Bob Kerrey's saying it: It's the 50 repugs causing the huge kerfuffle.

[elleng]

(Lawrence show.)

[shanti]

1. Telling it like it is! n/t

[Budi]

2. But but No one's stalking the R's houses & offices. Cameras rolling & soc media on fire!

So it can't be them. Because we'd all hear about that, & that's how media knows who the bad guys are.

How come they never go after R's like they do Dem Leaders?
Must be because they don't see the R's as the 'problem'.
I guess.

All I can figure from that.
*****

Bob Kerry is absolutely correct.
The R's have had a pretty easy run lately, with all the cameras & distracting mass messaging chasing Manchin & Sinema, & the WH disarray & 'Where's Kamala' & Pelosi & Biden's polls &; Democrats!, & ..... ya know!
Seems like someones got their targets everywhere but on the real threat, the 50 R's.

HELLO MEDIA??

[moondust]

3. Lost cause.

Are they not basically Turtle's hostages who stand to lose their place/power/assignments/money/donors/support/privileges and ultimately their seats if they "stray"?

[Beaverhausen]

4. So?

We still need to hold them accountable for destroying the country for political purposes.

I thought Kerrey made a lot of sense.

[moondust]

6. Hold them accountable, yes.

But some including myself don't expect that to change them.

[doc03]

5. Him and Lawrence also say the way the Senate is supposed to work you

don't put everything in one package and never vote until you get the votes to pass it. They said to put it up for a vote and if Manchin or anyone votes no you do whatever it takes to amend the bill to get the votes. The Democrats have made Manchin
the enemy while not one Republican is supporting it. Then we all know they will go back home and take credit for it.

[GoCubsGo]

7. It's about time somebody said it.

I hope we hear it a lot more, and everywhere by a lot more Dems.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Manchin has certainly taken the heat off the R's.

And made the BBB all about Dem failure.
Kerry is trying to balance the story again.

[Salviati]

9. Ironically...

I think that eliminating the filibuster would do more to restore bipartisanship than anything else. If these bills were going to come out and have a floor vote, and have a good chance of actually passing in some form, than some of the slightly less insane republicans a) might not want to have that 'no' vote on their record, and b) might want to have some say in what goes into the bill.