Damn Manchin!!!

[Bayard]

MSNBC just announced he's voting for Gorsuch.

[dalton99a]

1. No surprise there

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Not very surprised

I believe that Schumer is letting a few red-state Dems off the leash, so he probably already has enough Dems to filibuster

[nycbos]

5. It is a wise move

[flamingdem]

3. Howard Dean warned that the Dem base will rebel if they get enough Dems to get to 60

No money for u if that happens.

What are Dems - the party of Yes?

[MFM008]

4. is a frog water tight?

next will come Heidcamp and the other lily livers.

[nycbos]

6. For all the people screaming...

... we need 41 votes to sustain. We also have to defend Dems in very red states.


Let a few of them vote yes to give them cover and still have enough to filibuster

[kentuck]

7. He's afraid of a 30% president...

more than he's afraid of his own voters.

[mythology]

11. His potential voters gave 68.6% to Trump

The largest margin in the country for Trump.

[KittyWampus]

8. No surprise. It's reported Schumer has the 41 votes he needs without the red state Democrats.

[southerncrone]

9. He seldom acts like a Democrat, but often votes w/"them".

He is the most Republican Democrat in Washington. Is he another infiltrator to our party? I fully expect him to flip to the dark side officially any day now.

Pleeeeeze, WV, find a real Democrat to run against him!

[JCanete]

19. Yes exactly. We don't need to waste our funds or energy supporting Dems like this as a party.

It undercuts our progressive message, waters down our legislation even when we have the power to craft it, and only makes our resistance of Republican policy ineffective, and dare I say it, even at times, appear disingenuous. We need to get the fuck rid of him.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. Red-state Dems will make us all look like doormats!

I hate them! My red-state Dem is Sen Claire "Both sides do it" McCaskill and she's stated that she wants to avoid MAKING the republicans use the nuclear option. I also think she believes she can win a few republican votes for next year's election. But she doesn't realize that if she votes for Gorsuch, she'll lose Dem votes!

[Jim Beard]

12. I used to get really pissed at the "Blue Dog" Democrats but realized we would

not get ANYTHING if they were replaced by Republicans.

[JCanete]

20. imagine if they were replaced by progressives. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Manchin knows which side of his bread is buttered.

[adigal]

14. If we lost this, we all need to call the red state Dems and tell them we are getting a real populist

to run against them, and we will fund the crap out of them.

They need to fear us more than our Russian president, Truputin.

[DURHAM D]

15. This is stupid.

His constituents don't care and won't remember 5 minutes from now that he voted for Gorsuch.

[maxsolomon]

22. keep the powder dry

all about that powder.

his constituents don't even remember that they voted for *.

[Yavin4]

16. You know what's worse? It won't do him a damn bit of good in W.Va.

He's going to lose in W. Va. bigly. Why would hard W. Va. right wingers want a soft Republican when they can get a hard Republican?

[KittyWampus]

17. You sound so sure. Got some polling that shows he'll lose in WV?

[spanone]

18. of course.

[Marthe48]

21. Of course he is--he is a nasty little bj, for sale to any repug

n/t