Manchin today: "I've never changed my mind on the filibuster." (Let's look at his website)

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[onecaliberal]

2. That was before he was paid off. Who paid him?

[monkeyman1]

12. maybe moscow mitch ? never know in day & age !

[WHITT]

3. He Just Can't Stop Lying

All that corporate money is like a narcotic, and he can't kick the addiction.

[WillUSAF]

11. THIS RIGHT HERE!!

[LonePirate]

4. He's lying. He changed the filibuster last month for the debt ceiling.

I'll let everyone decide for themselves why he is OK with changing the filibuster rules for the debt ceiling but not for voting rights.

[WA-03 Democrat]

6. Do not believe

your lying eyes!

It's all relative to who is asking.

Either for the right to vote or you are not. He is not

[Tickle]

5. In 2013 he didn't

vote for the filibuster. Actions not words

[Shermann]

7. I'm not changing my mind on the filibuster because I've never changed my mind on the filibuster

Sounds like an anti-progressive circular argument to me.

[Andy823]

8. I wonder sometimes

if maybe Manchin has some skeletons in his closet that the republicans know about.

[Gore1FL]

9. In fairness, maybe he was lying before and always felt this way.

We know he is a liar, which just simply don't know when.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. He's behaving as though

somebody has their claws on his delicate parts. Seriously.


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[monkeyman1]

13. republican taliban plant ! about as dumb as a house plan too !

[lapucelle]

14. That excerpt is from a 2013 editorial from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.

There's a link to the editorial on Manchin's website, but Manchin never said those words. I'm always wary when screenshots of decontextualized excerpts are posted without links. The tweet is misleading at best.

'No Labels' | Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 18, 2013

The No Labels movement advocates a number of common-sense measures, including requiring Congress to work five days a week instead of the normal Monday through Thursday schedule; demanding an annual address to Congress on the fiscal condition of the nation; withholding congressional pay if lawmakers fail to pass a budget; forcing an up-or-down vote on presidential appointments within 90 days of a nomination; and changing the rules for filibuster in the Senate that allow the minority party to stall the process on bills and nominations that have fewer than 60 votes, according to an earlier Associated Press report.

All of these are good ideas that should be implemented sooner than later. Manchin and Huntsman are to be commended for making an effort to break the toxic partisan divide that is crippling Washington.

https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/no-labels-bluefield-daily-telegraph

Link to the original source:

https://www.bdtonline.com/news/local_news/manchin-huntsman-push-no-labels-movement-in-congress/article_955fa17f-bbe7-500f-a756-d155f47fd696.html