Opinion | LEBassett: Senators Manchin and Sinema are so enamored with the myth of bipartisanship that they aren’t willing to do what needs to be done to save their own party. - MSNBCDaily
In the case of Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and the massive threat to American voting rights playing out now, the so-called moderates have made their intentions clear from the start — and liberals are still naively pinning their hopes on the two.
Both Sinema and Manchin have said since the moment President Joe Biden was elected that they will not budge on the filibuster. Yet people were still shocked and angry Sunday when, yet again, that he is not interested in allowing his own party to legislate without “bipartisan” support.
This idea of the Senate “maverick” swooping in to save democracy has a lot to do with the late Arizona Republican John McCain, whoseon repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017 thwarted his own party’s best effort to do that. McCain had previously expressed disdain for Obamacare, and people assumed he had some change of heart on the matter because of his brain cancer.; he was just angry that Republicans had tried to push the bill through without a hearing or any bipartisan input.
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