Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Thursday he is not willing to abolish the legislative filibuster if Republicans block the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which they are set to do within hours.
Why it matters: Manchin — a crucial moderate swing vote — has blasted GOP leadership over the Jan. 6 commission and said "there is no excuse for any Republican to vote against" the bill. But his view has still not changed on eliminating or altering the filibuster, even if it prevents his party from passing key legislation.
What they're saying: "I'm not willing to destroy our government, no," Manchin said when asked if he would vote to end the filibuster if Republicans blocked the commission.
This appears to be an ongoing situation where every time there is legislation that does not have the support of 60 Senators, that "this" will be the time that Joe Manchin will vote to eliminate the filibuster. It's almost as if these stories are written by people who actually do not understand how the filibuster works or the point of it in the first place. The entire "point" of the filibuster is the belief that at least one of our two chambers provides enough minority support for a bill for it to become law. It's the very nature of preventing a 50%+1 vote to rule everything.
Meanwhile, these same pundits seem to forget that there are other Democratic Senators who have been outspoken against abolishing the filibuster and there are said to be many more who do not favor it (but don't believe it is advantageous at this point to make the argument out loud). Joe Manchin is not the only Democrat that would need to be convinced of this and the entire world does not rest upon his shoulders.
With 2022 looming it becomes abundantly clear that Democrats do not appear confident that they will hold or expand their majorities and are likely thinking this is there last best chance to really radically alter things. It seems like yesterday that Barack Obama was swept into office with a huge House majority and 60 seats in the Senate. What they did with that 60 seat majority was pass Obamacare and little else.
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We will see how long he lasts after the R's vote down the 1-6 innocuous commission .....Why is the GOP sooooooo against finding out the whole story????? With trump on the edge of indictment how long will you keep support assholes like Greene Gaetz, Boebert, Gohmer and the rest of the doooooo nothing congress???????? You want to win dump the QANON believers but with 25% thinking we are a nation of pedophiles....you have a lot of work to do to save your party!!!!!!!!!
Roger, good post on Bidenomics.
Can you explain how this is stimulative ?
"Households have saved about $2 trillion more than they would have absent the pandemic and federal relief efforts"
IDIOT POST FROM THE GOAT FUCKER!!!!! Maybe you can explain why gas costs have risen in the past 2 months instead of complaining that it is Bidens fault!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Gasoline
FOOD
New Car/Used Cars
HOUSING
And many more consumables have gone up because of Biden's policies.
Crime is up too.
Biden closing down of 10 k private prison beds used by US Marshalls to house Federal Felony offenders.
Denny, I noticed you made zero attempt to answer the question I put to Roger about his economic post. Good move dopie.
Manchine might be the hero that kept federal spending from spiraling out of control.
Cooooo coooo
We now have clear evidence that the people who largely run our country -- the mainstream media, the lords of Silicon Valley, the leaders of the Democrat party – grossly misled the country on the two biggest stories of the last five years: Trump/Russia and COVID-19.
Theirs were not honest mistakes, but willful efforts to deceive. They were not interested in finding the truth but in delegitimizing their political enemies. Exposure of their failures has not led to humbling self-examination. Instead they are sticking to playbook – brooking no dissent while they smear and punish those brave enough to challenge them – as they insist upon the absolute truth of other bogus claims: that America is riddled with systemic racism and white supremacy, that the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol was an insurrection aimed at toppling the government, that climate change is an existential threat to life on the planet.
These misleaders have lost their claim to moral authority. But, for the time being at least, they still have power.
J. Peder Zane is an editor for RealClearInvestigations and a columnist for RealClearPolitics.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will create a investigation hearing with subpoena authority to determine what actually happened on January 6th
Roger, address my question based on your economic post.
Denny , ran.
Will you?.
RINO?
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered a thinly veiled warning Thursday about the Republican Party's reliance on former President Donald Trump, calling on the GOP to re-embrace traditional conservative principles.
"Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads," Ryan, R-Wis., said in an outdoor speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., which often hosts GOP officials, presidential candidates and conservative luminaries.
"And here's one reality we have to face: If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality or on second-rate imitations, then we're not going anywhere," he said. "Voters looking for Republican leaders want to see independence and mettle."
Paul Ryan speaks at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on May 27, 2021.YouTube/Reagan Foundation
He said it was "horrifying" to see a presidency come to a "dishonorable and disgraceful end," referring to rump's re-election loss and his sputtering — and ultimately unsuccessful — legal battle. He did not mention Trump by name.
It was Ryan's sharpest criticism of Trump, who still enjoys support, albeit lessened, within the GOP, since Ryan left House GOP leadership. An NBC News poll last month found that 44 percent of Republicans say they support Trump more than the GOP, compared to 50 percent who say they support the party more than Trump.
Most GOP Voters Think Liberals Rioted at the Capitol
May 28, 2021 at 9:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 47 Comments
A new Yahoo/YouGov poll
reveals that 73% of Republicans believe that left-wing protestors are to blame for the January 6th attack on the Capitol because they wanted “to make Trump look bad.”
STUPID DOESN'T GET ANY STUPIDER THAN THIS. IF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DOES NOT BEGIN TO COME TO ITS SENSES, IT WILL BE DOOMED, AND DESERVES TO BE.
IT IS SO ASTOUNDINGLY STUPID, THAT I CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THAT THEY ARE KNOWINGLY LYING, LYING, LYING.
For hours Trump was inordinately PROUD of what those rioters were doing until the reaction all across America enabled his advisers to convince him that he should not stand behind them, and so he FINALLY told them to stop what they were doing, but even then he said, "we love you."
He said he loved those liberal rioters who were only doing what they were doing to make him look bad?
CH/SCOTTIE, do you and these people you support live in some another universe?
some other
Very dull Three Neo-socialist of CHT.
Scott, the story was all over on MSNBC with the video of him avoiding a direct comment about the filibuster
The current era is full crazy historical rhetoric and has created an alternate reality universe for Republicans who worship Trump.
https://youtu.be/XCwCVAyeXAg
Trump Says Paul Ryan Is a ‘Curse’ to the Republican Party
May 28, 2021 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
Former President Trump fired back at former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) after a speech in which Ryan criticized Trump’s continued grip on the Republican Party, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “Paul Ryan has been a curse to the Republican Party. He has no clue as to what needs to be done for our Country, was a weak and ineffective leader, and spends all of his time fighting Republicans as opposed to Democrats who are destroying our Country.”
Trump is a curse to America.
Trump Appointee Warns of ‘Grand Plan’ to Replace Whites
May 28, 2021 at 10:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
“A Trump appointee serving on West Point’s advisory board has repeatedly spread a conspiracy that the Biden administration is bringing in non-White immigrants as part of a ‘grand plan’ to have them outnumber White Americans of European ancestry in the United States,” CNN reports.
“He also attacked women serving in the military in combat roles.”
Quote of the Day
May 28, 2021 at 10:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
“Turns out, things are much worse than we expected.”
— Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die, quoted by the New Yorker.
Texas Will Require National Anthem Before Sporting Events
May 28, 2021 at 9:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 70 Comments
Texas lawmakers passed a bill that will penalize professional sports teams if they do not play the national anthem before games, Fox News reports.
Russia Hacked System Used by U.S. Aid Agency
May 28, 2021 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 50 Comments
New York Times: “Hackers linked to Russia’s main intelligence agency surreptitiously seized an email system used by the State Department’s international aid agency to burrow into the computer networks of human rights groups and other organizations of the sort that have been critical of President Vladimir Putin.
“Discovery of the breach comes only three weeks before President Biden is scheduled to meet Mr. Putin in Geneva, and at a moment of increased tension between the two nations — in part because of a series of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks emanating from Russia.”
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I don't think Biden is going to kiss Pooty on the mouth and sit in his lap the way Trump did.
