19th July 2021, 10:52 AM
Manchin said he supported a lot of things in the past year. He changed his mind the very instant he had a private doner's meeting. He's bought and paid for. He doesn't actually believe in anything. His words are wind.
It isn't useful to debate policy with him. The only thing that'll work is consequences from his own party if he doesn't get in line. Make no mistake, there's plenty of corruption to go around in the Democratic party, but Manchin right now is the worst. He's effectively a Republican right now and should be treated as such. Our technical majority is a minority so long as that man is trying to "reach across the aile" and "compromise" away everything we're trying to accomplish.
It isn't useful to debate policy with him. The only thing that'll work is consequences from his own party if he doesn't get in line. Make no mistake, there's plenty of corruption to go around in the Democratic party, but Manchin right now is the worst. He's effectively a Republican right now and should be treated as such. Our technical majority is a minority so long as that man is trying to "reach across the aile" and "compromise" away everything we're trying to accomplish.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)