Posted on 10/04/2021 2:41:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Pity Chuck Schumer, with AOC sniffing around for the scent of primary vulnerability while the Murder Turtle across the aisle is tenting his fingers, whispering “Excellent,” as the majority leader publicly nadlers himself. He’s got Nancy Pelosi jumping into the race for Most Senile Senior in the Dem leadership, alleged moderates terrified of 2022, the bro-betrothing weirdos of the progressive left, and a desiccated old freak in the White House who intervened and only made things worse. But Chucky’s real problem is the Wonder Twins, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who are driving him nuts with their stubborn refusal to commit ritual suicide to make the NY-SF axis happy.
And it’s only going to get worse. Pass the popcorn and cabernet, because this is gonna be fun.
For these two, this New Deal is No Deal, at least not as currently constituted. They are doing yeoman’s work taking the heat for a bunch of other senators who likewise have no desire to walk Pelosi’s plank next year by voting for the zillion-dollar printing press green-light that is the reconciliation infrastructure bill. Of course, this atrocity is only about infrastructure in the loose sense that every single thing in the Dems’ letter to Santa is “infrastructure.” Free money to deadbeats is infrastructure. Open borders is infrastructure. So, I guess, the middle fingers of Sinema and Manchin are infrastructure too.
Now that’s some infrastructure we can get behind.
Adding to the hilarity was Bernie Sanders, the cute n’ loveable curmudgeon who embraces an ideology that butchered 100 million people in the last century, and his attempt at socialist math. He railed on Twitter that those two senators should not be able to hold up what 48 senators want. You know, I did go to a California public school so my knowledge of math and civics is questionable, but doesn’t that mean that there are 52 senators against and only 48 for? I’ve been hearing a lot from the Dems about MUH DEMOCRACY lately, but I am pretty sure 48 does not beat 52. Oh well, forget it. Counting is probably a construct of the hegemonic paradigm imposed by white supremacy, patriarchy, and…I dunno…transphobia.
Still, for now, they are holding out. They have no desire to lose their elections by passing this inflation-bait fiasco, at least not at the $3.5 trillion number the commie girls in the House decreed was the compromise minimum. West Virginia, America’s sanest state, was something like Trump +39 last November, so runaway patriotic and pro-American the Dems didn’t even bother trying to cheat there. Yeah, sure, Manchin is looking to please Schumer.
Same with Sinema. Arizona, where Crusty “won” by a squeaker (though there was not a squeak in the mainstream media about how the audit showed iffy ballots far exceeding the alleged margin), is not a blue state. It’s really not even a purple state. And Sinema does not want to be kicked to the curb like henpecked Schumer concubine Mark Kelly is going to be next year. With her bizarre fashions, frisky bisexuality, and DC cuteness, she is at least entertaining instead of being a tiresome, pinch-faced scold like the Frosty Wine Women of Wokeness who make up most of her colleagues. Arizona loves its mavericks. Sinema is a maverick while submissive Mark Kelly is doing dishes in an apron while the men go outside to fire up a stogie.
They will vote for something, maybe. But it will be their dollar number and it will be a lot less than what the commie caucus demanded. Schumer will be humiliated and try to play it off as a victory. The media will swoon. And Manchin and Sinema will gleefully let their states know that they got the Pelosi to lick their feet.
Sinema will go on and probably hold her seat as long as she wants. The Dems can’t touch her, despite the howling of the blue checks, because she’s Number 50.
But Manchin may be playing another game. He’s a Democrat in a state where Democrats are as beloved as sewer rats. He’s got a problem in 2024 no matter what he does. He barely made it last time. What is his game?
He’s got to switch parties.
That’s his only way out. Every Republican in WV knows the GOP nomination means the seat in three years. He’ll get a real challenge, and even if he goes full Rorke’s Drift on the reconciliation bill, homeboy is cooked Wonder Bread smeared with Indian gal-free Land O’Lakes butter.
He has got to be a Republican to have a chance of surviving. But the Dems he abandons will be outraged, and a lot of Republicans won’t trust him. He’s got to be driven out of the Dems, to depart more in sorrow than in anger. And maybe his relentless provocation of the dumb libs is the give him the opportunity to do just that.