"key inflation indicator rose a faster-than-expected 3.1% in April as price pressures built in the rapidly expanding U.S. economy, the Commerce Department reported Friday."
Oh, oh.
"I don't think Biden is going to kiss Pooty on the mouth and sit in his lap,,, just bent over and took a high hard one.
Gave the US Energy market to putin.
"The Fed considers 2% to be healthy"
It is at 3.1%.
Unhealthy and Expected.
"Roger, good post on Bidenomics.
Can you explain how this is stimulative ?
"Households have saved about $2 trillion more than they would have absent the pandemic and federal relief efforts"
Denny took a pass, Roger can't answer it, James, will you spare a dime and save Roger?
Re Roger's 9:46AM post
https://youtu.be/XCwCVAyeXAg
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen ad infinitum.
Maybe somebody would like to tell K.Dem. that nobody cares about his posts which he thinks are so clever but are not.
Jamie, my post is in response to Rogers post on Bidenomics .
It is also in response to bbbbwwwwaaas.
SOMETHING THAT REALLY MATTERS:
Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon
May 28, 2021 at 11:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Zeynep Tufecki:
“If world leaders don’t act now, the end of the Covid pandemic may come with a horrible form of herd immunity, as more transmissible variants that are taking hold around the world kill millions.”
“There’s troubling new evidence that the B.1.617.2 variant, first identified in India, could be far more transmissible than even the B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in Britain, which contributed to some of the deadliest surges around the world.”
“In countries with widespread vaccination, like the United States and Britain, we can expect that Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to decline or stay low, especially because lab tests and real world experience show that vaccines appear to defend recipients well against the severe effects of both variants.”
“For much of the rest of the world, though, this even more transmissible new variant could be catastrophic.”
Denny , ran.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! At 8:36 i posed a question to you again and you changed the subject like you always do!!!!!! Sad that some who claimed 2 Masters cannot provide simple explanation of current economic trends......LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
Matt Gaetz Urges ‘Armed Rebellion’
May 28, 2021 at 7:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 143 Comments
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told an audience in Georgia Thursday that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to “maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary,” the New York Post reports.
Said Gaetz: “We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it.”
Gaetz also suggested conservatives shoot people in Silicon Valley for their “cancel culture.”
Kputz runs from almost everything that is posted here. An example of his kind of "answer" can be seen in his 10:02.
Ignore him.
Denny, I directly answered your queztion.
Jamie, Biden enambled Putin to restart and finish there pipelines to Germany.
Yet, Biden Stopped the completion of the XL keystone pipelines in the USA.
Gave the US Energy market to putin.
China’s Stonewall of Covid Probe Prompted Biden
May 28, 2021 at 6:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
NBC News: “Biden’s decision to announce an intensified 90-day review into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic came about in part because of the Chinese government’s refusal participate in an investigation by the World Health Organization.”
New York Times: U.S. said to have unexamined intelligence to pore over on virus origins.
Biden is not going to play around on things like this.
Denny, I directly answered your question.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
The Trump investigation uncovered the WTO & China lies.
Good to see the very dull Three Neo-socialist of CHT getting on board, finally.
Denny, the facts are known.
Inflation is on ,♨️, well over the "2%" target of Biden's "all-star team " target .
Real rate 3.1%.
Food
Fuel
Used/New Cars
Homes
The list is endless ...
Biden policies .
The same new york times that on March 18th, 2020.
Attacked President Trump for calling it the "China virus", .
I see the lying POS "pastor" is going on a non-stop lying spree aided by his tethered source the political_lire blog
1) Matt Gaetz Urges ‘Armed Rebellion’ FACT CHECK - FALSE
2) Gaetz also suggested conservatives shoot people in Silicon Valley for their “cancel culture.” FACT CHECK - FALSE
SOURCE:https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-didnt-say-use-second-amendment-against-silicon-valley-shoot-1595706
3) China’s Stonewall of Covid Probe Prompted Biden FACT CHECK - FALSE
Biden had quietly terminated a probe days earlier but got caught with his pants down when multiple sources started reporting the likelihood of the year-old lab leak scenario.
