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Joe Manchin Offers to Become an Independent amid Reconciliation Negotiations with Biden
Breitbart ^ | 10/21/2021 | Wendell Husebo

Posted on 10/21/2021 11:24:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday said he offered to change his party affiliation to an independent amid tough reconciliation negotiations with President Biden and the far-left.

Manchin told reporters he had offered Biden and the far-left to become an independent if he become an “embarrassment” to the Democrat Party.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: arizona; berniesanders; biden; independent; joemanchin; krystensinema; manchin; reconciliation; vermont; westvirginia
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To: HamiltonJay

‘This guy has eyes on the White House....’

dunno...he’ll be 77 in 2024; the electorate may well say ‘no old men for the country...’

plus he’s white, and that won’t help going forward, much as it should, it won’t...


21 posted on 10/21/2021 12:12:20 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He’ll be 77 in ‘24. Get real. But then Grassley might run. Getting weird.


22 posted on 10/21/2021 12:12:23 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: 1Old Pro

“We’re being played.”

Yes. They’re the actors in a well-rehearsed tableau, and we’re the gullible audience.


23 posted on 10/21/2021 12:12:46 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty. Don't forget his cohort)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bernie Sanders is an “Independent” Meaning, he’s a good little Marxist/Socialist/Communist.

Same as Manchin.


24 posted on 10/21/2021 12:15:14 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Stockholm Syndrome


25 posted on 10/21/2021 12:19:44 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Me being a moderate centrist Democrat if that causes you a problem, let me know, and I’d switch to be an independent, but I’d still be caucusing with Democrats,” he said.

His comment from yesterday almost suggested the opposite. I paraphrase: "I am a hard-core West Virginia Democrat, although that may be different than a Washington Democrat." I almost wondered whether he was giving a small reminder that there is no national "Democratic Party." There are 50 state parties, a national convention, and two floor caucuses in Congress. And there is no reason he can't remain a member of the West Virginia Democratic Party (so no one can say he betrayed his constituents) but leave the Democratic caucus in the Senate.

26 posted on 10/21/2021 12:26:15 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He's not going to get The Squat and their 50-some-truly-odd Communists to back down off $3.5T. This is kabuki at this point.

That said, Manchin actually going to come off looking fairly good about 13 months from now when The Squat freaks out, and I mean weave-shredding shrieking freakout, after the House flips and they are denied any of the 3 Minority House leadership positions, when the Donkey moderates seize control with Nanzi/Hoyer/Clyburn's exit.

27 posted on 10/21/2021 12:31:55 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: monkeyshine
"Actually I think are already 2 Independents in the Senate, Sanders being one and the other may also be from Vermont too. "

Close! Anus King Jr. (I) is from Maine.

28 posted on 10/21/2021 12:33:44 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: StAnDeliver

Well he’s got the perfect name for a Senator.


29 posted on 10/21/2021 12:34:50 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: StAnDeliver

Ah you got me. That’s not his real name LOL. I had to look it up because it would be too funny.

Maine is almost the farthest point from my home so I have no idea what the politics are like over there. Probably the same as they are here though. I think Hawaii is closer.


30 posted on 10/21/2021 12:38:13 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why not simply become a RINO Republican as he’d be more conservative than most and that would flip the Senate to Republicans? Republicans should offer him committee chair or whatever it takes; he should say yes so long as Republican majority leader is no McConnell.


31 posted on 10/21/2021 12:39:09 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He’s a politician. Is it really “switching” in his mind if he leave the Rats and becomes an Independent? He may have been saying BS to actually going full bore Republican.


32 posted on 10/21/2021 12:53:06 PM PDT by Hurricane Andrew (There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.)
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To: monkeyshine
"Ah you got me. That’s not his real name LOL."

Apologies! That's my pet name for him in the Sunday Morning Talk Show threads -- he always does Steponallofus when no A-listers are available. I think he has a 2nd apartment in the ABC DC green room.

"George, Trump had to cancel."

"Wake up Sen. King!"

33 posted on 10/21/2021 12:56:24 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: Maris Crane

They should just switch parties and be done with it. They won’t be any less liberal than McConnell or the rest of the RINO scum.


34 posted on 10/21/2021 1:05:11 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Likely Fake News.


35 posted on 10/21/2021 1:22:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: thepatriot1

No problem, they have four Republicans that are Democrats . . .


36 posted on 10/21/2021 1:26:46 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: AnthonySoprano

why not?

Brutus did... when he stabbed Caesar to death


37 posted on 10/21/2021 1:43:26 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Baffles me why any moderate democrat stays with that party but now that I think of it there aren’t any real moderate democrats. All of them ending up voting yay to the most insane crap


38 posted on 10/21/2021 2:06:24 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: brownsfan

There is no over-the-top margin for cheating. The outrageous cheating to put Biden over the top is unfathomable, impossible to accept, and a mortal wound to our Republic. Thus, since the democrats got away with that, there is no level of cheating that is unacceptable.


39 posted on 10/21/2021 2:09:34 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For a while West VA had started down the conservative road, I thought. But, now they elect another liberal commie dimocratic senator. I guess they are going back to the KKK Byrd days of liberals.


40 posted on 10/21/2021 2:15:27 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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