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Machin holding Democrats for ransom

 
Casper 2021-10-20 22:22:37 

Do as I want for my Big Donors, or I bolt the party and give the Senate to McConnell.


Manchin Tells Associates He’s Considering Leaving the Democratic Party and Has an Exit Plan.


He could pull the trigger if he doesn’t get his way on the Build Back Better bill.



He told associates that he has a two-step plan for exiting the party. First, he would send a letter to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, removing himself from the Democratic leadership of the Senate. (He is vice chair of the Senate Democrats’ policy and communications committee.) Manchin hopes that would send a signal. He would then wait and see if that move had any impact on the negotiations. After about a week, he said, he would change his voter registration from Democrat to independent
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It is unclear whether in this scenario Manchin would end up caucusing with the Democrats, which would allow them to continue to control the Senate, or side with the Republicans and place the Senate in GOP hands. In either event, he would hold great sway over this half of Congress.

Without Manchin’s vote, the Democrats cannot pass the package in the 50–50 Senate. And a vote on this measure is key to House passage of the $1 trillion bipartisan road-bridges-and-broadband infrastructure bill the Senate approved in August. (Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, has also been a problem for the party.) Manchin has met with Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and a variety of his fellow Senate Democrats this week in an effort to strike a deal. Through it all, he has insisted that $1.75 trillion is his top and final offer, and he has constantly said no to proposed programs that almost every other congressional Democrat supports. He has told his fellow Democrats that if they don’t accept his position, they risk getting nothing.


That is a West Virginia gun to the head. It's not that Democrats would get nothing, it's that all those Blacks and Minorities who voted to put Biden in the Whitehouse would get nothing. It matters not one bit to Machin if Trump's Republicans control all of Congress, his almost lily White state of West Virginia could care less also, once they have their guns and Bibles and "those Blacks" have no leverage and little control over Congress.

It's also why he couldn't care less about the Voting Rights for Blacks. Machin is just a relic of the old Southern Democrats. His only saving grace until now within the modern Democratic party is that he has not yet jumped the broom over to the Republican party, which is nothing but the old Southern Democratic party with a GOP camouflage.

 
carl0002 2021-10-21 00:22:01 

Its not like we didn't know, Its just that things are coming to light. A Democrat blackmailing Democrats for the Republicans. And to have 2 of them in a 50/50 Senate is depressing. He is actually getting paid to throw back the leadership of the Senate to the Republicans. That is a corrupt politician in the nastiest sense of the word. He relished the spotlight, played up to it and now the light has exposed him for what he is.

 
JohnBull 2021-10-21 00:53:47 

The man makes Judas look like a loyal servant to raass ...!

But it just goes to show you the diff btwn the Dems and the Republicans. I cannot imagine McConnell and the Repub senators countenancing such disloyalty over such crucial legislature...... that mofo would have to toe the line or else.

 
Runs 2021-10-21 14:53:22 

In reply to carl0002

Endorsed cool

 
Brerzerk 2021-10-21 15:16:59 

That Dems cannot hold a NC seat win a Dem seat with a Dem Gov. in Tennessee, allowed a Josh Hawley to win Claire McCasskill's former seat because McCasskill didn't pay enough attention to the small but crucial black vote they deserve what they get. Should've been able to sideline the Manchin's of this world.

 
VIX 2021-10-21 15:20:23 

#MurcanProblems

#shitehole

 
Brerzerk 2021-10-21 15:22:43 

Irony is by Nov 22 the senate could easily be 55-45 GOP majority

 
Tryangle 2021-10-21 15:22:47 

In reply to VIX

Is it time to get another bucket of popcorn? American politics is truly wild.

 
VIX 2021-10-21 15:24:12 

In reply to Tryangle

Not as wild as the Caribbean immigrants complaining about it!

 
dayne 2021-10-21 15:33:20 

Manchin has always been a Republican in Democratic clothing, many times when he voted with the Democrats it was because he knew what he was voting for would not pass. He is totally BS

 
carl0002 2021-10-21 16:39:20 

Now you have Sinema gutting the revenue side of the BBB and Democrats running to find other tax measures as Sinema refusing across the board tax increases in opposition to her own party and constituents. This not even funny anymore. If you want a blatant example of why no one trusts politicians there you have it. Sinema has spoken more to corporate donors, lobbyists, Republicans than to her democratic colleagues and constituents. 5 of her advisory board members resigned today cuz they cant tell whose interests she is representing as its certainly not their own. This is a mess. Not to mention Munchkin blackmailing his own party for his personal interest. shock A mean you couldn't make this $hit up even if u tried really hard, yet.....

 
Brerzerk 2021-10-21 21:40:19 

Manchin's is a bluff though. Thanks to Chump he cannot return to the Repub party and beat the person who will be running against him in the Repub primary.

 
birdseye 2021-10-22 00:19:43 

In reply to Brerzerk

Manchin's is a bluff though. Thanks to Chump he cannot return to the Repub party and beat the person who will be running against him in the Repub primary.
That’s exactly what I was about to post.he can’t win West Virginia as a Republican. There are too many of them to the right of him

 
carl0002 2021-10-22 05:08:36 

In reply to birdseye
.. Regardless, is that the sort of tactics and game you should be running on your own team...
And had the audacity to mention the other day that all civility is gone...meanwhile he blackmailing his family even go as far as using the same Republican trope that he not turning the country into a socialist entitlement society.