Posted on 03/27/2021 8:42:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With a 50-50 split in the United States Senate, there are two things Joe Biden cannot afford: Democrat defections and a filibuster. Senate rules require 60 votes for cloture to move on legislation, and recent years have turned the filibuster into an obstruction tactic by the minority party.
Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat from the very red state of West Virginia, has found himself in a very powerful position. His support or opposition to key legislation could make or break Joe Biden’s agenda in Congress.
So, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow at the fact that Joe Biden has nominated Gayle Conelly Manchin, Senator Joe Manchin’s wife, to co-chair the Appalachian Regional Commission, which is an economic development partnership with 13 states designed “to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia.” The position requires Senate confirmation.
This nomination comes at a time when Manchin has publicly expressed opposition to extreme gun control, a $15 minimum wage, and eliminating the filibuster.
So, what exactly is Biden up to?
It is not unprecedented for the spouse of a member of Congress to serve in an executive branch position. For example, Senator Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao served as transportation secretary under President Trump and labor secretary under President George W. Bush.
But it’s hard to ignore the special circumstances surrounding Mrs. Manchin’s nomination that suggests, regardless of her qualifications, an ulterior motive by Joe Biden, or whoever it is making his decisions for him.
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Did he reach him in West Virginia, or on the yacht where he actually lives?
Most of them think, like most folks everywhere, what they are told to think.
Odd that, against a beatable Democrat, the GOP candidate is ALWAYS a "weak GOP candidate".
Why do you suppose that is?
The whole premise of the so-called "nuclear option" is that the Senate rules can be changed by a majority within a session (as opposed to at the beginning of a session. It's not clear if this is true, when Hubert Humphrey was presiding over a 68-32 Democrat majority Senate he ruled from the chair that the rules could be changed by a simple majority within a session, his ruling was appealed to the floor and he lost 48-52.
Of course, 1967 Democrats and 2021 Democrats are different animals, but it is still not a simple matter of Roberts Rules.
A single US Senator is the most powerful parliamentarian in the world BECAUSE he has the filibuster, and yes, Senators in 2021 are much weaker and much more corrupt than they were in 1967, but still, voting to make your own self less powerful for no good reason may not gain 50 votes, even in THIS Senate.
Were you fine with Elaine Chao as Secretary of Transportation?
Both parties are part of the same hypocrisy.
WV GOP sux!
And MO, and IN, and DE, and GA, and AZ, and...
Do you begin to sense a pattern here?
The NH Senate race in 2022 is going to be very interesting.
Biden has nominated Gayle Conelly Manchin, Senator Joe Manchin’s wife.
Put sold tag on that one.
Maybe you’re watching too much Fox News. You want an “insurrection” and hand the Uniparty (one side of which you still have faith in) exactly what they want?
If you’re going to leave, take the snark with you.
“If you’re going to leave, take the snark with you.”
Sorry, no dice. But yes, you are correct, I’ll take the Uniparty over Democrat rule, and you will soon. You just don’t know it.
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
— Communist goal #15, from The Naked Communist, 1958
Gayle Manchin is nominee for the Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
What the heck is so special about such a position that it would warrant selling out one’s openly stated convictions?
What’s so essential and powerful about this position anyway?
Are the Manchin’s so desperate for money and power that they would sell out their principles so quickly?
Do you begin to sense a pattern here?
Yes, yes I do. It’s something that has been quite evident for the last five years at least. It is that politicians, whether Republican or Democrat, care nothing whatever for the wants and/or needs of the citizens of this nation. They have their “club” and they will rule us as they see fit and will accept no intrusion by any “populist” outsider.
What the heck is so special about such a position
$160.000 a year and add in all the perks medical retirement checks ect......
Convictions are cheap with the democrat party members note history.
See post 72. Been going on for far longer than five years.
“LOL, they’ve proved that they’re the same thing for decades, and last year is when they de facto publicly admitted it.”
I’ll look at the vote tally on gun control before concluding that ‘there’s no difference between the parties’.
Even so, I never denied the Uniparty, and that certain IS the case in some areas, with one of them being how they looked at Trump. That was sickening, but how do you end it? Even Ted Cruz is part of the Uniparty, being that he wanted Skunk Cabbage to win 2016 and attacked Trump, viciously, after the Jan 6 protest in DC.
Sure, there are people like you and me*, but how often do people like us end up in DC without being corrupted. In Texas, Dan Patrick was a Rush Limbaugh talk radio guy - that good. He got elected to State Senate, and now is Lt. Governor (as powerful as governor, at least). He only ran because of the way the Texas GOP abused him and about 80 other people who bused into Austin to testify on capping property taxes (which, for many here, increase at 10%, year after year). Guess what...he hasn’t done jack.
*and yes, we are very similar. Only difference is that I’m not willing to concede ANY ground (or actually concede the country) to Democrats, due to my anger with the GOP.
Really? At this point and time, does it matter? We have been defeated. Even our Donald Trump could not overcome his stolen election. History tells us a Republic last, give or take, 200 years. We are past that. I have lived in Georgia my whole life. Never have I in my 67 years felt like this. Flame away if you must.
Of course it has.
The last five years have just made it obvious enough that even the most ardent GOP apparatchiks here at FR should be able to see it.
With all due respect, such vote tallies are meaningless Kabuki theater. They showed their true regard for the Constitution not only back on January 6, but also via their efforts to “protect” Mueller, stymie repeal of Zerocare, and even going back in history (interstate highways, Amtrak and suchlike).
One thing the Bible warns us repeatedly is that there’s no hope in man apart from God. Pray we all heed that lesson soon.
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