Posted on 03/28/2021 4:24:23 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
If you’re counting on Joe Manchin to save the Republic… – Well, you might want to think again. For all his bluster and fake media coverage about being some sort of “moderate” Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has always been nothing but a reliable, down-the-line leftwinger who operates in what I like to call the Lloyd Bentsen mode of being a senator.
You might remember Lloyd Bentsen, the long-time Texas senator who ran for the vice presidency in 1988 as Michael Dukakis’s running mate. During his 22 years in the senate from 1971 through 1993, Bentsen was the quintessential Texas Democrat in Washington: He’d run for election like he was the second coming of John Wayne, assuring Texans he was watching out for them in the bad ol’ nation’s capital, and then, once safely re-elected for another 6 year term, would travel back out to the Swamp so he could pal around with Joe Biden and vote with Ted Kennedy 95% of the time.
PauseUnmute Fullscreen VDO.AI CANCEL That is the very essence of Joe Manchin, other than Ted Kennedy no longer being with us. But hey, that’s no problem for Manchin – he just always ends up doing whatever Chuck Schumer tells him to do instead. What Chuck Schumer is telling him to do right now is support the communist Democrat effort to get rid of the filibuster rule. Manchin famously came out in late January and told reporters that he was irrevocably opposed to taking that step off the cliff to destroy the American Republic, and was not open to negotiating about it. Remember that?
Yeah, I remember it, too, and what that was was a standard Joe Manchin lie. He was already negotiating away his stance, using it as a tool to get something else he wanted. And yesterday, we found out exactly what it was that Manchin was after.
It turns out that he was after a comfy new, high-paying federal job for his wife:
From the story at the Washington Examiner:
President Joe Biden is keeping it within the family by picking the wife of a key Democratic senator whose vote he will need on a slew of items to lead a federal commission.
Biden announced Friday that he is nominating Gayle Conelly Manchin to become the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal-state partnership aimed at creating economic growth within the region and lead it to parity with the rest of the country.
If Manchin’s last name sounds familiar, that’s because she is married to Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a pivotal vote for Biden in Congress’s evenly divided Senate. And Gayle Manchin requires Senate approval for the post.
Biden tapping Manchin comes as he prepares for his next big legislative push: an infrastructure and jobs package speculated to cost up to $3 trillion. Joe Manchin has indicated Congress should pass the bill through regular order rather than via the reconciliation process. Reconciliation would allow Biden to clear the measure through the Senate with only 51 votes.
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The average salary for an ARC employee in 2018 was $128,295 — 108.2% higher than that of the average government employee, according to OpenPayrolls.com. Another independent site that tracks federal salaries, GlassDoor.com, listed salaries with the economic-focused organization as high as $176,000.
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So, will Joe Manchin sell out the American people for $176,000 a year? You’re damn right he will. Just sit back and watch.
There’s a new girl in town. – If you’re looking for a Democrat senator who might – might – provide the one vote in defiance of the communist takeover of the country via elimination of the filibuster rule, you might want to pay less attention to the bought-off Manchin and more to Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Unlike Manchin, Sinema has in her short time in the senate established a track record of actually following through on her promises/threats to oppose Democrat party orthodoxy as they all goose-step over the cliff together.
Sinema has repeatedly made clear that she opposes any efforts to end the filibuster, is not movable on the subject and in fact even supports rolling back Harry Reid’s previous reforms that ended the ability to filibuster judicial nominees, as reported by Vox.com:
That leaves Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who said last month that she’d even support strengthening the filibuster by rolling back previous reforms, as the primary Democratic holdout on filibuster reform. Because Democrats control exactly half of the Senate’s 100 seats plus the vice presidency, they will likely need every single member of their caucus to support filibuster reform in order for any filibuster reform to pass.
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In fact, Sinema has already gone against Schumer and the communist Dems on one major key vote this year, theatrically casting a John McCain-like “thumbs down” vote on a minimum wage vote in February, a move that has garnered a lot of press attention in addition to the bleating from the Perpetual Outrage Mob on Twitter:
“She has a theory that picking fights with the left helps her,” said Emily Kirkland, executive director of Progress Arizona. “I think that is a real misreading of the moment.”
With a handbag slung over her shoulder, she appeared to make a pronounced demi-curtsy as she signaled a thumbs down for a minimum wage vote that was bound to attract attention. The echoes of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, who used a similar thumbs-down gesture to block a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, were inescapable.
“She wants to see herself as a maverick. When McCain did these things, he bucked his party because he voted for something that would potentially save lives,” said Tomas Robles, executive director of Living United for Change Arizona, a Latino advocacy group. “Her votes have been the exact opposite.”
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Leftist Democrats like those quoted in the report above like to describe Sinema’s independent streak as cynical politics while praising Manchin’s inevitable capitulations to party orthodoxy. The truth, however, is that Sinema appears to be that rarist of rarities in Washington, DC: An actual thoughtful member of the Democrat Party, sort of a senate version of Tulsi Gabbard.
It will only take one such Democrat to save the Republic from a rapid descent into communist hell by preserving the filibuster rule. Now that Manchin’s been so obviously bought off, Kyrsten Sinema seems to now be the last woman standing.
