Posted on 06/08/2021 6:07:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Joe Manchin’s defiant statement that he will not vote for a sweeping election reform bill nor vote to get rid of the filibuster has progressive groups and some Democratic lawmakers wondering when Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will get tough with the West Virginia Democrat.
Manchin is a member of Schumer’s leadership team and Schumer has several points of leverage, including the power to replace him as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
But Schumer doesn’t have a reputation for getting tough with colleagues. Instead, he keeps them close and hardly ever criticizes Democratic senators who cause him headaches. Schumer is up for reelection next year, and there is speculation he could be challenged in a primary.
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In this fight, Manchin has the nuclear weapons, and the Republicans can put them on their missiles.
Then the GOP governor appoints a Republican Senator and Mitch is back in charge. Doubt they will do it though.
Schumer gets tough with Manchin YOU BRUTE.
Schumer is smart enough to know that with a 50-50 senate, Joe can write his own ticket by switching parties {if he brings the tranny bitch from AZ with him, just for insurance}.
Chuck knows that the DemonRAT Jews are just hanging with him, but only by a thread, and he loves the trappings of power more than results for the crazies.
Chuckie is into bribery, strong arming is his weak suit.
Your first post was bad, the second was over the top.
We know you are on Joe's payroll, but are you sleeping with him?
"greatest Americans alive" ???WTF???
Murkowski is up for reelection and would certainly lose as a Democrat in Alaska. She may figure she's going to lose anyway, but why flip off your state by screwing your party one last time?
Collins probably won't flip because she knows she'd be treated worse than Jim Jeffords if she went Democrat.
And... both Murkowski and Collins know they'd have more power in a 51-49 R Senate than in a 50-50 D Senate.
-PJ
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