Imagine him, face drawn and sad, stepping up to the mic and intoning:
“It has become clear that the Democrat Party no longer wants me. So I will continue to represent the values and people of West Virginia as a Republican, or maybe as an independent caucusing with the Republicans – it depends on the polling.”
And behind him on the podium, Mitch McConnell is smiling.
Come on over, Joe.
Lol. Good read for first thing in the morning.
Kurt is an artist.
“They will vote for something, maybe. But it will be their dollar number and it will be a lot less than what the commie caucus demanded”
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And that, without saying, it is the game: pass something, get the new federal programs (departments) in place, along with Federalized elections, and restore the money in later bills. Once done, America is irrevocably a Socialist or Communist country - the Constitutional Republic is officially dead.
All these two Rats are doing is grandstanding, while appearing heroes to many, because they are stopping the spending of vast amounts of money, money which will have to be spent later to finance the new one party Socialist America.
They love their Republican twins Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, but can't stand it when their own act out the same way.
RE: Manchin...
He got elected because West Virginians liked him as a governor. However, that was 11 years ago and he's now got a longer career as a Senator to defend. His ties to the national Democrat party bloc are going to be a tough swallow to a state that rejects it.
-PJ
Great article. Wow…
To hear the Leftists whine about Manchin is hilarious. What are they gonna do - primary him from the Left in (looks at sheet) West By God Virginia? ROTF!
They have NOTHING to threaten him with.
“He (Bernie) railed on Twitter that those two senators should not be able to hold up what 48 senators want. You know, I did go to a California public school so my knowledge of math and civics is questionable, but doesn’t that mean that there are 52 senators against and only 48 for?”
Kurt STILL doesn’t get it. The 50 Republicans, to a person, are NON-HUMANS - they’re parasites, they don’t exist as human beings in Bernie’s mind (along with us Trump supporters), and like the 100 Million people before him that were on the ‘wrong’ side of Communism, they’d already be dead, in his world.
Pass the popcorn and cabernet, because this is gonna be fun.
I like your stuff Kurt, but this is not fun. The survival of the republic is hanging by the slimmest margin on the votes of two members of the enemy party. In probably the most corrupt town on the face of planet the end of October is a lifetime to “persuade” these two to come around and “get their minds right”.
The elephant in the room is what is barely mentioned. It’s not the money, it’s the Marxist wet dream easter eggs implanted in these two bills that will forever change the country and enshrine the commie party in power for good.
He thinks Kelly in Az. is a goner next year. Not so sure.
Don’t trust the two Lucy’s. They are negotiating.
This is kabucki theater, all predicable and all a problem. Manchin and Sinema will vote for a scaled down version of the 3.5 trillion, say 1.5 to 2.0 trillion and even worse it may create a law w/o long term funding - a colossal mistake. For those in Rio Linda, it's like I go to my wife and say will you vote on a new Ferrari, she says no way we can only afford a KIA. Then we end up buying a Porsche.
PIF, you got it nailed, we get screwed again.
we get screwed again.
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Name of the game and mostly why they hated DJT : they were not being allowed to screw the people more - taking away their regulations really hurt.
I hope he’s gone.
So I had a case of the Wuhan Red Death a couple weeks ago. While I was sick, I moved into our extra bedroom which used to be my son’s room.
Hanging on the wall is a Robotics Scout Merit Badge that had flown in space. It’s framed along with a NASA certificate of authenticity and a photo of the Shuttle Crew, led by the jerk Kelly.
I wanted to get well as soon as possible so as not to even be in the same room with that moron’s picture.
The House has a prog/radical Marxist problem; the Senate has a “moderate” problem in that Enema KNOWS AZ. She is very, very shrewd.
I warned everyone about her two years ago. She learned from John McTurd how to walk the middle line that appeals to Arizonians. She will vote against spending bills and every other prog bill so that she can build up goodwill amongst Arizonians to vote FOR uber-left judges and abortion.
She is so good at this that I think she will have this senate seat longer than Carl Hayden if she wants it.
That’s right up there with the pink-haired wokers moniker of John Kennedy.
Ping!
The real “Squid” Game.
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