It remains to be seen how long she can remain standing in the face of what will inevitably a withering assault coming her way from the radical left and the corrupt news media.
Perhaps fortunately, Sen. Sinema is divorced, and thus lacks a spouse looking for a high-paying federal job. So, we got that going for us.
That is all.
We’ll soon find out Sinema’s price too.
If they can’t flip her there are more than enough Republicans willing to flip I bet
Is Manchin indeed bought off? We’ll see.
That is all?
If we have to depend on Kyrsten Sinema to save the country then we are already screwed, we all know the definition of insanity which is what hoping for either party in Washington to save the country is all about
States are our only hope and that is shaky at best, we need to deteriorate to a Weimar Republic and hope that whatever rises from the ashes doesn’t repeat itself
Joe Manchin is a key ally for the far-left agenda. West Virginia voters continually let him fool them.
Stuck with him until 2024. Bet he isn’t planning on running for re-election again so he no longer cares about any political consequences back home and will be all-in.
The 17th amendment murdered the republic long ago, folks.
Indubitably.
They won’t be in the minority. This election has shown everyone that what’s most important in an election is who counts the votes. Do you think the Dems will give that up? No way.
Exactly. Once he gets some RINO to cover he’ll go back to West-by-dumb-Virginia and tell the rubes “See!..I didn’t vote for that” and the brain dead morons there who keep voting for him while simultaneously voting GOP for president will believe it....again.
“If you really believe they’re against the end of the filibuster, think again.”
If the “end of the filibuster” means that the filibuster ceases to exist, then the Senate will become (even more) like the House. [It is noteworthy that Schumer came into the Senate during the Clinton impeachment from the House, and he continues to act like he is in the House, he can’t control his emotions.]
If the “end of the filibuster” means that a Senator must get up and hold the floor like it originally was practiced, I would really consider this as a parliamentary improvement.
I have long despised the kkkraps for decades now for using the filibuster by submitting it on paper from their offices, i.e. never having to do the work of talking and keeping the floor. DemonKkkraps have been extremely effective in killing GOP legislation and nominations. But as I have said elsewhere, the GOP is not only incapable of governing, the GOP has no interest in governing. Therefore the demonkkkraps didn’t have to do much to succeed really. With a 50-50 Senate, a real GOP might emerge with some of the younger Senators, and could be successful if the filibuster reverts to its previous practice. And America will win because it takes us closer to self-governance where the issues are spelled out by the (s)elected.
IOW, the GOP leadership would have to get 10 - 30 Senators committed to take turns in “x hour” increments and keep talking about the issue... to death. Of course, media censorship is a concern because there is no press in DC - i.e. much of the GOP talk will be like a tree in the forest with no one to hear. But, it will fill up the Congressional Record, and the longer it goes on, the less that gets done in DC (which is a very good thing) and eventually the media will complain about nothing getting done, and have to report why nothing is getting done. And the demonkkkraps won’t be able to push as much of their garbage onto the American people.
So you see, the “talking” filibuster requires real leadership, real beliefs worth fighting for, and WORK, and those are its 3 fatal flaws. All Senators want an easy way out. None of them want to work really for the people. They truly are holders of sinecures.
I would not be surprised if the demonkkkraps totally get rid of the filibuster, ram their crap through, then just after the 2022 election, if they by some miracle lose majority in the Senate, they will reimpose the office filibuster. The current GOP leadership will complain about it, but do nothing.
If the filibuster reverts to the “holding the floor”, and we have 10 - 20 GOP Senators who are committed to a real filibuster, America could win. But this is dependent on a GOP Hail Mary pass late in the game that the GOP has the number of people to push Mitch the Snake out of the way.
Can the abused filibuster stay where it is .... right now, I think the media euphoria and demonkkkrap obsession makes this a diminishing possibility.
n all cases, citizens be damned.
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Manchin Sinema!!!!!! They are ALL on the take.
Oh, such a soap opera. Uniparty (R) and Uniparty (D) hacks jockeying around to make sure they all play the parts they’ve been given. It’s all total BS. The decision has already been made. The filibuster is history and anyone who didn’t realize that on January 7 is a fool.
I guess Mrs. Manchin is TOO STUPID to get a JOB ANYWHERE but the CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!
OR there will be LOTS of MONEY FUNNELED INTO HER OFF SHORE BANK ACCOUNT!
> They won’t be in the minority. This election has shown everyone that what’s most important in an election is who counts the votes. <
Agreed. Too many conservatives still view politics from a 1970’s ebb and flow perspective. Unfortunately we are in a different world. Elections are now decided by linked electronic voting machines. No one really knows what’s going on here. And the Democrats plan to keep it that way.
We have already seen that the media and the courts don’t care much. So who will save the Republic? I’m scratching my head on that one.
I hope you are right, but I have serious doubts that the GOP has 10-30 senators who would band together and “hold the floor”.....
I think we can count them on 1 hand maybe 5-7 total...
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley perhaps then who
I have no confidence in my two Senators Rubio or Rick Scott, neither has shown any real talent in statesmanship
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