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brooklynite

(94,598 posts) Sun Jun 6, 2021, 04:45 PM Jun 2021

Joe Manchin supports voting rights...who knew?

Link to tweet

(he reiterated this point on Fox News Sunday this morning)

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Joe Manchin supports voting rights...who knew? (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2021 OP

He's been saying he supports that, it's true. FoxNewsSucks Jun 2021 #1

Will 10 Republicans vote for it? Elessar Zappa Jun 2021 #2

Bullshit- Manchin supports a modified version of HR4 that would be reversed by SCOTUS Fiendish Thingy Jun 2021 #3

And yet... Bettie Jun 2021 #4

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)

1. He's been saying he supports that, it's true.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jun 6, 2021, 04:48 PM

Jun 2021

What he doesn't say is who the 10 republiqons he expects to vote for it are.

Elessar Zappa

(14,004 posts)

2. Will 10 Republicans vote for it?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jun 6, 2021, 04:48 PM

Jun 2021

That’s the million dollar question.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,624 posts)

3. Bullshit- Manchin supports a modified version of HR4 that would be reversed by SCOTUS

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jun 6, 2021, 04:49 PM

Jun 2021

HR4, in its original, constitutional form, was designed as a supplement to HR1.

HR1 is a far broader, more powerful bill, and without it, we’re fucked.

Bettie

(16,110 posts)

4. And yet...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jun 6, 2021, 05:05 PM

Jun 2021

he's eager to preserve the filibuster so that it never, ever comes to a vote.

This way, he is forever both for and against nearly everything.

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