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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans delay everything in order to destroy Democratic agenda -- with an assist from Manchin
https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/manchin/Senate Republicans have been playing a transparent game for months now, using their willing tool of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to drag out negotiations on any number of issues to keep him away from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Joe Biden. To prevent Democrats from moving any significant policies that can help the American people and give Democrats a win. Theyve done it on voting rights and election reforms. Theyve done it on climate and energy.
Its just one tacticand a very successful oneRepublicans are using to keep the Democratic majority tied up and unable to accomplish anything. Case in point: additional funding for the federal COVID-19 effort. Manchins good friend and frequent negotiating partner Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) all but killed it this week when he alleged that the Biden administration lied about the governments ability to secure additional vaccines, treatments, and supplies. Thats because the White House recently announced it was taking money from other priorities to pay for the most pressing needs.
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Washington operates on a relationship of trust between the respective parties, Romney said Thursday,. I hope that theres an appreciation that for the administration to say they could not purchase these things, and then after several months, divert some funds and then purchase them is unacceptable, and makes our ability to work together very much shaken to the core. The pearls are tightly clutched.
The White House, not surprisingly, has a different interpretation on how discussions have been going. Weve tried to meet Republicans on their requests, and they keep moving the goal posts, one official told the Washington Post. Another, spokesperson Kevin Munoz, went on the record. Going back to January, weve been working with members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, on the funding needs for the covid response, he said in a statement. Weve also been crystal clear about the consequences of a lack of funding including the very real possibility that we would have to reevaluate the planned uses of existing funds.
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Celerity
Jun 2022
OP
I'm sorry, but at this point we need to find two or three really craven republiQans
Scrivener7
Jun 2022
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Scrivener7
(51,007 posts)1. I'm sorry, but at this point we need to find two or three really craven republiQans
and pay them a boat load of money to vote with us.
You know they're out there. Probably a dozen of them would jump at the chance if the price was high enough.
Or find the compromat that we could use to harness them.
It's time.
Walleye
(31,055 posts)2. Romney decided that the president is lying?. What a fucking asshole