Oops

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is usually very careful with his words.

But this morning at a joint press conference in Montpelier with U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, Sanders slipped a bit.

In his introduction at the meeting, Sanders discussed how Vermont's entire Washington delegation is backing President Obama's stimulus package. He said U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy backs the plan and so does U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords.

Oops. Jeffords stepped down a few years back - and Sanders won his seat in the 2006 election. And of course Sanders' replacement - Peter Welch - was sitting right next to him.

I'm sure Jeffords would be on board with the plan too, if he were still serving.

-Dan Barlow