Manchin has not only taken more campaign contributions from oil, gas and coal companies than any other senator (as well as dividends from his own coal company), he has one of the largest war chests from all big American corporations.
If the Democratic party had any capacity to discipline its lawmakers or hold them accountable (if pigs could fly), it would at least revoke Manchin’s chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
To continue to allow this crucial position to be occupied by the man who has single-handedly blocked one of the last opportunities to save the Earth is a thumb in the eye of the universe.
I’m told the Democrats don’t dare take this step for fear Manchin would leave the Democratic party and switch his allegiance to the Republicans.
Why exactly would this be so terrible? Manchin already acts like a Republican.
50/50 becomes 49/50? Oh noes.
What happened to “reaching across the aisle?”
It is time for Senator Manchin to become a Republican!
JUST DO IT, SENATOR!
How on earth does this idiot have an economics degree?
Reich has one of the worst cases of “little man syndrome” I have ever seen. And, his relentless banging away along Dem party line tropes seems to be empowering.
Poor little jerk.
Manchin lost me by voting for the gun bill, just like Sinema did. Whatever good he provides is fine, but I’m not a fan.
Reich reminds me of Bill Krystol. They were decent guys in the nineties and became surly maniacs as they aged.
Be gone Shorty, you have no power here.
Why exactly would this be so terrible? Manchin already acts like a Republican.
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Doesn’t even come close to making up for the number of Assistant Democrats in R jerseys.
NINETEEN of them voted for the Biden Boondoggle Bill.
Some of the same ones who voted for the gun control bill.
We’d like to kick Collins, Murkowski and Romney out, too.
Can we trade Manchin for a couple of the usual suspect RINOs we don’t like?
No, it’s time to kick the Democratic party out of the Democratic party.
The new party is full-bore anti-American communist, unlike the old party that had at least some love for the USA as founded.
Fir some reason, Robert Reich thinks that the US Senate is exists only to rubber-stamp whatever the President feels like doing. I guess Mr. Reich was absent day his Social Studies teacher covered the topic.
Manchin’s probably already thinking in that direction. He likes his houseboat on the Potomac and his Maserati.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/joe-manchin-west-virginia-democratic-party/
Manchin does the same thing for the demonrat party (and for America, too!) when he thwarts the demonrat plans for US.
Manchin was hired by voters. Short of criminal activity,
it’s up to them.
“Raising taxes on corporations would not fuel inflation”.
Corporations don’t pay taxes dumbass, corporations COLLECT taxes - from “consumers”. Leftists are ignorant of basic economics. Here also note well he is conflating “higher prices” with monetary inflation.
They would very much prefer their carefully grown, cultivated low information voting bloc not consider too carefully whom is fvcking them over, and why.
Inflation is always and ever a monetary phenomenon. Fewer and fewer people are fooled by the parlor tricks the “experts” are putting out there. (this also explains why they are ratcheting everything up to eleventy)
Don’t dare disagree with the ruling party elite.. you will be cast out or go to prison.
Ya know... the dems do things this way: don’t ask, just do it. They don’t dare try to stop us.. We rule..
I hope we don’t take him. The Republican party has been infiltrated with so many Democrats there’s no distinction.
The hilarious thing is these idiots think that will help them somehow. Its almost as if they don’t realize Manchin represents a state that Trump won by about FORTY PERCENT.
Manchin IS representing the people of West Virginia when he holds up the more radical plans of the Democrats.
By the way, if they kick Manchin out, then the Republicans hold the majority in the Senate. Duh.