President Biden on Tuesday appeared to take aim at Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for their vehement refusal to eliminate or reform the filibuster amid Democrats’ push for voting rights reforms during a speech marking the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Here comes the pink haired attention addict and Limelight Joe’s fake outrage over this. Just wait for the whining about how comments like this don’t help bipartisanship.
Good for you Joe! Keep calling them out, louder and louder.
He should have called them out by name. He might have also asked why they hate protecting our democracy.
“I’m not ready to destroy our government,” Manchin said"
Said the guy doing precisely that.
How messed up do you have to be to be 73 years old and think that it’s better to leave the door open for fascism than to cast a vote to save democracy and possibly lose an election for that vote.
There are three parties in the senate: Democrats, Republicans, and the Nation of Joe Manchin. It did caucus with the democrats to get them the senate majority.
I’m at the point now where I think he just agrees with the GQP. His lip service about chasing cooperation unicorns and bipartisan rainbows is just cover for him acting in a way that gives him the result he actually wants.
Manchin uses bipartisanship as a canard. Bipartisanship requires two parties willing to work with each other. We don’t have that. We have Mitch “I am 100 percent’ focused on ‘stopping’ Biden’s administration” McConnell leading the Republican Party. Said another way, the GQP is 100% opposed to anything Biden and the Democrats propose, and that is NOT bipartisanship. It is quite the opposite.
Sen. Manchin, Sen Sinema, get you heads out of your respective A$$es.
The press asks the same question over and over again bc it can’t believe his lame
justifications.
" — with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
“I’m not separating our country, OK?” Manchin said
No need to worry about that, Senator! Your Republican colleagues have been doing it for literally decades, at least since Richard Nixon! Your tiny efforts are meaningless.
With majority rule!
Late to the party I see.
“I’m not separating our country, OK?” Manchin said, according to The Hill. “I don’t know what you all don’t understand about this. You ask the same question every day. It’s wrong.”
It’s not just the reporter, Mr. Manchin. It’s Joe Biden and his 81 million supporters who don’t understand you.
I’m not sure what Manchin’s strategy for re-election is, but there’s a danger in raising his profile too high, or so it seems to me. Democratic voters are getting more and more angry, and Republican voters are probably watching even closer than otherwise as he’s become the story in Washington. He’s much better off securing his base, in my view, and lowering the temperature. Abolish the filibuster now and there’s a pretty good chance it’s a nonstory by November, 2022.
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Shit, I knew I should’ve loaded up by last Sunday on the 86% hamburger on sale for $2.68 a pound. But I already have about 85 pounds in my freezers. Watch people make a run on meat now. 
https://www.startribune.com/meat-producer-ransomware-attack-disrupts-global-production/600063285/
If you’re talking about Manchin’s base, they’re mostly Republican. Look at the 2020 W.V election map,
He just won reelection so he’ll be about 79 when his current term is up. Ya think he’s worried about another term?
“I’m not separating our country, OK?” Manchin said…
That is the most willfully ignorant, deeply disingenuous, or stupendously naive statement I’ve ever heard. Or, any combination of the three.
I think it is important the discussion about disenfranchisement of voters evolve to include the question, or some version of it:
“So when the state level Republicans prove to be successful at disenfranchising Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, what will those voters do in response?”
The current discussion is framed in a way that the voters losing the franchise will just sit there and say “thanks for thinking of me”, do they really think that huge blocks of voters will just allow this to happen?
I don’t know what’s going to happen, but if/when Bubba MAGAt puts the barrel of his AK towards me/my kids to explain my new way of life and new value system based upon his, I can be pretty assured it won’t go over well, I can imagine that I am not alone.
When you seek to piss someone off, try not to be surprised that you pissed them off, and their reaction is something other than gratitude.
I’m waiting for the jab-jab-uppercut.
Let get this show on the road. We have a democracy to save!!!
“BREAKING: ‘I Won’t Start A Fire’ Vows Man Keeping Hose Crew From Burning Building At Gunpoint.”
Why would a hose crew want to burn a building?
In any case, I’m glad that that man is preventing the hose crew from doing so.
