So WaPo: Manchin is NOT the 'roadblock' you claimed he was??

[Budi]

Don't even start doing this division drama already. Please.
Now Manchin can be a shit but There Is NO Roadblock.

Link to tweet

[elleng]

1. Thanks; didn't sound like he was a 'roadblock.'

He said: 'Getting people vaccinated, that’s job No. 1,” Manchin said in an interview with The Washington Post when asked if he would support a new round of checks.

“How is the money that we invest now going to help us best to get jobs back and get people employed? And I can’t tell you that sending another check out is gonna do that to a person that’s already got a check,” Manchin added.

“You know, we have a difference of opinion,” Manchin said regarding Schumer’s promise to move quickly on the checks. “That’s the beauty of our whole caucus. We have a difference of opinion on that.”'

[rzemanfl]

2. Not saying a word, particularly the one I used earlier this evening.

Not a word. Silence.

[comradebillyboy]

3. you're telling me that Jeff Stein completely mischaracterized a direct quote

Link to tweet

[Budi]

4. He stated his opinion on priorities. COVID control via Vaccines is it.

And I cannot argue with that.


United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State
Reported to the CDC since January 21, 2020

*TOTAL CASES
21,539,398
+279,401 New Cases

*AVERAGE DAILY CASES PER 100K IN LAST 7 DAYS
68.7

*TOTAL DEATHS
364,029
+4,180 New Deaths

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days
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Problem is, Trump has left America with a long list of #1 Priorities.

[comradebillyboy]

11. I'm just highlighting that Jeff Stein, the author of the Vox piece

attacking Manchin, has a history of grossly mischaracterizing quotes by Democrats to make Democrats look bad. The twitter thread I linked gives a number of illustrations if you scroll down a bit. I have no problem with Manchin's position. I'd like to have a bunch more red state senators like Joe.

[Budi]

14. Red State Dem Senators, yes. They vote for their State rather than against it.

Yes. I do recognize the Stein problem.

Remember also, the largest investor in Vox Media is Comcast.
Not sure where their influence draws the line, but I'd really prefer, from here on, to see the drama wording of a biased campaign disappear & truth in reporting become the norm.

Its not really that hard to do.
After 4 yrs of media bs, we deserve to have a break from the OMG style reporting.

Biden isn't even President yet & they're already starting the drama.
Ugh.

[Budi]

5. Not exactly a "Roadblock". Do better please Media.

Jeesuz...🙄

[Budi]

7. That's NOT what he said nor implied. At all.

AND btw, WaPo, there's no Roadblock to report.

Pick a priority. Thanks for nothing Trump, you fking failure.


(He never ever said he wasn't for Money for aid.)

This is kind of a BFD too.
United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State
Reported to the CDC since January 21, 2020
TOTAL CASES
21,539,398

+279,401 New Cases
AVERAGE DAILY CASES PER 100K IN LAST 7 DAYS
68.7

TOTAL DEATHS
364,029
+4,180 New Deaths

[Kaleva]

8. I'm fine with Manchin. We'll never get a progressive elected in W VA

[Budi]

9. Nor even a moderate! Manchin is as close to a Dem as WVa will allow

If he gives us a majority then that's still a better card to be dealt than an deep dark Red.

We still have ways to work with Manchin.
Maybe more so now with his long time political collegue, Joe Biden.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Manchin only backpedaled when he heard Murkowski may leave GOP caucus. Nt

[Budi]

12. Sounds more like clarifying WaPo's divisive wording.

Doubt it had anything to do with Murkowski

Glad the clarification was made.

My bitch isn't with where Manchin places his priorities between the 2 crises since he's not against either, it's how the WaPo writer chose word it.

There is NO Roadblock.

[AmericanCanuck]

13. Reporters for major sites should not write click-bait headlines

They don't need the desperate clicks like Hill or Politico do.

[Budi]

16. That is the truth. Thank you.

WaPo doesn't have to compete with the type of opinion writers we see on Politico & The Hill.

Appreciate your post

[AmericanCanuck]

15. We Democrats need to realize that Manchin is the best we can get in WV

We are never going to have a squadish person elected there.

Joe Manchin may be a moderate but he is thoughtful and plays ball with the caucus. Without him, ACA would have been abolished.

Yes, he voted to confirm Kavanaugh - but Kavanaugh would have been confirmed anyway. Manchin won his reelection partly because of that vote.

I wish Claire McCaskill and Heidi Heitkamp had voted to confirm Kavanaugh and they too might have been reelected and saved us from Amy Coney Barret if they had.