Federal Agency Staffers Call for Manchin to Be Stripped of His Chairmanship

[AntivaxHunters]

I saw this one coming.

Federal Agency Staffers Call for Manchin to Be Stripped of His Chairmanship
https://truthout.org/articles/federal-agency-staffers-call-for-manchin-to-be-stripped-of-his-chairmanship/


Federal agency staffers and congressional office members have a message for President Joe Biden as his climate agenda languishes in the Senate: Ensure that fossil fuel industry ally Sen. Joe Manchin faces significant consequences for obstructing legislative progress.

In a letter first reported by The Lever on Monday, 165 staffers from federal health and environmental agencies and 80 congressional offices urged Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to “strip Senator Manchin of his chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, shut down the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project, eliminate the use of mountaintop removal and coal burning, and establish stringent water and air pollution standards.”

“This is an absolute emergency, and we want to work together, but since action to meet the scale of the crisis has yet to be delivered, we have no choice but to take matters into our own hands through non-violent direct action,” reads the letter, which staffers have signed with initials to protect themselves from potential retaliation.

The letter marks the second time in two weeks that staffers on Capitol Hill have voiced anger and frustration over the federal government’s inaction in the face of a climate emergency that’s only getting worse, as evidenced by out-of-control wildfires and the record-shattering heatwaves scorching much of the Northern Hemisphere.

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[SoCalDavidS]

1. Willing To Bet Any Amount Of Money That He Does Not Lose His Chairmanship nt

[padah513]

3. I agree

It's a 50-50 Senate right now, but strip him of his Chairmanship and it will be a 49-51 Republican majority guaranteed. He already threatened to do it.

[OnDoutside]

28. Not before January anyway...

[Bev54]

35. Of course not, they are not going to do anything to push Manchin into the arms of McConnell

The dems need to retain control of the senate to get judges through and to bring bills to the floor, even if it is just to get republicans on record. Unfortunately they are stuck with him until after the election. If they get a bigger majority they can then tell him to fuck off.

[mopinko]

2. and send him over to the ethics committee for a colonoscopy.

then blackmail his ass.

[Scrivener7]

15. We are waaaayyy too reticent about that blackmail thing. We ought to have gotten

at least 5 republiQan Senators into our pockets by now.

One photo of the druggy orgies Cawthorn told us about would do it.

[Pepsidog]

40. Yes. Hire the PI who followed Spitzer and find the dirt. I'm sure Rs won't suspect a thing.

[Scrivener7]

41. You know there are definitely at least 5 with stuff they don't want Mama and their

constituents to know.

[Mr.Bill]

4. Even if appropriate,

this will not be done until after the election.

[machoneman]

5. Joe should! Lyndon Johnson did similar things to reign in suspect D's by putting the big hurt...

..on their states $, projects, etc. He also I've read got the recalcitrant Dem an some R's too into the Oval Office, got in their faces and read them the riot act. He held nothing back including a lot of searing and threatening. He did get his way almost always I've read.

[Mr.Bill]

8. I liked LBJ's style,

but he was not working with a 50/50 Senate.

[onenote]

9. No he shouldn't.

LBJ had a safe majority. Manchin walks out on us and no more Biden judges get confirmed. VP Harris has had to break more 50-50 ties than any VP since the 1830s and the third most in history (in only two years).

So, once again, no.

[The Wizard]

34. LBJ knew

where the bodies were buried.

[NYC Liberal]

38. Johnson had 68 seats in the Senate and almost 300 in the House.

It's easy to make threats when you have supermajorities.

[Rebl2]

6. Do that

and he will become the republican we know he is or become an independent that votes with republicans most of the time.

[orangecrush]

18. "Will become"

[Rebl2]

20. OK

[Jakes Progress]

22. Laugh all you want. What matters now is what side of aisle he sits on.

Reality bites.

[Autumn]

7. I'm on board with that.

[Jakes Progress]

26. Are you on board for a republican majority in the Senate?

manchin can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, but the D by his name has purpose. Put two or three more D's in the senate and manchin will be less than a foot note - ready to be primaries out.

[Autumn]

43. I doubt he would be willing to give up his chairs, he should know he gives the pukes a majority

they will kick him to the curb. The threat alone should keep him in line. I'm of the opinion that the coming election will make Manchin irrelevant.

[Jakes Progress]

44. A man as evil as manchin working with a shit like mcconnel

will have worked out a deal beforehand.

