Posted on 07/14/2018 8:00:24 PM PDT by bitt
“Or, Schumer gave him permission to act tough, but will find some grounds to vote no.”
Manchin will vote yes, just like he did for Gorsuch ... Manchin is desperately trying to get re-elected in WV, and ultra-red state, and no matter how the Dems vote, Kavanaugh will be approved ... several other seriously threatened Dem Senators will vote yes as well ... self-preservation tops “resistance” with this bunch ...
“And, then if re-elected, will fall back into line with the DEMS. “
there’s no question about that ... one can only hope that West Virginians wise-up about Manchin ...
YES!
I hope he loses his seat, but I doubt it.
WVA seems to like him, (a lot).
His daughter is the person who raised the cost of the EpiPen to where it became unaffordable for most who need it. At least that’s the story I remember.
His voting record will tell you why he’s a Democrat. This isn’t Zell Miller voting 90% Conservative. Manchin votes very left wing. His American Conservative Union rating in 2017 was an 8(!)
An 8.
92% left-wing.
His daughter was the pharmaceutical executive who raised the price of epipens to $600 after a scam that involved the Clinton Foundation passed a law in NJ that every single school district had to provide epipens to their schools. Allegedly, a witness who was about to testify against the Clinton Foundation and others in this scam was killed when her house blew up just recently.
When push comes to shove, these guys will fall into line behind Chuckie like ducklings following their mother. They’ve got a spine? Gimme a break! When did that ever play with sniveling ‘rats?
Oh, thank you. I seemed to recall a scandal ...
Manchin knows that Kavanaugh already has the votes. So he and Schumer put on a show, to get Minchin reelect.
WV shouldn't fall for it.
"Look, we can defeat this nominee if we all vote against AND pick off Collins or Paul or Murkowsky. But we'd lose up to 3 Senate seats which means we are doomed when RBG or any of 'our' Justices dies or retires. The real political knife fight isn't over this guy, it's over the next nominee.
So, let's lose the battle to win the war. Manchin, you talk tough against me to win political re-election points. Donnelly and Heitkamp - you're free to vote "yea" to win re-election. I'll remain a looney on MSNBC and we'll send out word via Journolist and other back channels that they need to make it LOOK like we're against this guy, but not too much otherwise the Antifa wing of our Useful Idiot brigade will hurt us in November.
Yea, we will lose this confirmation (the guy may be a stealth Dem a-la Roberts anyway...thankfully he isn't a Gorsuch) but we will keep our 3 seats on the bubble. That means we keep it 51-49 so we can pummel the next nominee (even if we don't know who it is), stop MAGA legislation from 2019 into to 2020 so we can be strong in running Kamala Harris for President."
Good for Joe Manchin...
+!!!!!
Manchin is up for re-election?
Come to the Republican side, Joe.
So he votes (D) after November?
Well, WTF ever.
Once we have SCOTUS secured we continue to march on the rest of our agenda, and further gains in SCOTUS, as well, federal judiciary.
Furthermore, his vote won’t matter much after November or 2020 anyway.
We will be the majority.
Chuck-E likes the taste of defication
ROTFLMAO!!!
OMG
LOL!
I believe that turned out to be fake news. The explosion was real, but there was no connection to any witness. Someone made that up and it was re-blogged on many sites.
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