Manchin requiring minimal support from the morally bankrupt opposition party on a judicial nominee before he will play nice with his own party is just another display of You will notice me and respect me! And why don't you guys ever call me up when you're going out for a beer? I got feelings, you know?
Way to fuck the Dems on your way out the door, Joe. Leaving with what little dignity and goodwill you had left would have been the best move. Even that was a bridge too far. 🙄
My mom told me if I have nothing nice to say about someone then say nothing at all. So the only thing I'll say about Manchin is it's nice he's leaving the senate.
OK, I don't actually follow that rule though I loved my mom dearly when she was still with us. So fuck that guy. Fucking asshole.
Durbin, Manchin--this is the sort of deadwood the Senate Dems need to clean out (though Manchin at least has the benefit of being a vast improvement on the replacement level senator for West Virginia--not seeing Durbin's value though). And "swing voter bona fides" may justify substantively moderate positions (e.g., more business friendly policy, compromise positions on guns or abortion) but there's absolutely no value in "bipartisan civility points" that seem important to Beltway pundits but no swing voters at all (show me one moderate voter who even follows "blue slip" tradition and I'll show you something from the imagination of the Washington Post editorial board).
As for Masto, she's got problems that involve appealing more to Hispanic voters that are drifting towards the GOP (ironic considering she's Hispanic, but voters care more about politics than they do ethnicity, otherwise Tim Scott would have won a majority of the black vote in SC), not "does this federal judge nominee have ties to left wing organizations". Does any voter care about this who isn't already locked into their partisanship?
Jesus fuck. The extremist hacks the Republicans have packed in there like so much stonework against any possibility of actual progress for decades pretty much say to me their approval of anyone is not so much a good sign.
Bipartisanship sucks as a reason to do, or to not do, anything. You should be doing something because it's the right thing to do, or not doing it, because not doing it is the right thing to do.
Well the worst time for Democrats is the BEST time for chaos agents (as well as click-obsessed rightwing-coddling journalists). Manchin wants to make it ugly to continue to have some relevance.
Let's see if we can make Manchin cry his tears on his yacht this fall and retain a majority for Dems.
But in the long term we are going to have to "blue up" conservative states and that is going to be a problem structurally. Unless we want to run some super-liberal types for ideological consistency in these rural conservative states and see what happens. Will they fare like Manchin's last opponent?
Manchin requiring minimal support from the morally bankrupt opposition party on a judicial nominee before he will play nice with his own party is just another display of You will notice me and respect me! And why don't you guys ever call me up when you're going out for a beer? I got feelings, you know?
Tedious is exactly the word to describe him!
Way to fuck the Dems on your way out the door, Joe. Leaving with what little dignity and goodwill you had left would have been the best move. Even that was a bridge too far. 🙄
My mom told me if I have nothing nice to say about someone then say nothing at all. So the only thing I'll say about Manchin is it's nice he's leaving the senate.
OK, I don't actually follow that rule though I loved my mom dearly when she was still with us. So fuck that guy. Fucking asshole.
Durbin, Manchin--this is the sort of deadwood the Senate Dems need to clean out (though Manchin at least has the benefit of being a vast improvement on the replacement level senator for West Virginia--not seeing Durbin's value though). And "swing voter bona fides" may justify substantively moderate positions (e.g., more business friendly policy, compromise positions on guns or abortion) but there's absolutely no value in "bipartisan civility points" that seem important to Beltway pundits but no swing voters at all (show me one moderate voter who even follows "blue slip" tradition and I'll show you something from the imagination of the Washington Post editorial board).
As for Masto, she's got problems that involve appealing more to Hispanic voters that are drifting towards the GOP (ironic considering she's Hispanic, but voters care more about politics than they do ethnicity, otherwise Tim Scott would have won a majority of the black vote in SC), not "does this federal judge nominee have ties to left wing organizations". Does any voter care about this who isn't already locked into their partisanship?
Jesus fuck. The extremist hacks the Republicans have packed in there like so much stonework against any possibility of actual progress for decades pretty much say to me their approval of anyone is not so much a good sign.
Manchin is a useless fucking shit.
Bipartisanship sucks as a reason to do, or to not do, anything. You should be doing something because it's the right thing to do, or not doing it, because not doing it is the right thing to do.
Well the worst time for Democrats is the BEST time for chaos agents (as well as click-obsessed rightwing-coddling journalists). Manchin wants to make it ugly to continue to have some relevance.
Let's see if we can make Manchin cry his tears on his yacht this fall and retain a majority for Dems.
But in the long term we are going to have to "blue up" conservative states and that is going to be a problem structurally. Unless we want to run some super-liberal types for ideological consistency in these rural conservative states and see what happens. Will they fare like Manchin's last opponent?
Almost Heaven. I'm rooting for him.
Tester in Montana is a reliable Democrat who isn’t obsessed with faux bipartisanship. Of course, we might lose him this year.
I like Tester a lot. I hope people will still come out for him, and even if he loses at least we left it all out on the road.