Joe Manchin, please listen carefully to what Mitch McConnell just told you

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Memo to Joe Manchin: McConnell is telling Republicans to oppose the bipartisan 1/6 commission on grounds that it will hurt them in 2022. One party is abandoning democracy. Either Dems will defend it on a partisan basis or it won't happen at all. New piece:

Opinion | Joe Manchin, please listen carefully to what Mitch McConnell just told you
If one party is abandoning democracy, then protecting it in a bipartisan way may not be an option.
washingtonpost.com
7:46 AM · May 21, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/21/joe-manchin-please-listen-carefully-what-mitch-mcconnell-just-told-you/

In our two-party system, one of the parties appears to be in the process of abandoning democracy. By all current indications, that means any meaningful action to safeguard our system against the threat this poses will have to be undertaken by the other party — either largely or exclusively.

Such action, in other words, will likely take place on a partisan basis, or not at all. Will Democrats acknowledge that this dynamic is fundamental to this moment and embrace the responsibility it thrusts on them?

How this gets answered will turn heavily on how Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) answers it. And some important new reporting in the New York Times on deliberations among GOP senators about the Jan. 6 commission should clarify Manchin’s thinking.

Manchin is his party’s leading opponent of ending the filibuster, and a firm believer that any congressional action to protect democracy must have broad bipartisan support. Yet GOP senators appear prepared to filibuster the commission to examine the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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[LakeArenal]

1. How can any of this be? Still in shock.

[bluestarone]

2. He's living in years past!

These (QTHUGLICONS)are NOT Americans anymore. He needs to see that these are RUSSIAN destroyers, on a mission!!

[CincyDem]

3. He is our Neville Chamberlain...

...deluded to believe that appeasing a monster like Mitch will cause him to change his ways.

[Blue Owl]

4. My name is Mitch McConnell, millionaire. I own a Manchin and a yacht.

[IA8IT]

5. Yes, that says it all.

[andym]

6. +1. NT.

[Nexus2]

7. Manchin and those like him are going to have realize that this isn't game, isn't phase or paranoia.

This is the real deal, the gloves are off along with the GOP's mask. They could give a Tinker's damn about democracy, human rights, whatever now they're not useful to maintaining their true goal: Power. Acquiring it, hoarding it and keeping it for as long as possible. And if they have to burn the whole thing down so as to rule over the ashes, so be it.

[DFW]

8. A look at a map explains much. WV is south of Alabama.

That is, if one remembers that „Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.“