Just gotta say this now

[bluestarone]

With everything the QTHUGLICON controlled states are doing to our country, plus what the House and Senate QTHUGS doing what they are doing, How can Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema NOT want to do EVERYTHING they can to save our democracy?? I just fucking don't get it!! Sorry for the rant , but come on give me a fucking break!!

[markie]

1. sometimes I think

people in positions of power sitting in Congress are unable to see/understand the "realities" of how things work out here... frustrating as hell

[RANDYWILDMAN]

8. I feel like this should be an OP

Most of them sadly don't get it on many levels.

I personally would like to thank my senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley for being decent people and understanding that most of us do not live anything close to the lives of a senator.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Couldn't agree more.

If we are aware of it, how the hell can they not be?

One can't help wondering about their motives.

[brush]

5. Agreed. Senators with their 6-year term and good salary are...

pretty isolated from the realities of life of the average American, even more now since the pandemic has beset the rest of us.

People are suffering and ditching the filibuster, which the republicans are itching to use on Biden's agenda of major bills coming down the road—infrastructure, alternate energy, voting rights etc., should be obvious for them to see but they prefer to play the "I care about the minority" game.

I don't think they're that naive or plain stupid. IMO they like being in the balance-of-power seats and have both parties having to court them for their vote.

They both need to get on board with their party and save the economy and get everyone back to work.

[dutch777]

3. I am sure most on DU share your frustration. Manchin et. al. vote the way they think they serve

their voters in whatever state or district. (And will get them re-elected). Hard to get around that short of getting a much more robust Dem majority where the Sinemas and Manchins are optional to winning a vote.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Good leadership requires putting aside personal ego and motive.

[Walleye]

6. At least they can wipe the smug looks off their faces.

[stopdiggin]

7. 49 Senators voted against the final bill

None of them were Democrats.
That's the take-away I'm interested in.
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[11 Bravo]

9. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly cynical ...

(usually after another egregiously bigoted or just plain stupid bit of Republican ratfuckery), it occurs to me that were it not for the freeing of millions of enslaved human beings, the Civil War was pretty much a pyrrhic victory.

[JuJuChen]

10. ...

[abqtommy]

11. It's not required that we understand the phucking phascist ratphuckers. All we have to do

is get rid of them!