Manchin: I Won't Put Up With 'Bulls**t' If Dems Try To Obstruct GOP

[Celerity]

November 11, 2014

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-manchin-block-gop-agenda-bs

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) made in clear in an interview published Monday that he has no plans to support Democrats who want to take a page out of the GOP playbook by obstructing the new Republican majority.

“That’s bullshi—…. I’m not going to put up with that,” Manchin told Politico when discussing the prospect of Democrats blocking the Republican agenda over the next two years.

Manchin didn’t appear to be alone either. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) also talked about the need to get something done.

“Our caucus needs to take a hard look at the way we do things and make sure we are putting the policy issues first before politics,” McCaskill told Politico. “The habit we got into in doing nothing, no one was happy with that. I hope that we never go back to that.”

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Nice reminder.

Too bad that arrogant **** ******* **** ***** doesn't feel the same way about obstructing the DEMOCRATIC majority.

Not that there was any doubt which side he's really on.

[mucifer]

2. he's evil

[marble falls]

3. Or a GOP minority, either.

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. This is why we're doomed.

The GOP has no restrictions or scruples, will fight to the death for what they want and we dither and play stupid games.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. i am going to get banned for this , so the turncoat shows his true colors .

i hope his voters revolt.

[doc03]

6. I think the only reason he still calls himself a

Democrat is he can cause more damage. If he was a Republican he would be just be another Senator from a state with 4 EV.

[Hotler]

7. I can cross Claire off my list of reputable sources

to listen to. I'm not in the mood for right leaning Dems.

[lapucelle]

11. Claire McCaskill isn't right-leaning.

Her voting record as a senator:



Claire McCaskill is a Moderate Liberal
https://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Claire_McCaskill.htm

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For context, here's Cori Bush:



Cori Bush is a Moderate Liberal
https://www.ontheissues.org/House/Cori_Bush_HouseMatch.htm

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And here's Jamaal Bowman:



Jamaal Bowman is a Moderate Liberal
https://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Jamaal_Bowman.htm

[Mad_Machine76]

12. Who cares exactly where she lands ideologically?

She's not helping all the same.

[lapucelle]

14. How exactly does McCaskill having called for comity and good faith negotiation in 2014

hurt us now?

[Mad_Machine76]

16. Were those older comments

or current ones?

[Mad_Machine76]

17. Never mind

I just noticed the date. McCaskill still shows up as a pundit and is usually still not particularly helpful.

[Celerity]

18. That site's methodology and thus the final ideological end product are as useless as tits on a bull.

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I have seen it's ratings posted here (almost always by the same tiny group of posters) since I joined. Its database is often woefully out of date (go look at the data points for the longer-serving Senators and Reps) as well.

It is a joke of a site. To try and use it as some sort of 'gotcha' and also imply that it is a definitive source that concretely settles debate on the actual ideological spectrum of a person is a classic appeal to authority logical fallacy.

[lapucelle]

20. No it's not and no it isn't.

It's among the websites that are recommended (specifically for the voter match quiz) to first time voters at voter registration events in the schools that I work in.

[Polybius]

21. Sometimes it's not only about voting records

Cori Bush is far to Claire McCaskill's left. She actually uses the words "defund the police."

With that being said though, I agree with you that McCaskill was a reliable liberal, and it cost her her Senate seat for it.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

8. It's all

It's all Pro Wrestling. Both sides are actors. This has been the case for over a century.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. Meanwhile Senate Republicans Blocking Biden Pick to Spearhead Capitol Riot Prosecutions, Says Report

Senate Republicans Blocking Biden Pick to Spearhead Capitol Riot Prosecutions, Says Report


Someone need to put a hole in his boat

[walkingman]

10. I've said it forever....never underestimate nasty white people.

[Mad_Machine76]

13. What exactly is planning to do about it?

Also, why does he automatically assume there *will* be a GOP Majority in 2023?


The sooner he's made irrelevant the better (and Sinema).

[marmar]

15. Hey Joe .......

[jalan48]

19. Does the fossil fuel industry support Biden's plan?