Manchin not endorsing Harris after she backed ending filibuster to codify abortion rights
Manchin not endorsing Harris after she backed ending filibuster to codify abortion rights
The fact that Biden called for this exact same thing and Manchin was ok endorsing him but has to make a big scene when a non-white woman calls for doing the same thing basically tells you everything you need to know about Manchin
This pearl clutching very much reads to me like he was looking for an excuse and this was the first one that turned up.
I think there are more differences between Kamala and Joe besides melanin levels and genitalia structure but okay I guess
Edit: Oh, I guess Kamala really is Biden in an Indian-African-American woman's body after all, nvm
Why not just make the filibuster what it used to be and require the people who want to wield it to hold the floor for hours upon hours with no break? Some of it was silly. Some of it heroic. Either way, it required someone to truly be willing to stand behind their beliefs and, thus, was used much less often.
I also liked the idea of a minority vote (2/5) to sustain a filibuster. If you don't have 40 supporters, on the floor, then the filibuster ends.
it required someone to truly be willing to stand behind their beliefs
Conservatives don't typically have these, and the ones that do know how unpopular they are. That's why they fight against any attempt to reign it in.
This seems like such a fair way to add some discomfort to filibustering and making it a bit less appealing.
Oh no! Anyways…
Can someone kick this guy in the nuts? I don't really care about this news, I just think that should happen to him, every day.
Republicans can endorse Harris all day long and I'm here for it.
Manchin endorsing Harris would have actually done her a disservice.
Manchin was not going to endorse her anyway.
It's 42 days to the election, people are voting, if he was going to endorse her it would have been at the convention.
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Oh wow, the republican infiltrator isnt supporting the democrats.
I'm sooooooooo surprised.
I'd seen the quote, but not the withholding of endorsement. Well, I guess he's going to join the 'both sides bad' crowd.
Still. What does his opinion matter? He's leaving the Senate next year so his proper alt-Right replacement can take over...
Manchin LOL. What a piece of work.
He’s a fucking tool; I don’t expect she’ll care much. Also: what an absolutely fucking idiotic hill for him to die on.
Like I give a flying fuck what Joe Manchin's DINO ass thinks
@realcaseyrollins he's gunna endorse trump and could end up sec of energy
Oh boy...that would be something...
"It’s the only thing that keeps us talking and instead of working together."
Manchin not endorsing IS an endorsement. Harris should run commercials.
Holy Grail? An item given no special meaning in the Bible, and was blown out of proportion in importance by fiction writers a thousand years later? I guess Manchin doesn't really think the filibuster is too important then.
No special meaning and not in the Constitution.
Fuck Joe "This is the best we can hope for" Manchin.
And fuck the system that makes him the best we can hope for.
West Virginia used to be cool.
This guy sucks.
Forced Birther coal baron Joe Manchin is upset at Harris for threatening his cash cow fillibuster. News at 11
"I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message!"
He likes his power
Who gives a single fuck what Joe "I'm really a Republican" Manchin says?
Oh no! Not getting Manchin's endorsement will really be a albatross for Harris in the West Virginia race where Trump won 68% to 29% in 2020.
Does this make Manchin a Tankie?
Who could have seen that coming?
Oh literally everyone nvm
Whatever he needs to do to get elected to avoid Republican control of the Senate. Yeah it'll suck if he is one of the saviors of the filibuster. But it'll suck more if Republicans are in charge of the Senate.
He's not running for reelection, the Rs are getting that Senate seat this year
That is an endorsement in of itself.
he is a DINO
Not even. He officially left the Dems and registered as independent earlier this year.
An independent now. Not even a DINO.
More like a Dixiecrat. Old school southern Democrat.
Honestly, I’ll take it.
Dude could be a Home Depot Halloween skeleton for all I care. He caucuses with the Dems, which means that he helps push the Dems over 50% in the senate, which means the Dems control political appointments and what get brought to the floor.
I’ll take him over Mitch McConnell back in power.
Remember RINO was a term before the party switch. It was used for people deemed not progressive enough.