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In reply to the discussion: Joe Manchin Throws Another Wrench Into Joe Biden's Nominees, Not Sold on HHS Pick Becerra [View all]Grins
(7,195 posts)One senator from one shitty state representing one-half-of-1% of the nation's population, elected by .17% (.0017) of the nation's population, can stop the nation's business dead in its tracks.
HHS has the lion's share of the federal budget and covers a TREMENDOUS range of services to the entire country. But Manchin isn't concerned by all those things, he's concerned because someone has a pro-choice opinion on something over which - HE HAS ZERO CONTROL! Unlike Manchin - the HHS Secretary can't vote!
Not that it matters, but it will never come to a vote because:
a) keeping it an "issue" is a way to keep another minority, single-issue, community back home voting for you, and
b) If it ever went to a national referendum - it would LOSE!
70% of Americas want to leave abortion as something between a doctor and a patient.
Becerra should just throw that back at him: "My opinion is shared by a majority of Americans. Why are you against the majority of Americans, Senator? Why do you oppose (deep voice) THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE?"