Wow! Senator Manchin, you're being an ass of major proportions!

[imanamerican63]

I guess having power is a big thing to you? I rather think it is that you have some big donors in your pocket and you are willing to throw Biden’s agenda into a tailspin? You are becoming a weasel just like McConnell was to Obama. Wake up and get on board! Your statehood is at stake!

[Sherman A1]

1. Being or Is?

I believe he is truly the south end of a north bound horse.

[calimary]

2. Definitely IS.

[BlueJac]

3. Number one turd!

[niyad]

4. I rather think that big donors (especially the extraction industries) have him in their

pockets.

[Historic NY]

5. Biden needs to go to West virginia

w/o Manchin and make a speech. do what LBJ would do

[JT45242]

7. She hasn't sought as much attention...so partially under the radar

Sinema has not gone out of her way to find every microphone, every op-ed opportunity, every camera to self promote that she alone will stand up yo Biden and this spending.

Manchin is clearly in the pocket of people like the Koch's and very visible at it.

Sinema is not as in your face seeking out interviews all the time to thumb her nose at Biden and the party agenda.

[lagomorph777]

14. I don't think she's more popular than Manchin around here.

But folks are specifically reacting to Manchin's more frequently visible outrageous behavior.

[JT45242]

18. Both are unpopular -- but here are a few examples of his op ed foolishness

https://www.wsj.com/articles/manchin-pelosi-biden-3-5-trillion-reconciliation-government-spending-debt-deficit-inflation-11630605657

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_ed_commentaries/joe-manchin-why-im-voting-against-the-for-the-people-act/article_c7eb2551-a500-5f77-aa37-2e42d0af870f.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/joe-manchin-filibuster-vote/2021/04/07/cdbd53c6-97da-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html




I think they are both reprehensible beings who are in the pocket of megadonors who support republican party policies. But, it feels like at every opportunity Manchin finds a newspaper, a TV show, or a radio interview to undermine.

I only found one op ed written by Sinema in the same time frame and it was about the filibuster -- not tanking the for thepeople act or the infrastructure bill. Maybe google let me down, but she is less out front with her opposition to things that will help the people.

[GoodRaisin]

15. There's no double standard here for Sinema and Manchin.

Sinema has been criticized plenty of times for her positions and even the clothes she wears.

But she was not in the news this week for meeting with Biden and rejecting his proposal, Manchin was.

[certainot]

8. we still have enough of a democracy that asshats like manchin have to have constituencies to point

to enable the sellouts

from what i've heard it looks like he gives a lot of weight to dittoheads because he sounds a lot like he learnned to rationalize his corruptions by listening to limbaugh or got the talking points from someone who did - in a state like that he and his staff probably get a lot of calls from dittohead climate deniers, 'budget balancers', etc

manchin needs to be associated with limbaugh. and he needs to know trumpism died with limbaugh, and rw radio is going to be falling apart, and so will the made-to-order fake constituencies he uses for leverage.

[UCmeNdc]

9. K&R

[uponit7771]

10. He's running cover for other dems who aren't on board yet

[Marthe48]

11. My m-i-l was a WV girl and she did the same

If she thought she was right, she dug in her heels and nothing in this world would change her mind. I'd see her set her mouth and that was it. I've seen the same look about manchin, and I wish us all good luck.

[twodogsbarking]

12. Is he going to run for President?

[progressoid]

16. And people were worried about the "radical left"

[LAS14]

17. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215865343 nt