Joe Manchin is now a certified loon

[wellst0nev0ter]

If he's going to support HR1, it needs to make trumpanzees happy? Has he been buried under a rock all this time?

Link to tweet

[Bleacher Creature]

1. That's like saying that any civil rights legislation needs to make racists happy. NT

[mzmolly]

2. WTF?

[SoonerPride]

3. I just sighed so many times in a row I passed out.

good gravy

[Haggard Celine]

4. Did anybody worry about what the Democrats thought

about any issue at all for the last five years? I didn't think so.

[Botany]

5. That is like saying after seeing the attempted coup/riot on 1/6/21 that democrats need to work ...

... with the party that was behind that violence.

[lame54]

6. They weren't happy when they were in charge of everything...

The only thing that will make them happy is an all out Russian attack on the Whitehouse

[Bettie]

15. It would make them happy if everyone but

them was dead.

Nah, then they'd fight among themselves over which brand of evangelical religion would be ascendant.

[BornADemocrat]

7. Dumbest thing I've heard in a long time

He really doesn't have the stomach for this politics game.

What a wimp.

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. He'd be at the Beaches of Normandy

And he'd be the first to ask the Germans if they're cool with the landing

[CaptainTruth]

13. +1

[madaboutharry]

9. I am beginning to think someone has dirt on him.

[belpejic]

18. I concur

Someone has his nuts in a vise, and that someone really doesn't support unions (which get a big push in the infrastructure bill), voting rights, or both.

* Edited to include, as someone mentioned below, campaign finance as well.

[totodeinhere]

34. I doubt it or he would not have voted to convict Trump during both impeachment

trials.

[brush]

10. What world does Manchin live in? It's certainly not this one.

I'm so tired of the impossible conditions he's been setting on any issue to get his cooperation. What a republican in sheep clothing.

[Bettie]

17. He must want something really, really big

and he's doubling and tripling down to get it.

Maybe he wants his horrible daughter to head the FDA or something.

[brush]

33. I didn't know he had a daughter. Does she have any experience in running a large agency?

[Bettie]

36. She was the CEO of a pharma company....

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/manchin-defends-bresch-mylan-epipen-price/index.html

(CNN) —
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin defended his daughter in an interview Tuesday after the pharmaceutical company she leads raised the price of EpiPens – a move that thrust the father-daughter pair into the center of the political debate over healthcare costs and drug prices.

Bresch became a target of derision over the summer after a nearly 500% increase in the cost of the lifesaving allergy drug EpiPen, which is one of the company’s signature products. The drug, which cost around $100 in 2009, shot up to as much as $600.

The move sparked outrage from parents with children who rely on the drug, and even prompted comments from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the need to rein in rising drug costs. One of those parents was actually a colleague of Manchin – Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar – and multiple members of Congress called for hearings on the spiking cost.

In the interview, Manchin suggested that the controversy was a “blessing in disguise” because it would lead to greater attention to the challenge of rising drug costs.

[brush]

37. God, she sounds like a republican in hiding too.

[TwilightZone]

35. He lives in a state where people expect him to act in a bipartisan manner.

That's why they elected him in the first place and why they have reelected him. In fact, it's the primary reason we have a Democratic senator in a state Trump won by 40 points.

Should he do what his constituents want? Clearly many don't think so. Personally, I wish he'd get on board with all major legislation that we're trying to pass, but I understand why he does what he does.

[EndlessWire]

38. Sucks to be him then

because he will be remembered as a closet Republican. He's an obstacle in the way of Democracy. He's completely selfish, and supports fascists.

I don't want to live under fascism, and don't want to see what they will do to us if they ever get back in power. And, I am completely sick of Joe Manchin and his obstructionist ways. Wasn't the wife's job enough?

I want to change his first name from Joe. Something else. Joe is for OUR guy.

[zaj]

11. HR1 is hugely popular with Republicans

"Republicans are concerned about the bipartisan popularity of the campaign finance provisions of HR1, the voting rights package recently passed by the House.


According to the New Yorker, which obtained a recording of a private meeting between a policy adviser to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and leaders of many conservative groups, public messaging against those provisions is not going well.

