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In the discussion thread: Pramila Jayapal says Joe Manchin has outlined in detail the parts of the social spending bill [View all]

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Thu Jan 27, 2022, 08:05 PM

qazplm135 (7,239 posts)

31. First

Voting rights isn't in this bill, this is reconciliation stuff.

Second, this whole preemptive defeatism is what's going to do as much work as anything in any future losses.

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
Pramila Jayapal says Joe Manchin has outlined in detail the parts of the social spending bill [View all]	AZProgressive	Jan 2022	OP
There is a moron	Casady1	Jan 2022	#1
Hmmm	Beachnutt	Jan 2022	#6
She is Awesome!	leftieNanner	Jan 2022	#2
+ 1 nt	pazzyanne	Jan 2022	#44
She is 100% correct. Get it done and move on. Quickly. Potentially	OnDoutside	Jan 2022	#3
Am I missing where King Manchin lined up the 10 republicons	FoxNewsSucks	Jan 2022	#4
Perhaps this is the reconciliation bill	MichMan	Jan 2022	#10
That's what I'm afraid of.	FoxNewsSucks	Jan 2022	#16
It's a ton of money any way you slice the huge cake.	Alexander Of Assyria	Jan 2022	#22
If they end up at $600 billion,	FoxNewsSucks	Jan 2022	#24
Hear u on the war machine spending spree, obscene by comparison, and always easily passed.	Alexander Of Assyria	Jan 2022	#27
Something is always better than nothing...we need to be willing to more our policies through as	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#51
I'm sure the Chamber of Commerce has a collective orgasm	FoxNewsSucks	Feb 2022	#65
ASAP	Beachnutt	Jan 2022	#5
Something is better than nothing	In It to Win It	Jan 2022	#7
This is assuming that Manchin is negotiatiing in good faith...	regnaD kciN	Jan 2022	#8
Almost certainly he's not	skydive forever	Jan 2022	#28
So call his bluff	qazplm135	Jan 2022	#30
Yep. Call his bluff.	calimary	Jan 2022	#35
Bernie Is Also Pushing	WHITT	Jan 2022	#9
No, Bernie thinks he can force it and get more. I don't. Nothing should be brought to the Senate	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#52
Nope	WHITT	Feb 2022	#55
That would kill any chance of passing anything.	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#60
No	WHITT	Feb 2022	#68
KnR	Hekate	Jan 2022	#11
He'll come up with different objections as soon as these are met.	brush	Jan 2022	#12
Bingo, you can't trust him.	Emile	Jan 2022	#32
It doesn't hurt to try. And even a watered down version of that bill would be great...and	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#53
Good for Jayapal. She's absolutely right to work	comradebillyboy	Jan 2022	#13
Without voting rights,	FoxNewsSucks	Jan 2022	#18
All the more reason to take what can be gotten now.	comradebillyboy	Jan 2022	#25
First	qazplm135	Jan 2022	#31
I can't speak for anyone else,	FoxNewsSucks	Jan 2022	#46
You know what I don't agree with that at all. I think some of this shit isn't going to work for	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#61
You don't have to agree.	FoxNewsSucks	Feb 2022	#66
First, the only way anything passes is in reconciliation	Bettie	Jan 2022	#14
Sure, and Lucy is getting ready	kacekwl	Jan 2022	#15
I don't trust them either.	calimary	Jan 2022	#36
Pramila Jayapa will be our next speaker of the house. N/t	FSogol	Jan 2022	#17
Sounds good to me.	FoxNewsSucks	Jan 2022	#19
Hakeem Jeffries might like a word on that	tritsofme	Jan 2022	#45
WaPo reported January 8 that he no longer supports his own counteroffer on BBB.	femmedem	Jan 2022	#20
I'll wait 'n' see. My expectations of anything Joe Manchin "offers" have dropped through the floor.	calimary	Jan 2022	#21
Rename president Biden's signature piece of legislation,	gab13by13	Jan 2022	#23
what about Princess Cinema? (misspelled on purpose)	rurallib	Jan 2022	#26
Manchinema economic restoration act	Beachnutt	Jan 2022	#29
I misspell it Enema. Kyrsten Enema.	panader0	Feb 2022	#56
I've heard her called "Itchy"	FoxNewsSucks	Feb 2022	#69
Great news!	mahina	Jan 2022	#33
Pramila knows how to make sausage. Art of the possible.	Beastly Boy	Jan 2022	#34
bird in the hand. . .	housecat	Jan 2022	#37
So Lucy is holding the football again.	Mr.Bill	Jan 2022	#38
Bingo!	hamsterjill	Feb 2022	#63
Soured on her when she endorsed Nina Turner.	BoomaofBandM	Jan 2022	#39
She endorsed Nina? Yuck!	True Blue American	Feb 2022	#47
I agree about Nina Turner...no Democrat should endorse a third party candidate especially one who	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#50
Pass what you can now. You can always come back. Do it or just Git 'er done.	Evolve Dammit	Jan 2022	#40
Anyone bother checking with What's Her Face?	BlueIdaho	Jan 2022	#41
Another one of our newer stars in the House, I think this is evidence some are learning about how	ShazamIam	Jan 2022	#42
I like all the House members you mentioned. However, I do think Jayapal has true leadership	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#49
I think Jayapal is learning from Nancy how to be a leader versus being a star though being a great	ShazamIam	Feb 2022	#70
No more negotiations with Sinema- if Manchin supports the package, she will cave	Fiendish Thingy	Jan 2022	#43
She is right...showing leadership the way it should work. Get what you can and come back for more...	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#48
Article is dated Jan 27. Manchin called BBB "dead" on Feb 1. (Nt)	FreepFryer	Feb 2022	#54
His ass is getting kissed in Washington so much I can taste it all the back here in Colorado. nt	Hotler	Feb 2022	#57
Agreed.. surprisingly he said he'd pass the climate measures as I recall	jcgoldie	Feb 2022	#58
What about voting rights?	ecstatic	Feb 2022	#59
We don't have the votes. Right now some of these measures are in court. In Ohio GOP map	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#62
I've never seen anyone who can move the goalposts better than Manchin	Poiuyt	Feb 2022	#64
Pramila doing the work.	BradAllison	Feb 2022	#67
But now we have the added complication of a Senator having a stroke...and will he be available to	Demsrule86	Feb 2022	#71
The New Mexico news	Elessar Zappa	Feb 2022	#73
I'm impressed with Jayapal	peggysue2	Feb 2022	#72

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