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Budi

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33. Who whould have ever guessed? 🤔

Reply to George II (Reply #29)

Fri Oct 8, 2021, 08:04 PM

Oct 2021

Not a big surprise at all. Frankly, it was expected.

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Progressives may hate it, but Manchin just saved the financial health of every American and showed [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP

Oh BS! Turtle got his marching orders from corporate..manchin had nothing to do with it PortTack Oct 2021 #1

McTurtle played a purely political game, he gave up nothing, and took the Rethugs out of the line of Celerity Oct 2021 #8

100% True Blue American Oct 2021 #21

Exactly! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Oct 2021 #24

Excellent. GoodRaisin Oct 2021 #39

So basically, Manchin billh58 Oct 2021 #2

Oh, and did everyone here just say out loud or quietly......FAWK HIM. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 a kennedy Oct 2021 #34

Manchin MFM008 Oct 2021 #3

Manchin and McConnell are cut from the same cloth. flying_wahini Oct 2021 #4

Joe Manchin told @SenSchumer his speech on the floor after the debt limit was "fucking stupid." Celerity Oct 2021 #5

Gag me with rock! BlueLucy Oct 2021 #6

lol, that made me spit my wine!!! Celerity Oct 2021 #9

if my eyes rolled any harder qazplm135 Oct 2021 #7

thread winner Celerity Oct 2021 #10

DUzy!! 2naSalit Oct 2021 #20

Acting as Proxy for the GOP is not commendable . CentralMass Oct 2021 #11

From the Boston Globe article. Time may tell. empedocles Oct 2021 #12

K & R Budi Oct 2021 #16

+1 question everything Oct 2021 #31

I call BS!!! n/t acantharchus Oct 2021 #13

This country pays 50 GOP Senators who can't or won't vote and think for themselves bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #14

Horse Hockey Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #15

Kick mcar Oct 2021 #17

The premise of the article is stupid.... TheRealNorth Oct 2021 #18

And Joe coal Manchin gets to be the power broker again in two months jcgoldie Oct 2021 #28

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA budkin Oct 2021 #19

That is claptrap... hlthe2b Oct 2021 #22

For the record: George II Oct 2021 #23

You are correct about the Boston Globe. sheshe2 Oct 2021 #30

Herald/RCenter....Globe/LCenter Budi Oct 2021 #32

complete bullshit jcgoldie Oct 2021 #25

Manchin could have joined Democrats in ending or modifying the filibuster... Silent3 Oct 2021 #26

This is from June, but Manchin and Sinema aren't the only Democratic Senators who want to keep.... George II Oct 2021 #29

Who whould have ever guessed? 🤔 Budi Oct 2021 #33

Good, expose all the bad actors wellst0nev0ter Oct 2021 #37

what a weird takeaway from this chain of events fishwax Oct 2021 #27

Imagine! And from a Left Center Boston Globe, no less. Budi Oct 2021 #35

So Manchin hinted that he would end the filibuster over the debt ceiling? wellst0nev0ter Oct 2021 #36

I agree with Lincoln Project person on the 11th Hour LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #38

K&R, thanks for this realistic perspective. Great post. Nixie Oct 2021 #40

For the record...a Democrat scoring a win and that perspective Nixie Oct 2021 #41

If that was "saving" Americans, then it was by giving in to the hostage-taker muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 #42