Indeed, I feel sure that the two have met and signed a pact already. One reason manchin keeps pissing off the Dems, is that he wants them to cut him loose because the deal he has with turtle is better than he has now.

Never underestimate how conniving and greedy these hypocrites are. After all they are ready to destroy the country and the constitution to get more power.

[Brainfodder]

10. Long ready for JM to be gone, and now DGAFF about the consequences, appears too dirty AF for me.

Most of congress appears dirty AF to me, instant lockstep agreements about shitty "make libs cry" stuff is just a bunch of rich assholes doing shit caz they can and not even caring 1iota about consequences?

It's like they are all 10 years old mentally and listen to strict daddy and follow without much pushback at all on most things?

[tritsofme]

11. Incredibly silly. Manchin can strip Democrats of the majority.

[Rebl2]

19. Absolutely

[Demsrule86]

12. I really despise Truth.org... help Republican almost always.

[Samrob]

13. The fossil fuel industry OWNS Manchin. The care only about their bottom line. Their miners be damn

Classic voting against your own best interest . Just think about what new green industry could have been brought to W.VA. had HRC won in 2016. Lots of waste land to build solar panel plants and even semi-conductors. But I guess that would mean an influx of a fairly skilled worker base and they have been told to dislike educated people in W.VA.

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. Well, now that's something you don't see every day...

Or even ever.

I’ve heard of constituents holding sit-ins in legislators offices, but staffers?

Shall we slam them as out of touch, unrealistic, unicorn seeking left wingers, or maybe do they have a point to make?

I hope Schumer follows their requests (maybe after November after we add a couple of non-obstructing senators).

[calimary]

16. We need to vote this fall like there's no tomorrow.

Because if we don’t, we’ll HAVE no tomorrow with Republicans back in charge.

[doc03]

17. As bad as he is he is better than anyone else we can

get in WV.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Tragic. I don't doubt you and the coal baron Manchin and his Maserati rule supreme.

Raping WV of their mountaintops and dismissing their comminty struggles

[JI7]

23. They should take a class in how elections work

And the learn that senators are elected by the people of their state.

In Manchin's case this means people that voted largely against Biden.

[MerryBlooms]

31. They're staffers. They know elections work.

They do tons of research for the Congressional folks they work for, they're intelligent young people, they're our future. Just because they actually want a future that includes a climate that sustains lifeforms, they should shut up and sit down? Nope. I'm relieved to see them involved and taking action. We'll be dead, we've left it on their shoulders! They have a right to be angry.

[JI7]

32. What they are asking for here is to make Mitch McConnell Senate leader

[MerryBlooms]

37. No, they're begging for action from sources they trust.

The folks they trust will listen. They're desperate. I'm almost 60, most people on DU as, or older than me. We have had years and years to take the measures needed, Carter tried. We must do better. The hopelessness is overwhelming, yet, it's one excuse after another from folks who could make a difference. President Biden is on the right path, his agenda Must be supported! It's a start.

[JI7]

42. What they are asking for here is to make McConnell Senate leader

[roamer65]

24. November.

It’s all riding on the midterms in November.

[JI7]

25. They want Mitch McConnell to be Senate leader

[dixiechiken1]

27. The timing is silly and incredibly short sighted...

It won't happen. At least not before we have a buffer in place that insures we won't go from majority to minority 'just like that'. *snaps fingers*

[JohnSJ]

29. It is stupid. Three months before the midterms to play this game. Instead of waiting until after

the midterms to work to gain enough seats in the Senate to make Manchin and Sinema irrelevant, some brillant jackass to get attention, thought this was a good idea.

I wouldn't be surprised if this group of clowns would ask Manchin to become a republican.

[Handler]

30. Instead of treating Manchin as if he is a Democrat, treat him as the republican he is.

Maybe countering him with strength and resolve will inspire folks to vote for democrats. Give the people a reason to vote with us. Walking on eggshells around him will gain us nothing. The party standing up for our beliefs is nothing to be afraid of.

[OMGWTF]

33. Make Manchin irrelevant in November. That's the only solution I can see.

[Hortensis]

45. If you mean elect two more democratic senators, absolutely

Not as good as selecting 10 more, but it would shift a lot of power away from him and make a BIG difference.

We are the only ones who can do that.

[Magoo48]

36. Perhaps Chuck will send them a memo.

[gulliver]

39. TruthOut is aptly named nt