Record early voting—with a big cushion for Dems.
Anticipated record turnout today—up to 3 million voters—which would be more than the 2017 record turnout.
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The story was planted days ago. It’s a toss-up!
Again.
We’re being manipulated by monied interests who want us to believe a fiction. As it has been in the past and ever shall be amen. The difference now is we’re being set up. The story is written no matter how it turns out — a shocking rebuke of Democrats or a theft by Democrats.
The Real World
In that narrative, though, Democrats are the patriots. Republicans won’t fix government; they’ve passed on that multiple times. Republicans want to use government power — power over you and I — to improve their financial well-being, because, if you don’t believe rich people are the only people who know what to do with money, maybe you’ll believe they deserve wealth because they are holy, and, if that doesn’t work for you, you’d better believe they’re rich because they’re better.
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How much more does this Operator need? It’s obvious he is not working for his constituents. Between his Wife, Daughter and Son this man has bought home the bacon for his immediate family while leaving his constituents high and dry.
I can see him as one of those guys who made the Articles of Confederacy totally unworkable.
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Some place the sun don’t shine, I’m guessing.
Don’t tempt me.
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I can imagine him as a member of the Polish Sejm exercising the liberum veto.
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Articles of Confederation sometimes seems to be their end state goal. Because it worked so well the first time.
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Historical Highlights
Representative Roger Griswold of Connecticut Attacked Matthew Lyon of Vermont on the House Floor
February 15, 1798
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
About this objectThe early days of Congress involved high-spirited and often physical legislative sessions.
On this date, Representative Roger Griswold of Connecticut attacked Representative Matthew Lyon of Vermont on the House Floor (then located in Philadelphia’s Congress Hall). Incensed that the House failed to expel Lyon for spitting tobacco juice at him on January 30, 1798, Griswold sought justice against the “gross indecency” by caning Lyon on the House Floor. Lyon defended himself with a pair of fire tongs. Both Members were separated, and a resolution to expel them was defeated handily, 73 to 21. One contemporary cartoon depicted both Members jousting with cane and tongs in what the cartoonist described as “royal sport.” The episode revealed emergent political factionalism in the House at a time when formal parties had yet to fully form. Underlying the Lyon-Griswold incident was Griswold’s support for the John Adams administration’s hard-line diplomacy toward France and military preparations in the event of hostilities. Lyon believed that preparations for war would eventually precipitate war.
I’m so fed up with this feckless piece of shit. I cannot imagine how stupid the people of West Virginia must be, but I have an inkling.
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Liberum vetos were in practice only cast by members of the Sejm’s lower house, which represented the gentry–but behind every such action was a powerful magnate who sat in the Sejm’s upper house (the Senate) and who had a private army capable of precipitating a civil war. Kind of like all-powerful dark money that lurks in the shadow of the American republic, which is increasingly resembling the ungovernable Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, lumbering along under its archaic constitution.
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More like, “blah blah blah campaign donation blah blah blah”
Some likely outcomes…
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Democrats clear the field for Lt. Gov Fetterman in PA for the '22 senate seat.
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As soon as rule adopted… 97 senators run for their chance to punch Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz. Easily #1 and #2 on every other senators list. Hawley sees his opportunity and ducks out the back.
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Jessie Ventura gets back into politics
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DiFi would still hug Lindsey Graham
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Involved on not, the same three Senators keep being the only ones arrested…
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He really thinks he’s president. “They put the wrong Joe in the White House!”
I believe the proper term is “Senator Motherfucker”.
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I can’t help repeating myself, but this whole episode smells as foul as the recently-revealed coalition of Karl Rove and Joe Lieberman in the 2006 senate election. I can’t imagine the variety of perks, including cash, coming the way of the entire Manchin family at this point. I suspect Joe has a big-enough war chest for at least two more senate campaigns, so the–ahem–“rewards” for being obstinate probably come to other family members or come in shapes different than dollars and rubles.
In book, former Sen. Joe Lieberman describes how Karl Rove and Republicans helped him beat Ned Lamont in 2006 - Hartford Courant
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I agree. Plus, in the article you linked, there’s a lovely picture of Manchin embracing a swooning Lieberman over some chummy business in the halls of Congress all those years ago.
Evidently the younger one learned from the elder how to get those “rewards” and just changed the terminology from the stodgy “centrism” to the ever-so-hip “bipartisanship”.
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