Damnit Joe! The time for big bold programs is now. The timing to be aggressive and progressive is when our world has been turned upside down. Dust Bow/Great Depression=FDR’s New Deal. WW II=modern highway system, space mission, and technology!
Now is the time to repair, redo, and rethink how we as a country and world move forward. Joe one person shouldn’t have the power to derail progress just because…
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Fool me once
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No apology needed, you only quoted Discobot’s “Manchin”, you didn’t really say it yourself.
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“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
“Manchin?! Manchin!? Are you all right?”
“…She slimed me…”
“That’s great! You deserved it. Can you support the BBB?”
“I feel so…charitable.”
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“He reportedly told other senators he suspects that people will use that tax break to buy drugs.”
That’s the equivalent of wearing an “I am stupid and evil” button.
“Economic forecasters are downgrading predictions for the United States’ GDP growth in 2022 following news that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will oppose the Build Back Better reconciliation bill in its current form.”
Stupid, evil, and powerful enough that his evil stupidity is massively destructive.
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He really did just step on his own dick. An epic self-dick stepping, methinks.
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The legislation is too important to Play Games.
Even in the BothSider-ist/HorseRace Era.
Beyond the HorseRace/BothSider-ist sphere are real people.
And a real Planet
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He has some competition for dumbest and most petulant political leader:
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has vowed not to get a coronavirus vaccine after claiming she had natural immunity because she contracted COVID-19 in March.
Palin, who was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, said on Sunday she would get the vaccine “over my dead body.”
One can only hope…
Or, help me Obi-Wan Covid, you’re our only hope!
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Let’s have a roll call vote on the House-passed BBB. The corrupt Dem senators hiding behind Manchin and Sinema will have to vote yes or no on legislation their corporate donors hate.
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“If the choice is between violence and Joe Manchin, I would advise violence.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
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See just above re Palin.
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The bottom line with Manchin spilling his evil guts on Fox News was simply DISRESPECTFUL!!!
He’s DISRESPECTING our COUNTRY
He’s DISRESPECTING our SENATE
He’s DISRESPECTING our POTUS
He’s DISRESPECTING his CONSTITUENTS
He’s DISRESPECTING our CLIMATE AND GENERATIONS TOO COME!!!
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I think he’ll try to quietly patch a few of the holes he punched in the wall, then retire after the next election if the Dems win enough seats. He screwed up here and he knows it.
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Joe Biden is someone you can trust. Joe Manchin is not.
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He does. His and his family’s wealth lies in fossil fuels. It would be very nice, for him.
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The reaction of the moderates indicates how badly Manchin stepped into the dog shit and how utterly oblivious he is to his constituent needs. To add insult to injury, Goldman-Sachs stated that Manchin’s recalcitrant attitude HURTS the economy and GDP, not helps it.
Manchin has provided the Democratic Caucus and POTUS Biden a scarecrow to blame the lack of progress in 2021 on and it will be hard for even Joe Manchin, Man of the Mountaineers to live down. Biden will go into 2022 looking like a sympathetic figure who tried his damnedest to get the People a square deal but for “Crooked Coal Miner Joe”.
I suspect a few weeks in the dog house will change his attitude, BUT will he give up enough to get a decent bill passed in early 2022 ? Wyden’s wish list of a 10-year funded CTC, Medicare funding, prescription drug cost curbs and bazillionaire income and wealth tax increases may a pretty good place to start on Plan B.
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A fonferer of a paskudnik.
Okay lets not all get bent out of shape over this. After reading the WP story about Manchin’s counter offer on spending, I expect something will happen in January. I suspect there will be some tweaks, but much of the bill will survive intact. Tweaks might include income limits for certain programs.
More drama ahead, but I don’t think the bill is completely dead yet.
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