Specifically, support for the bill’s measures forcing more disclosures of secret donors was so broad that a senior operative from the Koch network advised just killing it in Congress rather than trying to turn the tide of public opinion. Currently, S1, HR1’s Senate complement, would face the 60-vote threshold of the filibuster and seems unlikely to garner Republican support.

Kyle McKenzie, the research director for the Koch-run advocacy group Stand Together, reportedly said during the meeting that people found the argument that the bill would stop billionaires from buying elections extremely compelling.

“Unfortunately, we’ve found that that is a winning message, for both the general public and also conservatives,” he reportedly said."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republican-hr1-s1-warnock-koch

[SharonClark]

12. Manchin confuses republican voters

with the GQP in Congress. I understand HR1 has broad support with public.

[Blue Owl]

14. Joe Manchin is special...

So fucking special...

[world wide wally]

16. Have they made you happy, Joe?

[Diamond_Dog]

19. If we could get statehood for D.C.

Then he could STFU

[onecaliberal]

20. So he is okay sitting in congress and doing NOTHING for the country. 1/2 million dead, but we can't

help. He doesn't say anything about that. This is sad, and it may get a hide but I am going to say it anyway. Based solely on his own statements Manchin seems to sympathize with those who stormed the capitol. The white grievance brigade.

[Peregrine Took]

21. He's really a republican -enjoys tormenting the "libs" just like MAGA.

I hope he is shunned by the Dems.

I wouldn't ride in the same elevator withhim.

[uponit7771]

22. Manchin, "we had an insurrection on January 6, because of voting, right? " NO!!!!!!!!

Fuck man !!!

1/6 happened because Putin's Whore CONTINUED to lie to people...

I'm holding out but I'm losing hope with this guy, that quote is a kick in the minerals.

[Vinca]

23. Well, considering Trump supporters don't seem to value democracy and a whole lot of them

are racists, I doubt they will ever be happy with anything. What a stupid fucking thing for Manchin to say. This guy has got to go the next time he's up. Surely there is a bona fide Democrat who can win a race in that state. Enough already.

[WarGamer]

24. well... the good news is I see clear sailing for the Infrastructure Bill.

And I bet we can get universal enhanced background checks for firearms.

Beyond those two things, I can't see much more being done with this Congress.

[wellst0nev0ter]

25. And if Manchin obstructs the voting bill

Say goodbye to Democratic governance for another decade.

I only wish Democrats had any semblance of urgency in 2009-2010 instead of defunding Acorn over a lie.

[WarGamer]

27. HR1 is dead Bill walking...

A bipartisan Bill would be ridiculous... full of nonsense.

[wellst0nev0ter]

28. It could have been passed

If Democrats just stick together like others often preach.

[WarGamer]

32. they'd have to kill the filibuster

And then Keep Manchin and Sinema in line...

And then survive a SCOTUS case.

What would Barf, GoodHair, Sleepy, Handmaiden, Scalito and JR do?

Mobilize for the GOTV effort of all time in 22.

[PortTack]

31. Oh not yet. Amy K told TRMS they have plan for passing HR1. She's not one to give lip service

Did not expound on the details, but I don’t think it’s dead. She obviously thinks manchin will come around, but he has to be shown the qgop isn’t going to work with Joe Biden

[EndlessWire]

39. Yeah

Why isn't it ever, "they should work with us?" Bipartisan, my a$$.

[Efilroft Sul]

26. We will lose control of Congress if he blocks the For the People Act.

Don't kid yourself thinking we'll pick up seats with all the voter suppression bills happening in the Republican-controlled states. It won't happen no matter how much you get out the vote with no election protection.

You don't play ball with assholes for the sake of "bipartisanship." You saw what happened January 6. You don't negotiate with terrorists.

[11 Bravo]

29. Had Manchin been around on January 1, 1863, he probably would have insisted ...

that the Ku Klux Klan sign off on the Emancipation Proclamation.

Because ... unity ... or something.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. I know the rules here, but F*CK, he makes me so angry.