Might as well make Manchin majority leader, then.
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Tanden will withdraw her candidacy by close of business Thursday.
Isn’t it nice the Dem bench is so deep? Very refreshing change from the prior administration.
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If not this, they would have come up with something else. It’s not about the tweets, and we all know it.
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Then I guess we had better win more seats in 2022.
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In point of fact, I tend to agree, but this is no longer about Tanden, it’s about the Senators and the Senate and how poorly, on the whole, it serves the country.
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Good. Lets end this damn ever occurring Democratic self immolation. The Democrat Tanden fired off a bunch of unnecessary albeit no more offensive than millions of others, tweets that she should have known would come back to haunt her from the perpetual victim crowd. The GOP has ALWAYS done that and have always made a bunch of hay doing so. Then you have the fucking Democrat Manchin pouring his gasoline on the mess too. So fucking pull this nomination, pick another and end the GOP / Manchin crap. Shut the red neck from WV up and nominate someone else. End this. It only works for the GOP as a momentum stall.
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And I completely agree with you, that we have a broken system, and a broken country. All we can do is forge ahead.
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Trial balloons.
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Wait, Manchin chairs the Senate Energy Committee and has financial ties to the coal industry? Am I missing something here?
it’s amazing how people think a president and a senate majority leader have literally no power to compel sitting senators
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I know it’s all ‘politics’ but dammit…it’s sexist and bigoted and petty. This so pisses me off.
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With people like you cheering them on, how could they lose?
Maybe Manchin is still mad that Tanden drew attention to his daughter’s leadership of a drug company notorious for its predatory pricing?
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Can’t she be the ‘acting’ OMB director?
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Not sure how that works. I think there must first be a confirmed one…but maybe not. It would be a bad idea anyway.
I wonder what the problem is with this one.
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Is this the “deal” they made for Garland?
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Fuck that. Let Manchin explain to America why it is the only nominees he has trouble with are women of color.
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Yes. I wonder.
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Maybe people think that because they can do math, see that the SMJ is the “boss” of people who can fire him-like the Commissioner of Baseball-and grasp that in a majority of 50, the only power they cannot use the stick, only carrots. And if the the right-most senator doesn’t want a carrot more than he wants to do a thing, he’ll do the thing.
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