More like Joe threw us plebs a bone and we’re supposed to thank him for it. Fuck this twerp.
He been arrested yet? Hopefully he’s in the middle of a livestream when they come for him.
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Democrats have to value civility, politeness, bipartisanship and be judged for those qualities because Democrats want to get things done. If all you want to do is obstruct then your life is so much simpler.
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In other words, tuition went up by a factor of 10, minimum wage went up by a factor of 2, we’re only asking for minimum wage to go up by a factor of 5 (from the one he received) and he’s got the arithmetic skills of a kindergartener’s moist naptime pantsturd.
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He skipped his math classes, obviously.
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Yep I’ve been having these conversations with my contemporaries. Comparing the cost of tuition, housing, and gas from '78 (when my sister went off to college) through '84 when I graduated.
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Looks like all the posts are side topics bagging on Manchin instead of being happy he is supporting the nomination.
I’m not surprised though.
Often seems this place is congenitally incapable of being satisfied with anything.
I guess in a sense I’m pulling the same thing though by being dissatisfied with this.
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It’s pretty clear Manchin doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the people who desperately need it:
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or would it better if he was under the bed?
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I’m going to go with bed…I wanna watching him dragged out from under it by his ankles…
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If he’s white, of course he’s white, they’ll try and talk him out from under the bed. They may even send an officer to get him Big Mac value meal while the negotiations are going on.
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Sinema and Manchin are also the ones who are most likely to scuttle the move to kill the filibuster. Which will need to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future if Biden is to be allowed to get anything done before mid-terms.
The fact that both parties share in the blame for selective application and customized trimming of the rule is beside the point. McConnell has turned what remains of the filibuster into a blunt instrument of obstruction. It needs to go.
Sinema cannot go home to Arizona with nothing to show in way of legislation – Kelly will get creamed and she’ll be carpooling with a wingnut like McSally…
With regard to Manchin, Biden needs to channel his inner-LBJ and bend back some fingers – all the way back – in exchange for a promise of massive state aid. What exactly does West Virginia have going for it once the virus is somewhat under control besides an enduring poverty rate that reaches as high as 28 percent in some areas and an unemployment rate in several counties more than twice the national average that it could afford to turn down such an offer?
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Then leave a trail of pardons leading from the bed back to his PC like ET with the Reese’s Pieces…
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I lived in Kansas in the same kind of town KSU is in at the same time he was in school there.
He’s four years younger than I am.
So he would have been at KSU starting in 1978.
I was making around $6000 a year then and it didn’t go up to $8000 until about 1984, getting paid slightly more than the minimum wage.
(I just went and looked at my Social Security records to check.)
That was more than enough to live on at the time.
I did work in restaurants which made my food bill a bit less than it would have been but still.
So the upshot is he’s full of shit and needs to do some basic math on how cost of living has changed from 40 years ago.
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Hmmm 
So he doesn’t care about Haaland? Or a deal was reached? Or he is really thin skinned about his daughter and Tanden?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Ah, so is the gentleman from Kansas introducing legislation to raise the minimum wage to $37.30, or to raise taxes sufficient to increase state and federal contributions to higher education 10-fold ?
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When I was in high school in the late 70’s I was working a part time job in a nursing home kitchen that paid $3.25 when the minimum wage was $2.90. When I applied for it and hired I was quite content that it was over the minimum wage so I could save for college.
The minimum wage bill that Carter signed in the beginning of his term indexed it to $3.35 in 1981 where it sat through the eight years of the Reagan administration into the George H.W. Bush era when he signed an increase with some compromise for a training wage.
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This is one of the things my high school and college friends talk about. Working a summer job when you’re in college, should pay for a large part of your expenses. Mine never covered all, but some people’s summer jobs did.
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I’m late to the party, but I’m thrilled. I really want to see Haaland confirmed.
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