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4. I'm with you. Play hard ball with Manchin and his family's coal mine...

Reply to I_UndergroundPanther (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 2, 2022, 03:26 AM

Jan 2022

shenanigans. Plus there's the hook-up his daughter has with Big Pharma's dirty dealings. And there's Sinema and her fundraising to feather her own pockets.

FDR famously said, "I welcome their contempt" of the rich who called him a traitor to his class. Joe should just go for it...threaten to expose the two holdout senators and if they don't get on board, put their dirty business in the street as we'll never have another chance in decades to get a bill like the BBB done.

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