When asked about this new study and if he would release all it's finding he responded "I will unless there is something in it I don't already know"
It's not worth debunking the stream of the lying "pastor's" lies, just look for Goddard or political_lire as a source and skip on by. Actually he often hides that to a secondary source so just ignore anything he posts.
You'll be a lot better informed.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Breanna Morello 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/breannamorello/status/1398263802068615169
The media asked Joe Biden what flavored ice cream he ordered.
This question comes a day after the @nypost found Hunter’s emails which CLEARLY show Joe met with Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates.
Accountability doesn’t travel with the traveling press corps.
and the lap dog press swooned when he told them chocolate chocolate-chip
FAKE NEWS
1984
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1398264761763221505
Gas prices are soaring.
Inflation is soaring.
Our border is wide open and a disaster.
The economy is crashing.
War is raging again in the Middle East.
But it's okay y'all - Chicken noodle soup brain did a photo op eating chocolate ice cream, yesterday - so everything's fine.
mm good. mm good, Chicken noodle soup brain !!
I like that
TWO GREAT BLACK PATRIOTS
Matt Whitlock
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1398077825769512960
Hard to watch this without getting chills.
It would’ve been so easy to roll over and give up. But Clarence Thomas wasn’t raised that way. #CTlive
Retired Orrin G. Hatch
@RetiredOrrin
"I'd rather die than withdraw. If they're going to kill me, they're going to kill me."
One of the most important and iconic moments of Justice Thomas's confirmation. It was a signal to the world that you should never let bullies win.
And he never has. #CTLive
You need to stand up to bullies like Biden, BLM and the cancel culture.
And he has
Never forget
New York Times: U.S. said to have unexamined intelligence to pore over on virus origins.
Biden is not going to play around on things like this.
Nothing says "not playing around" like shutting down a previous investigation into the origins because that was all a right wing disinformation campaign, then a few weeks later offering to start a new investigation from scratch that is just like the previous cancelled investigation.
Yep... nothing unserious about that.
As the possibility that new evidence might be coming into view, Biden was willing to examine it, unlike Trump who tried to pretend he was never mistaken about anything, not even about the virus being down to near zero cases in a few days and that it would suddenly be gone like magic.
As the possibility that new evidence might be coming into view, Biden was willing to examine it, unlike Trump who tried to pretend he was never mistaken about anything
You do realize that when Biden took office, that the previous administration has an ongoing investigation into the Wuhan lab and the potential that the virus was not "natural".
Whether you like it or not...
Putting an end to that investigation because Biden and gang were "sure" that a lab leak was just disinformation from the Trump Administration... was stupid, blatantly political, and well... stupid. I have to say it twice because it was stupid. (okay three times).
Had it not been for pretty much overwhelming new evidence that it was probably a lab leak, Biden would never have allowed such an investigation to take place.
For the sole reason that the Wuhan lab leak idea was a Trump concept. In case you haven't noticed, Biden has as a matter of knee jerk consistency done the opposite of what Trump had been doing (which the sole exception being the vaccination which would have been political suicide to back away from).
So far< Biden was wrong (Trump was correct) on the border.
So far< Biden was wrong (Trump was correct) on the Middle East.
So far< Biden was wrong (Trump was correct) on the Wuhan lab leak.
Among other things.
But the fact that you, Reverend, believe that Biden going back on his own attempts to downplay Wuhan lab leak is somehow "not playing around" just goes to show how far up Biden's ass your entire head is.
May 28, 2021 at 10:43 AM
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Denny, the facts are known.
Yep.....you are a lying sack of shit with no brains!!!!!!!!!! Now provide the economics of gas price rise, not bullshit excuses of your stupidity !!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL
For the sole reason that the Wuhan lab leak idea was a Trump concept.
BULLLLLLSHIT !!!!! He heard it from some idiot blogger!!!!!!!!
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