Your intermittent briefing on negotiations over the reconciliation bill.
The year is ending for Senate Democrats on a note befitting the last few aggravating months.
Yea for the judges.
Fuck Joe Manchin.
With Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) many demands unmet
I’m pretty sure that the last 6 months have been exclusively about meeting Sen. Joe Manchin’s many demands.
Joe says leap, we say “How high?”
ETA: Forgot about Sinema, as one should.
Critical to note that Manchin and Sinema playing ball on the nominations is making all the difference there.
Joe Manchin’s constituents hate Biden with extreme prejudice. Manchin is simply not going to give Biden a victory, and will humiliates him if the opportunity arises.
10:30 AM on a Friday and we are making sausage already. Hopefully no pork is involved. I’m thinking a vegapork variety might work but who knows anymore?
Four of Manchin’s top five contributors are in the fossil fuel business.
from:
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/joe-manchin/summary?cid=N00032838
With the 2 senate victories in GA and the imminent release of the vaccine I came into 2021 with high expectations. I don’t blame Biden or progressive Democrats for this bit of shit sandwich we got - some good things happened. The only 2 things that are going to absolutely drive me crazy will be the failure to protect democracy/voting and a total failure to address climate change in any meaningful way. If we cannot make any progress on those issues before the mid-terms I will truly be heart broken for our country.
re: sausage - no pork, no point.
This is not news but it is a real solid reason for what is happening. He is a good senator doing exactly what he is being paid to do.
Those judicial nominations are really the one good thing about Manchin and Sinema, and a reminder why our impulse to go to war against them could backfire. That said, I hope Biden has an endgame in mind that would have him push hard on executive actions once he squeezes as many nominations (and hopefully a weakened BBB) out of our two deplorable Senate Democrats before switching gears and using his executive authority more forcefully. Probably after the midterms, but I hope he squeezes some student loan relief in next month, as concurrent expiration of the child tax credit and student loan deferrals will hit a lot of people hard.
you nailed it… and MANCHIN has a lot of ‘investments’ he has to protect… god , guns/‘Deliverence’
is WVA…
You are 100% correct, but sometimes people forget what this is all about, really.
Pete Buttigeig must need psychiatric attention, because I heard none of this type of talk from him last night.
Manchin and Sinema aren’t the only two against raising the filibuster for voting rights . There are a few. Rachel Maddow pointed it out last night. We should be naming all of them. Maggie Hassan had been open to reform, but not for individual carve outs like this. Yesterday she put out a statement that she was now for it. Her previous reluctance? She’s up for reelection in a tight race and this could go against her.
Manchin is 100% going to get beat by a Trumptard in '24, and Sinema’s seat is 100% winnable for the right primary candidate. They can both go to hell.
Should I care that the only way the judicial nomination and executive branch picks get through is because Schumer locked Hawley, one of my Senators, in the broom closet under the stairs?
Did they lock Cruz in a SCIF, or down the well?
Running for re-election on a platform of being in favor of elections seems like good electoral politics.
I mostly agree, but I can see delaying sending them there for another month or two. Maybe even delaying some action until after the midterms if it seems like it will win us some more seats. After that, no holds barred. Put a partisan warrior in charge of the EPA and shut down every mine in WV. Cancel all student loan interest and some principal. Have the military spend its own money on climate remediation.
Go into the midterms with the economy booming, covid in the rearview, and a president with the reputation for fighting like hell.
Enterprise Product Partners is where Manchin’s SIL works.
