The American left is a miracle. Simultaneously responsible for every negative event that happens and too insignificant to consider placating.
This article lists the 13 Repubs who voted for the bill.
I’m surprised that Liz Cheney is not among them.
ETA:
Why? She’s incredibly conservative. On actual policy, there aren’t that many to the right of her. If she has any interest in re-election, voting against it was the right play.
Her claim to fame is that she isn’t budging on the Trump thing. Other than that, I got no use for her.
Hasn’t she pretty much already torpedoed herself over this?
Maybe. But her natural inclination would have been to vote against this anyway. It would only be to spite the Republicans to vote for it.
She isn’t a good person. Not even remotely. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree in her case.
It’s just that she’s better than most of the rest of her party. It’s a low, low bar, but there are so few GOPers that clear it that we laud them when they do.
True, and on that list there are a number of already known non-returning members, members from places where a no vote may be held against them with some effect, and Young of Alaska, the Dean of the House, who at this point in his career has No F***s Left To Give and will gladly remind you of that if you let him.
Perhaps they should consider joining forces with the radical right. They deserve all the blame they get too, and nobody is in the mood to placate them either.
I don’t think that’s what he meant. I believe he was making an observation ( or a clever jab, if you will ) that one one hand the democratic party leadership regards the left as largely irrelevant as far as influence goes, yet on the other hand they’re relevant and influential enough to be responsible “for every negative event that happens”.
As for the hard right, they’re all too influential and actively courted by the republican party, not just for their votes, but in setting policy.
Big difference.
Oh, he knew what that post meant.
It’s just that he was also taking a clever jab, by saying exactly what he believes, which is that he would draw some real vindication from seeing people on the far left identify with the right. They’re going to blame the left for the failures of their own governance either way, but it would be more satisfying if they really believed there was some kind of horseshoe theory in operation. What’s policy have to do with politics, anyway.
The two ideas: “The left is too small a faction for us to consider their priorities to be important,” and “The left is responsible for us not being able to do good things,” are in conflict if you actually want to do good things.
It’s not really that much of a paradox. Throw an 8mm ball bearing at the grille of a ‘54 DeSoto, and you won’t deflect its trajectory, but toss it in the carburetor and you’ll stop it cold.
Fucker’s shithole of a boat needs to get bombarded with lumps of coal.
To a conservative, anything less than “all the time” is a betrayal.
Manchin is the handmaiden of the fossil-fuel industry, and that, combined with his sanctimonious posturings whenever he torpedoes a Democratic agenda item, make him deplorable.
But let’s never forget that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in Congress will ALSO reject any plan to ban new offshore drilling. (And will reject every other measure introduced in Congress to stop heating up the planet.)
(Yes, I know this particular thread is about Manchin and not about the deplorable Republicans. But: perspective.)
He’s a DINO. Why isn’t everyone everywhere calling him that?
Aye: the best course of action is to drive him from the party! Right?
No, as you well know. If Joe Manchin goes GOP, we get Mitch back.
Still: Manchin does remain a pretty disgraceful individual. (It’s the sanctimony that grates, even more than the opposition.)
Right, we need to keep him as one of our pet DINOs.
A nitpick, but I 'll go there, anyway - JM could be as sanctimonious as whoever that David Ogden Steirs character was in MASH (or Kanye West, well, in a slightly psychotic, inchoate way) for all I strongly care, but his oppositional fuckery I find a lot more concerning.
Then again, if you’re specifically homing in on a grating element (rather than a concerning one) then I suppose that can apply more to his sanctimony than toxic obstructionism.
Don’t want to be,
Under the sea,
In an octopus’s garden,
Getting drilled.
Joe’d let us in,
His, floating bin,
And court, the correct toadies, in spades.
He’d check his
An-cient
Ro-lo-deh-ex.
Then cul-ti-vate more
Oil lob-by-ists.
Joe’d like to be,
Rapin’ that sea,
As long as his state voters
Keep him in.
With Joe’s clout,
Simps, flail about,
Watching through the reeds, within the waves.
(Oh what joy, for Jordan and Dejoy,
Fearing that they are, no longer safe.)
Fuck Joe Man-chin
With, a cac-tus,
With no one there,
To tell him what to do.
Don’t want to be,
Under the sea,
When oil patches come floatin,
O’er me. 