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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Yeah, the guy who governs like a right wing Republican-lite coal industry bootlicker is definitely a "centrist pregmatist". 
Literally the President, almost all house Democrats, and all senate Democrats aside from two, wanted to pass various bills, all of which either got outright blocked or heavily amended by Manchin/Sinema. Are you telling me that the entire Democratic party aside from two senators are the "looney left" now? Or is it more likely that Manchin/Sinema are actually right wingers barely masquerading as Democrats? |
I've said this 50 times in this thread so what's one more.
There is no other democrat in the world who can win a seat in West Virginia. Yes - Manchin leans more to the right than others, but your options are:
1) Have Manchin in the senate - pass the covid relief bill and Inflation reduction act - even if they were watered down.
2) Primary Manchin with some other Democrat who meets your wishes - lose the West Virginia senate seat by 20 points. Have the Republicans control the senate and pass nothing
In an ideal world - you win Nevada (which they will) and Georgia so you can have those Manchin and Sinema battle against each other to get what they want. But the Democrats should be on the knees thanking Manchin every day for giving them a chance to pass anything because they have a 0% chance of holding a West Virginia senate seat without him.