Remove Manchin as Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee

[Galraedia]

Seriously, he can't even find the energy to save voting rights or pass an infrastructure bill. He's also an anti-environmentalist and is only chairman of the senate energy committee because democrats think they can appease him. We can't.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Yes,take away any appointments he has.

Let him be be a pariah along with the other dinos.

[Champion Jack]

8. yup

[secondwind]

2. We shouldn't stoop to his level. I still have hope that Biden

can beat some sense into him.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. It's too late.

[RockRaven]

3. And have him caucus with the Repukes, who would certainly give him that chairmanship in

exchange for getting the majority back? No thanks.

If you want to sideline Manchin, get a 53-47 or 52-48 majority after the 2022 Senate election cycle. Then people can play DINO games all they want.

[roamer65]

7. Or make DC a state.

[Mr.Bill]

9. He won't vote for that either. n/t

[roamer65]

10. ..or force WV to rejoin VA.

[Locutusofborg]

4. He could then switch parties

And have the new majority leader McConnell appoint him as Chair of the Energy Committee as they then take control of every committee.

[stillcool]

6. further damage the Democratic party out of spite?

because you're pissed? Yeah, no, I don't think so.

[monkeyman1]

12. he's useless anyways!! jeez -think about it - republican stool pigeon.

[Blue_true]

11. Yeah, that would work out well.

[monkeyman1]

13. just like a employee dead weight , get rid of em' !

[StarfishSaver]

14. Democrats don't remove committee chairs because they don't vote the party line

That's Republican behavior not ours.

And a time who thinks this is a great idea should consider how they'd like it of a conservative Majority Leader removed a liberal chair because he didn't like how they voted in a bill we cared about.

On top of that, what good would it do? It certainly won't make him change his vote. It could however give him reason to switch to being a Republican - or an Independent who caucuses with Republicans - thereby turning the Senate over to Mitch McConnell who would surely be more than willing to reward Manchin by restoring his committee chairmanships

Leave that kind of low-brow bullying retaliation to the Republicans. Instead of coming up with ways to punish Manchin, we need to be working on ways to make him irrelevant.

[calimary]

15. Maybe better yet, go at it from a different angle: diminish him.

Make DC the 51st state! Squeeze in statehood for Puerto Rico too if at all possible. Just f’ing DO IT, DAMMIT!

That’ll give us two more Democrats in the Senate (for DC) and two more if we get Puerto Rico in there too.

Do an end run around the SOB and take his “I’m IMPORTANT now!” positioning away. Same for Sinema. Then we’ll have a SECURE advantage in the Senate, maybe for awhile, and Manchin and Sinema just simply won’t matter anymore.

Take their “everybody look at ME! I’m a Big Shot!” strut away.

And who the heck do they think they are, anyway? Some cockeyed self-anointed Senate Surreality Scolds?



My kingdom for a Machiavellian or two on our side. We don’t fight as ferociously, ruthlessly, or as deviously - as we should. And we need to.

With apologies to The Who, let’s NOT get fooled again!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

16. Agree 💯