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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/ppolitics/status/1484163133115666432[/twitter][/quote]

I really don't give a shit. Our civil and voting rights are under threat. Instead of grandstanding speeches the day before a failed vote after a year of ignoring the problem maybe Biden should be focused on that instead of his universal social welfare policies.

Damn. [b]Manchin is willing to support voting rights[/b] - stop trying to take a mile and accept a few feet of voter protections and come back for more.[/quote]
No, he’s not. Stop trying to excuse him.[/quote]

He's literally a co-sponsor on the Freedom To Vote Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s2747/cosponsors[/quote]

It was filibustered by his Republican friends.  Didn't he promise to deliver 10 Republicans in the name of bipartisanship?[/quote]

Yeah and Biden promised to cross the bipartisan divide with his 50 years of experience in the Senate. He didn’t. At least Manchin got the votes needed for Infrastructure. [/quote]

Crossing the bipartisan divide takes two sides.  Republicans are staunchly entrenched in assholedom.  Can't blame Biden for that.  So your point is kinda...  pointless.[/quote]
Finally, some sanity on this board instead of Republicans pretending that Manchin is acting ethically. Bipartisan means “both parties.” The GOP’s stated goal is to obstruct and worsen everything so that the Democrats lose. That’s not bipartisanship, that’s governmental terrorism. [/quote]

And let's also drop the bullshit that there is anything noble, ethical or principled about what Manchin and Sinema did.  They sold out.  They took a bunch of money from the opposition party in exchange for torpedoing Dem bills.  End of story.[/quote]

They stopped Biden from doing an end-run while the country was focused on dying of Covid (would be nice of Biden to focus on that too) AND prevented him from nuking the filibuster which we'll need when the GOP comes back into power in 2023 and 2024.

Grateful to them.[/quote]

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