Manchin's revenge tour -- against Dems

[Celerity]

https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/manchin-revenge/

Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) is out with a new book on Tuesday titled “Dead Center.” Manchin is doing a media blitz starting this morning and lasting throughout the week. This includes appearances on CBS, “The View,” Fox News, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” CNN, plus lots and lots of podcasts.

We got an advance copy of Manchin’s book. In it, Manchin — a longtime Democrat who very publicly broke with his party before retiring last year — has a clear message he wants to get out: I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.

The 78-year-old Manchin, who briefly flirted with a presidential run last year, repeatedly bashes former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Manchin even declared that he wanted Republicans to win the Senate majority in 2024 due to their support for maintaining the filibuster, saying it was “the only hope for preserving the Senate as an institution.”

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Manchin does slam President Donald Trump, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans, but his most biting criticisms — by far — are saved for his former party’s leaders:



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[Skittles]

1. he is literally describing repukes

[2naSalit]

2. He shoulda...

Stayed under his rock.

[democratsruletheday]

6. NO one cares about this POS relic....

he was impotent as a Senator and more old and impotent now. YAWN.................................

[Deuxcents]

10. Would be interesting to ask his constituents just what he accomplished for them? Education, healthcare?

[johnnyfins]

3. Manchin can go fuck himself.

He would have this whole country go back to heating their homes with FILTHY coal. What a corrupt fuckhead.

[JBTaurus83]

4. Is there really a demand

For a book from this loser? Who buys this shit?

[Celerity]

5. Joe and Mika? Bill Maher? Sinema?

[JBTaurus83]

8. True.

I suppose he has a fan club. His entire purpose had always been to destroy the party from the inside.

[Johonny]

12. I assume CPAC and other places will feature him

They love themselves self hating democrats.

On the center or left? Given where we are right now, who the fuck cares about a guy trying to squeeze harder to get the one or two Republicans in congress that might support any bipartisan bill? No one.

[msongs]

7. as he is no longer in a position of power I'd be happy to not see his name on DU or anywhere else he is in the

dumpster of history IMO

[Bristlecone]

9. Who gives an F what this clown has to say

He wraps himself in the flag of patriotic civic duty, but he’s nothing but a shill. Always has been, always will be.

[tavernier]

11. I always thought he looked like he had been hit in the face with a cast-iron frying pan.

Now I’m left wondering if that may have actually happened. His dishonesty and self aggrandizement probably didn’t just start in later life.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

13. I still hate manchin

He is truly disgusting

[SocialDemocrat61]

14. Sounds more like he's on a revenge tour

against democracy