the wife of the second richest man in Omaha!

(Nelson did a nice imitation of Reid, shoulders hunched, head down, chuckling.)

Nelson moved on and told the story to another Dem. colleague, prompting a bigger laugh.

The, he searched out Sanders. He teased him, saying his speech was a big success. He had scared the wife of the second richest man in Omaha to death.

Sanders loved it!"