Besides:Actually, it's worse: They are voting against even **allowing a vote** on whether to authorize an investigation. https://t.co/6fA9vc4psL
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 28, 2021
I was staying out of the Manchin-bashing, but:There's a certain nihilistic beauty in opposing an independent commission as an inevitably partisan process, thereby making a partisan process inevitable.
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) May 28, 2021
Shit, man, if that’s all you can say, do yourself a favor and shut up.To be fair, Joe Manchin is a very successful five-year old. https://t.co/NnFisMxKkC
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 28, 2021
Manchin sounds embarrassedly naive. To have been in Washington as long as he has and to not understand what the Republicans are doing is shameful.
ReplyDeleteOr he’s trying to keep his seat. He can’t afford to identify too closely to the party of AOC and Pelosi. Not in West Virginia.
DeleteI thought he was naive, too. On reflection, I’m not so sure. Imagine how right wing a GOP Senator from WVA would be.
I’d still like to see the filibuster ended. I don’t think Manchin’s voters would notice, but he fears they would.
I don't bash Manchin because if voters in my state and a few others had been responsible it could be gotten rid of without him and the other one. I deeply feel the shame that Maine deserves with the return of Susan Collins to the Senate even as I know the reason for that is the virtual 100% hold of politically important media by Republicans here. Including "Maine Public Radio".
ReplyDeleteThere's not that great a difference between much of Maine and West Virginia, especially interior Maine, East, West and Northern Maine.
You are right, I should be more sympathetic. Living in New Hampshire, I am getting a good lesson in the need for conservative Democrats to counter the GOP. The town where we have bought a house and move to this summer is a just a bit more blue than red. There is a school board election in a few weeks (unfortunately we won't be residents until July). At the online voter forum with the candidates, someone demanded an answer on critical race theory in the schools. The candidates were patient with their answers (I would not have been), they recognized it was important to get elected and support the schools, not to antagonize moderate conservatives that want good schools. I do wish Manchin would take one for the team to get voting rights legislation passed, otherwise the field is going to be so tilted it won't matter. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteManchin is not my hero. His only saving grace is he's not pious Joe Lieberman.
DeleteThe filibuster needs to go. Manchin's argument for it seems to be "we've always done it this way!", which is a terrible excuse for any behavior. If it were a good way to govern the House would have a similiar rule. That it doesn't tells you the rule is stupid and retrograde and gives the minority far more power than they should have. End it.
Funny thing in my school district: the candidate backed by the crazies (anti-maskers, CRT-fearers, etc.) joined the majority to unanimously keep a mask mandate on the schools until the end of the school semester. Word is he pissed off many of his "supporters" who thought he'd vote with them because....well, I never did figure out why they thought that.
This whole CRT/mask/what have you controversy will continue for a short while, until FoxNews gets bored with it and looks for another shiny toy....