[DoodleDawg]

Manchin said he's opposed to eliminating the filibuster entirely but is open to returning it to the days where if you wanted to filibuster then you had to stay on the floor of the Senate for the duration, as it was until 1970. I suppose there are ways to continue blocking bills under that format - once one Senator can't go on then a new Senator announces their own filibuster, something like that. But it would mean an end to phoning-it-in and blocking legislation that way.

[JohnBrowdie]

this is just the first leak in the dam. he’ll cave.

but, hey, we don’t have those two lousy rinos from GA in the senate, so we’re good.

[rfp1234]

Whatever reform they try to pass will be reversed by the Senate in 2023 or 2025.

[monkeyshine]

I guess eliminating the filibuster makes his vote(s) more powerful.

[Paladin2]

Before Mondale the vote margin was 67.

Keep the Filibuster, just change the required votes to 50. Ez Pz

[sauropod]

Hayley, you lie. Manchin is not a “moderate.”

[Trump20162020]

As Push For Abolishing It Grows

What's the source for this claim? The author's head-canon or did an actual U.S. Senator who recently said he or she opposes abolishing the filibuster flip?

[cowboyusa]

He didn’t really say that either, he said he is willing to talk about it. The MOST important thing is to block HR1.

[VeniVidiVici]

Manchin’s a lying coward. He has NO intention of siding against the Demorats.

[RC one]

I guess they have already forgotten how this kind of thing came back to bite them in the ass.

[Richard Axtell]

Each one of these insane destructive bills the corrupt Democrat elite pass, due to stolen elections and unconstitutional Executive Actions, is another step towards massive secession of states that literally don’t want to be drug down into the mire of failure and tyranny. Connecticut just seemingly joined that group, whether they meant to or not. Insanity is something to escape, not to encourage. I hope fence sitting Biden voters come to that realization.

[NobleFree]

“effectively dooming most legislation”

Journ-O-List idiocy ... few bills get filibustered.

[Uncle Miltie]

Here comes the evisceration of the 2nd amendment.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m fine with it being that way again, as long as it takes a 2/3 vote to override it.

[BeauBo]

I guess the check cleared.

He is in a position to demand premium prices for bribes, and is professional enough to understand that market.

Payday for the swing votes.

[Beowulf9]

I’m gonna either start cryin’ or start drinkin’.

Anybody wanna join me?

[DesertRhino]

Manchin.... “the moderate”. LOL

[BobL]

Yep...you guys who BOYCOTTED the Georgia runoffs (to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’) created this (the loss of legal gun ownership).

Proud of yourselves, now that you’re about to be felons?

Do you REALLY think you ‘taught the GOP a lesson’? (you probably do, LOL!)

[cranked]

I just to think it was just the Left that would destroy this country, Now the feckless Repubs have jumped in bed with them.......

[Da Coyote]

Funny, read the first couple of sentences without looking at the source and thought “liberal”.

Bingo.

[Kozak]

I said from the beginning. Don’t trust him.