It would be nice to live in a functioning democracy where the majority party elected by the will of the people actually passed legislation that is not only hugely popular, but whose goals the elected officials themselves claim to support.
I guess he must have forgotten already about the Capitol insurrection, and all of the states where Republicans have passed anti-democratic laws curbing voting, and basically the last several decades of Republican politics! But sure, go on about “bipartisanship.”
Manchin concluded by adding, “Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.” He explained his rationale, which has no basis in the reality of today’s obstructionist Republican Party: “Do we really want to live in an America where one party can dictate and demand everything and anything it wants, whenever it wants? I have always said, ‘If I can’t go home and explain it, I can’t vote for it.’ And I cannot explain strictly partisan election reform or blowing up the Senate rules to expedite one party’s agenda.
Listen, I get that Manchin is a Democrat in a now-majority Republican state, who only narrowly won re-election last time around. I get that a Senate without Joe Manchin would be a Senate that would not have been able to push through the latest covid-19 relief bill, and would have no chance at passing the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill. And Manchin is, only the most vocal.
, “Once again, the party of white grievance is rewriting the rules of American democracy to protect conservative white political power from the rising influence of new demographic groups.”C’mon, Joe, even another old white man named Joe saw the light about the Republican Party and so-called bipartisanship! If one Joe can do it, so can you!
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