Manchin Is Clueless

[WHITT]

Yesterday, on the floor of the Senate, Manchin claimed:

"The United States Senate has never been able to end debate with a simple majority"

He even had his own sign:




Only problem, he's goofy.

First off, there was NO filibuster for the first 17 years of the Senate.

Second, the last three Supreme Court nominees – Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch – were all confirmed with a simple majority. Manchin himself was the 51st Senator to back Kavanaugh, single-handedly ending debate.

[PortTack]

1. Good gawd buddy..can't ya do better than that? What a lie

[brush]

2. You may be right, but it's hard to believe this guy, who is so devoted...

to the filibuster rule, doesn't know the real history of it. He probably knows but pretends not to. Whatever it is, he's going to always throw up roadblocks to his own party's agenda.

I'm so sick of both him and Sinema. Fingers crossed, and I know it's just a slight chance, that we somehow elect two more Dem senators in the mid-terms.

[MLAA]

3. I think he knows the truth and doesn't care about the truth when it gets in the way of his donors.

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4. Yeah, he's all about his donors and keeping his dirty coal interests...

and income coming in.

[WHITT]

7. Sinema Is No Better

she still insists the filibuster is in the constitution, or as you posted, perhaps she's lying and using that as an excuse.

[brush]

8. If she's saying it's in the Constitutions she's certainly lying.

You've probably seen the threads lately that she thinks she's the smartest person in the room and expects to be running for president soon, which is why she plays both sides of the aisle, as if Democrats are going to forget she scuttled her own party's agenda and will vote for her for the party's presidential nominee at some point.

That will never happen, we have long memories, and republicans will vote for a real republican and not some chameleon like her who takes on a coloring she thinks is most favorable for her.

[magicarpet]

5. Manchin's main and only motivator,....

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[moondust]

6. Weird.

Is he talking about some special "nuclear option" for cloture or something? Sen. Klobuchar reported that the "nuclear option" using 51 votes has been used like 160 times.