Do Democrats Keep Falling For It? GOP Squashes Manchin's Compromise

[UCmeNdc]

“Time is one of the most powerful tools that Republicans have right now—wasting time is one of the best things they can do to block Joe Biden’s agenda from being enacted into law. And it’s really critically important that Democrats stop falling for it,” says Indivisible’s Meagan Hatcher-Mays.

[StarfishSaver]

1. What is your plan?

[secondwind]

2. I'm hearing a different story, that Manchin was brilliant in getting them

on record: against early voting etc.

It ain’t over yet, folks.

[GoodRaisin]

8. Yes, I'm sensing this as an encouraging development.

Could be moving closer to removing the filibuster as a block to voting act legislation. At least it gives some new hope.

[betsuni]

3. No.

[agingdem]

4. No...unambiguous statement of fact...

little by little Manchin has boxed himself in and not in a bad way..he's salvaging his reputation with this "compromise"...he probably enjoyed the attention early on but the collective media taking aim at his bipartisan or nothing naiveté made him look out of touch with his constituents and the rest of the country..and then there's Biden's growing popularity..now Manchin gets to play the hero....and McConnell, ever the obstructionist, is coming across as a petulant child...and btw Dems aren't "falling" for a damn thing...we've stopped playing nice...Biden will get this done...

[bullwinkle428]

5. Joe Scarborough told me this morning it was a brilliant maneuver by Manchin.

I guess, therefore, it must be brilliant. In the very next breath, Scarborough told us that all progressives are living in their parents' basements, eating Cheetos.

[ChrisF1961]

6. I resent that.

Would never eat Cheetos, am a Funyuns guy. 😉

Btw Scarborough is an idiot.

[LiveToLurk]

7. Yum! Funyuns!

Now I've got a hankering...... Although Jalapeno Cheetos are pretty good too.

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. I see these events unfolding in perfect synchronicity with Schumer's strategy for next week

I think it only increases the odds that Schumer will force a vote to modify the filibuster to pass a version of the voting rights act that has support from all 50 Dem senators.

We might get a short lived filibuster from Republicans, but if the rule is modified to Manchin’s proposed changes, does anyone think Mitch can muster 41+ senators who will live, and most importantly, talk, in the chamber 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through the August recess in order to sustain a filibuster to block the bill?

If Manchin’s proposed changes to the filibuster are made, we’ll have a voting rights bill by Labor Day.