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And Now Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Arrives to Deliver the Final Death Blow to Dems' Filibuster Plan
TOWNHALL ^ | 01/06/2022

Posted on 01/06/2022 8:01:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has been the one to pretty much deliver the bad news to Democrats concerning their plan to nuke the filibuster. He’s already seen as public enemy number one on Build Back Better after he went on national television to announce he’s killing it because it’s an expensive communist venture. It’s a 50-50 Senate.

I don’t get what Chuck is trying to do here. Is it to ward off a potential primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Maybe—but she’ll be coming after you no matter what, Chuck. That’s her character. Period.

You could pass Build Back Better-plus, and she would still primary you if that was her plan. Yet, Sen. Krysten Sinema is the other party in this ongoing drama among Senate Democrats. They can’t afford to lose one vote.

Even if Manchin signs onto this plan, and I don’t think he will, then Democrats still fail thanks to Sinema.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buildbackbetter; filibuster; senate; sinema
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1 posted on 01/06/2022 8:01:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I still don’t trust them, they are whores still haggling over the price.


2 posted on 01/06/2022 8:03:11 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The RATS can all kiss my red, white and blue ass. BBB my ass. There slogan is also MAGA. MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY! The bottom feeding bastards. Damn them all.


3 posted on 01/06/2022 8:06:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: dfwgator

He knows it will end his career if he votes for it. So he is trying to get a parachute add on, but he is too conservative for the liberals and they don’t want him for life, only for a vote.


4 posted on 01/06/2022 8:07:24 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: dfwgator

You are right as usual. Unfortunately, our RINO whores operate in the shadows unlike the Dim whores who operate under the streetlights.


5 posted on 01/06/2022 8:08:26 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: SeekAndFind

Hope someone is staying alert to the razor close math—Sen. Rob Portman (R-Somewhere) is currently out with the COVID.


6 posted on 01/06/2022 8:10:02 AM PST by Skybird
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To: dfwgator

Good analogy.


7 posted on 01/06/2022 8:10:17 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: dfwgator

I would not be surprised if the faux-conservative CanuckTed joined his fellow leftists.


8 posted on 01/06/2022 8:13:49 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: SeekAndFind
I don’t get what Chuck is trying to do here.

If he means Chuck Schumer I'll explain it to him. It's not complicated. He wants totalitarian government with himself and his ilk at the top. To hell with you little people.

9 posted on 01/06/2022 8:23:13 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When the Dems lose the Senate, Manchin and Sinema will switch to the Republican party because, by then, it will be OBVIOUS that the Democrat Party is DEAD!


10 posted on 01/06/2022 8:27:38 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t trust any DC politicians, especially not Democrats. Something will pass, eventually.


11 posted on 01/06/2022 8:32:36 AM PST by Golden Eagle (What's in YOUR injection?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Author Vespa is correct in the sense of the damage done to his senate comrades, but they’re staring down the end of D majority in Schumer’s lifetime come November.

They have no option other than the Voting reforms legislation which might give them a chance in November with all the vote rigging contained within. the only path to that is by busting the filibuster. Doomed to failure ? Probably, but what else can be done ? Nothing.

Damn the squishy Ds, go for it...so.thinks D leadership.


12 posted on 01/06/2022 8:39:49 AM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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Chuckie should go forward w/ the filibuster plan on the assumption that a desiccated old pervert polling on a par with the desirability of having cholera is not going to drag down all the Dem marginal seats.......25 Dems have already jumped the sinking ship.

Hope springs eternal for the left......it IS possible that a midterm election with a massively unpopular president of the majority party will go well for the incumbents.

And BTW, it’s also possible that Nanzi Pelosi will be voted Miss America, Kamala Harris will enter a nunnery .....and Ted Lieu will win the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the fields of string theory and quantum mechanics.


13 posted on 01/06/2022 8:42:52 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder which Republican turncoats we have to be on the lookout for at the critical hour


14 posted on 01/06/2022 8:45:08 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

All of them.


15 posted on 01/06/2022 9:00:56 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
"He knows it will end his career if he votes for it. So he is trying to get a parachute add on"

Having lived in WV, Manchin is safe in re-election however he votes. That said, given the mothers milk of the WV economy is federal spending, Manchin and Capito(R) will both cave once they extract their price.

16 posted on 01/06/2022 9:38:19 AM PST by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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That said, given the mothers milk of the WV economy is federal spending,

Judging by all of the things in WV named for Sheets Byrd.

17 posted on 01/06/2022 9:39:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“It’s a 50-50 Senate.”
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It’s actually a 48-2-50 Senate. Party breakdown in the U.S. Senate is actually 48 democrats, 2 independents and 50 republicans. It would seem, using simple math, that the republicans have the majority.


18 posted on 01/06/2022 10:15:49 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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It would seem, using simple math, that the republicans have the majority.

Not with Mitt Romney or Murkowski.

19 posted on 01/06/2022 10:16:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lakecumberlandvet

RE: Party breakdown in the U.S. Senate is actually 48 democrats, 2 independents and 50 republicans.

Bernie Sanders is one of the two so-called independents. Which makes him IN PRACTICE, a Democrat. Heck, this so-called “Independent” ran for President as a Democrat.


20 posted on 01/06/2022 10:18:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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