One of the many excellent lines in the video of Bernie Sanders's response to the Republican budget, which passed yesterday: In light of the fact that since the economic crash of 2008, 99 percent of all new income has been going to 1 percent of the population, what do the Republicans do? Create a budget that answers this question: How can we make the 1 percent even richer.

True, the Republican budget involves more political maneuvering than realism, as in its present state, it would mean a direct confrontation with the president. Nevertheless, it provides Bernie Sanders with the opportunity to make a very clear case to a huge audience. He has the media's attention at this moment, as the most interesting entry to the presidential race to date, and here is a budget that is an obvious declaration of war on the poor and middle class. Indeed, many national dailies and wires turned to Bernie Sanders for quotes about the bill and its unbelievable badness....

"In fact, one of the problems that I have had in describing the Republican budget is that it is so bad ... that people don't even really believe you when you talk about what is in this budget."

Bernie Sanders also states in the video that unemployment among black males is "off the chart." This is a good thing. Sanders has to be direct about race if he is to draw black votes, which some are arguing he will lose because he is old and white. The feeling that his Brooklyn bluntness can tap into is that the grievances of millions of blacks were not addressed by the current black president.