Posted on 01/06/2022 8:01:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has been the one to pretty much deliver the bad news to Democrats concerning their plan to nuke the filibuster. He’s already seen as public enemy number one on Build Back Better after he went on national television to announce he’s killing it because it’s an expensive communist venture. It’s a 50-50 Senate.
I don’t get what Chuck is trying to do here. Is it to ward off a potential primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Maybe—but she’ll be coming after you no matter what, Chuck. That’s her character. Period.
You could pass Build Back Better-plus, and she would still primary you if that was her plan. Yet, Sen. Krysten Sinema is the other party in this ongoing drama among Senate Democrats. They can’t afford to lose one vote.
Even if Manchin signs onto this plan, and I don’t think he will, then Democrats still fail thanks to Sinema.
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I still don’t trust them, they are whores still haggling over the price.
The RATS can all kiss my red, white and blue ass. BBB my ass. There slogan is also MAGA. MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY! The bottom feeding bastards. Damn them all.
He knows it will end his career if he votes for it. So he is trying to get a parachute add on, but he is too conservative for the liberals and they don’t want him for life, only for a vote.
You are right as usual. Unfortunately, our RINO whores operate in the shadows unlike the Dim whores who operate under the streetlights.
Hope someone is staying alert to the razor close math—Sen. Rob Portman (R-Somewhere) is currently out with the COVID.
Good analogy.
I would not be surprised if the faux-conservative CanuckTed joined his fellow leftists.
If he means Chuck Schumer I'll explain it to him. It's not complicated. He wants totalitarian government with himself and his ilk at the top. To hell with you little people.
When the Dems lose the Senate, Manchin and Sinema will switch to the Republican party because, by then, it will be OBVIOUS that the Democrat Party is DEAD!
I don’t trust any DC politicians, especially not Democrats. Something will pass, eventually.
Author Vespa is correct in the sense of the damage done to his senate comrades, but they’re staring down the end of D majority in Schumer’s lifetime come November.
They have no option other than the Voting reforms legislation which might give them a chance in November with all the vote rigging contained within. the only path to that is by busting the filibuster. Doomed to failure ? Probably, but what else can be done ? Nothing.
Damn the squishy Ds, go for it...so.thinks D leadership.
Chuckie should go forward w/ the filibuster plan on the assumption that a desiccated old pervert polling on a par with the desirability of having cholera is not going to drag down all the Dem marginal seats.......25 Dems have already jumped the sinking ship.
Hope springs eternal for the left......it IS possible that a midterm election with a massively unpopular president of the majority party will go well for the incumbents.
And BTW, it’s also possible that Nanzi Pelosi will be voted Miss America, Kamala Harris will enter a nunnery .....and Ted Lieu will win the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the fields of string theory and quantum mechanics.
I wonder which Republican turncoats we have to be on the lookout for at the critical hour
All of them.
Having lived in WV, Manchin is safe in re-election however he votes. That said, given the mothers milk of the WV economy is federal spending, Manchin and Capito(R) will both cave once they extract their price.
Judging by all of the things in WV named for Sheets Byrd.
“It’s a 50-50 Senate.”
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It’s actually a 48-2-50 Senate. Party breakdown in the U.S. Senate is actually 48 democrats, 2 independents and 50 republicans. It would seem, using simple math, that the republicans have the majority.
Not with Mitt Romney or Murkowski.
RE: Party breakdown in the U.S. Senate is actually 48 democrats, 2 independents and 50 republicans.
Bernie Sanders is one of the two so-called independents. Which makes him IN PRACTICE, a Democrat. Heck, this so-called “Independent” ran for President as a Democrat.
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