Posted on 04/25/2021 8:35:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) signaled, once again, on Sunday that he might be trouble standing in the way of Joe Biden’s agenda.
Manchin appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash. He made it clear that he would not be part of “blowing up” the Senate by killing the filibuster.
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin said that the Democrat push to get rid of the filibuster would “blow up…this democracy of ours”https://t.co/3RrMNcBDMV pic.twitter.com/4tp7tcCSWN
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 25, 2021
“I am not going to be part of blowing up this Senate of ours or basically this democracy of ours or the republic that we have,” Manchin said, referring to the Democratic push to eliminate the filibuster. “If we have a 51-vote threshold in the Senate, the same as the House–the House wasn’t designed to be partisan.” [….]
“The House was designed to be hot as a fire cracker. We were designed to cool it off, and that’s the Founding Fathers. It was a brilliant strategy they looked at, so why can’t we try to make this work?” Manchin continued.
Manchin explained if you blew up the filibuster, you’d have “violent swings” every time a new party took over in Congress, and that wasn’t the intent of the Founders.
He’d previously written an op-ed against eliminating the filibuster and he’s standing by it, which Fox News quoted from.
“The filibuster is a critical tool to protecting that input and our democratic form of government. That is why I have said it before and will say it again to remove any shred of doubt: There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster,” Manchin wrote. “The time has come to end these political games, and to usher a new era of bipartisanship where we find common ground on the major policy debates facing our nation.”
But it’s not only the filibuster on which Manchin is standing firm on upholding norms. It sounds like Manchin is going to give Biden some more fits when it comes to the infrastructure bill. Manchin said in the interview he thought Biden should remove the non-infrastructure things from the infrastructure bill. Apparently, not everything is infrastructure, to Joe Manchin.
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin backs GOP calls for Biden to remove non-infrastructure items from his proposalhttps://t.co/PUaFk6zaMc pic.twitter.com/bT2kC6hpLX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 25, 2021
Manchin had previously expressed concerns about the infrastructure bill as presently written, as I wrote.
Bottom line? Manchin may be one of the last Democrats left trying to bring a little sense to his party, maybe along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). The rest of the Democrats seem all in to destroy our system.
So naturally, the plan is to to say that this upholding the Constitution is somehow ‘racist,’ as Al Sharpton revealed.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) previously said that it was “insulting” that Manchin preferred to uphold the Senate rules rather than maintain a “relationship with the minority of voters in America,” as Fox News reported in its piece. It sounds like he’s right there with the plan to smear Manchin and Sinema.
So, when the Democrats were using the filibuster all last year, were they being racist? Or was it just that they were the minority in the Senate, which the filibuster protects? At what point do Democrats admit what hypocrites they are and how they’ll throw anything and anyone under the bus, if it gets them the power they want?
But as we observed earlier, if they do blow up all the norms, independents are telling pollsters they’re not likely to be on board with it — and they may suffer some serious consequences, come 2022.
RE: and they may suffer some serious consequences, come 2022.
I really get annoyed when someone mentions 2022 as if future elections are going to be normal. THEY ARE NOT. We haven’t fixed the anomalies and corruption of November 2020 and without that, you can’t be certain that future elections will be reflective of the REAL will of the people.
Manchin and Sexy Sinema ain’t budging.
In before all the usual nabobs of negativism and their wrong predictions.
Restore the Filibuster to the pre-Mondale [how many EVs did he get?] margin of 2/3.
So far I believe Manchin is not simply holding out for a higher price.
I hope he realizes that DC “statehood” is so they never have to ask him or anyone like him for their cooperation again.
Maybe Joe has been listening to some of the prophecies out there. Considering he is in the party of the baby killers I think that puts him in the “Woe to you” category.
ALL THIS SENATE CONTROL TALK COME FROM WHAT WAS DONE IN GEORGIA AND WHY.What the Republicans should be doing is using the Georgia reform and doing is this *REVIEW THOSE GEORGIA SENATE ELECTION RESULTS
Answer Biden’s stop order with this :
There were a series of fraudulent voting charges here. Were they enforced and corrected before this election took place ? If they weren’t is not a review called for ?
They were created with the introduction of Covid 19 which the Biden campaign thanks the CCP for doing; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts
If the Georgia Secretary of State is in charge of voting he has the responsibility of enforcing the state’s regulations as to who votes. And eliminate those from voter lists who don’t qualify.
Assign prosecutors to personally canvass and investigate. Check if military actually voted by asking them. Identify all voters by checking on legal age their residency and citizenship. If found they do not qualify charge Illegals including state visitors known as snowbirds also include any technical computer fraudulent Italian programming testimony when presenting to the court and get these election results tossed. Because there’s this; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3949751/posts
LINKED HERE ARE REASONS WHY THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING 90% of the military votes went for the Machurian candidate Joe Biden ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3927647/posts#28 Question Those results
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3924076/posts#30
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923435/posts#21
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923157/posts#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3922715/posts#18
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923312/posts#11
CHINESE COMMIES DON’T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN * THAT’S WHY THOSE BUSINESSES AND SPORT INDUSTRIES WITH CHINA CONNECTIONS ARE AFRAID THIS COULD HAPPEN WITH THE GEORGIA ELECTION REFORM
Manchin is making his move to be the D nominee
I HATE it that the nation always seems to come down to ONE MAN to prevent us sliding into the abyss.
Can Manchin also single-handedly stop DC becoming a state? The elimination of the Electoral College? The packing of the Supreme Court?
The Dems with NO majority in the Senate are going to wipe out these 150 to 230 year old institutions in their effort to finally destroy the USA.
Praying Manchin will continue to do ‘the right thing.’ You know the thing, the U.S. Constitution.
Joe Manchin understands the future consequences for the Senate and the Democrat Party of getting rid of the filibuster. Looks like the more radical Democrats only live for today.
Excellent post on Traficant.
The Democrats have gone full totalitarian lefty—dissent will not be tolerated—and dissenters will be dealt with....
Remember the Democrat’s rules—there are no rules—rules are for deplorables.
Need more than 2 RAT defectors. We have 7 slime ball GOP that will stab us in the back.
Let me explain 1 simple concept. I will be a succinct as I can. There is NO WAY that a bunch of crooked scumbags are going to give up their power/bribes up and give it to the judiciary. It would be like cutting their own crooked thoughts. Oh... and they want to give up the power to gum up the process. Where do you think they get their money? They are ALL a bunch of crooks and THAT is EXACTLY how they will behave. There is no way they are going to abandon that corrupt “money train”
There will be NO more “elections”!!! Just shams!
Oh... dear God! Ugh! “sexy sinema”? Are you REALLY that hard up? EWWW!
Rebuking the Rat agenda is sexy!
Sexy Sinema FTW.
Manchin would not stand alone. Sexy Sinema is the lifeline! 💃🏼
Well, there is always the hope that abolishing the filibuster and packing the courts are things the 'rats don't really want to do but they keep threatening to do it to fire up their base. Sinema and Manchin could designated "stumbling blocks" to use as an excuse when they can't get it done just as the Republican always seem to do.
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