In the end?
They HAVE to …..
They can’t win against him….
It’s the way the system works…
Soon after Missouri Rep. Cori Bush accused Sen. Joe Manchin of espousing an “anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman and anti-immigrant” position, another House progressive was on national TV with a sharply different message.
Manchin, in fact, is not a racist, California Rep. Ro Khanna asserted.
The next day, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Blue Dog Democrat, invited Khanna along with a handful of other House members to make the short trek across the Capitol and meet with Manchin in the Senate cloakroom. Manchin was aware of Khanna’s remarks and thanked him, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The episode illustrated the efforts by a group of House and Senate progressives to work behind the scenes to build goodwill with the Senate’s most unpredictable moderate, who has the power to sink President Joe Biden’s expansive agenda — and many progressive priorities — simply by pointing his thumb down. Manchin has made clear he won’t be jammed, even holding a press conference last week balking at the demands made by progressives that he publicly endorse Biden’s $1.75 trillion framework…
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After months of intense scrutiny on his positions, Manchin now stands poised to have the final word on Biden’s agenda, assuming House Democratic leaders can muscle through their version of the Build Back Better plan, which stands at roughly $1.9 trillion, as soon as next week.
Then the focus will shift squarely to what Manchin will accept, an open question as he has for months called on his party to hit the brakes. He raised concerns that a multi-trillion bill could add to the country’s inflation woes, pushed back on provisions to reduce methane emissions, opposed a Medicare expansion, demanded changes to the tax provisions in the House proposal and resisted measures aimed at helping undocumented immigrants.
And if he cuts a deal, House progressives almost certainly will be forced to swallow it….
Cori Bush is probably my least favorite Democrat in Congress. She just needs to find a way to talk in a way that is not offensive. Because right now, the Democratic majority is already smaller than it otherwise would be because of stupid slogans such as”Defund the police”. Instead just say “Police Reform”.
Manchin is from one of the reddest states in the country, and there is no chance in replacing him in WV with someone with her values. It can only be a lack of intelligence thar prevents her from seeing that.
Yes,her remarks were way out of line and untrue .
What has been happening here should remind of the hazards of attempting to pass groundbreaking legislation with razor thin majorities in both houses of Congress in an era when bipartisanship is rare indeed.