Sen. Manchin With One Foot Out The Door

It's now or later - the always interesting and sometimes reliable David Corn reports that Sen. Manchin aired a plan to ease on out of the Democratic Party. The current point is to pressure Biden, Pelosi and Schumer on the package formerly known as the $6 trillion social infrastructure bill. Manchin wants to to cap it at $1.75 trillion and apparently expressed major philosophical differences with his party:

Manchin has repeatedly said he has a significant philosophical difference with most of his fellow Democrats. He has told reporters that he believes major programs in the Build Back Better bill would move the United States toward an “entitlement mentality” and that he cannot accept that. In a recent meeting with Biden, Manchin told the president that he sees government as a partner with the public not the ultimate provider, according to people who heard the senator’s account of the conversation. He explained to the president that in his view Biden didn’t win the presidency last year by championing progressive proposals, and he pressed the president to recall his campaign promise to bring people together. He also reminded Biden that he has vowed not to support any package unless it contains the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, except in cases of incest or when the life of the mother is at risk.

Left up in the air is whether Independent Joe would caucus with the Dems and leave Sen. Schumer as Majority Leader (for now) or swing a deal with Cocaine Mitch and join the Republicans. Time will tell but let me note this - Manchin will get a better deal with Mitch now then he will after Nov 2022 if the Republicans win back the Senate without him.

As to what will be won by whom come Nov 2022, we are in or around coin-toss territory. But there is a lot of time left, obviously.

Comments

[GUS]

Davod, my Air Force Academy 2021 honors graduate, and her brother (my nephew) attended Loudon County schools, during one of my Brothers stateside terms at the State Dept. Then, THEY LIVED in STONERIDGE near Dulles. My NIECE also attended COLUMBINE, in Littleton Colorado, as a FRESHMAN years later.
LOUDON COUNTY is a CESSPOOL of RELATIVELY WEALTHY GOVT LIFER EMPLOYEES. If Americans understood the compensation, and the WORKER BEE drone mind set of the FEDERAL GOVT in Northern Virginia, and Suburban Maryland, they'd puke.
My brother served in the AIR FORCE, first as a non-com private (with a UNIVERSITY DEGREE), then after a couple years in SPEC OPS, he was COMMISSION a LT, after OFFICER SCHOOL at Maxwell AFB, in Alabama. He flew an F-15 for approx 10 years, and left as a MAJOR, after being recruited to the STATE DEPT. He is eligible to retire on his 50th Birthday early next year. He has spent the greater portion of his post College life, overseas, as USAF and STATE DEPT DIPLOMATIC SECURITY. He has seen it all. He protected SEC/STATES and as a field agent in Jordan, Iraq, a few other places I can't speak of, and 3 years in Surinam. He's getting out, and has some EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE opportunities. He's earned it and is extremely disciplined. Most federal workers are worker bees. They LIKE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, have ZERO IDEA how fortunate they are.

[jim nj]

https://pjmedia.com/columns/victor-davis-hanson/2021/10/21/sheer-chaos-and-anarchy-on-the-border-n1525658

Sheer Chaos and Anarchy on the Border?

[jim nj]

https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/data-is-stubborn?r=ixt4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

Data Is Stubborn
Red States Are Leading The Way

Charting unemployment rates by state.

Little surprise that:
NY and NJ are tied at next to last
and
NV and CA are tied at last.

Lock-downs will do that. And all four have significant tourist sectors in their economies. Fear will affect that.

[Davod]

Gus. I agree with everything you wrote in your 12:40 AM. The world is upside down.

[Pinandpuller]

Kim Basinger. Wow, she really dodged a bullet.

[Pinandpuller]

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[Pinandpuller]

Something conservatives do not understand, you can be factual and logical about EVERYTHING and it will have no effect on if you win or lose. You are not in a war of ideas right now, you are in a total war for your people's survival. You have been tricked by controlled opposition into thinking the system functions incorrectly, and if you point out its logical fallacies it will be forced to correct itself.

The truth is the system functions perfectly for our enemies, because they want us subjugated or dead. Pointing out their inconsistencies only marks you as a dissident who needs to be crushed. Facts and logic do not matter to the system, no more than things like honor or dignity do. If your ideas are not backed up by force and the ability to organize that force, you will never win no matter how correct you are.

@TheWesternChauvinist.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Good morning. Working on my first cuppa.

Carpe Diem!

[clarice]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/22/the-ideology-behind-bidens-disastrous-first-nine-months/

[Jack Lillywhite]

Clalrice's VDH article at 7:35 is must read.

IMHO, in the first nine months of FJB we have entered the portal of becoming a 3rd world country.

Let's Go Brandon!

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Jack, are you coming down for the meetup? You were leaning yes.....

[Narciso]

kat timpf the ditz on gutfeld, pointed out that shambling man, was given the questions, and yet he still flaked before vanderbilt,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Kim Basinger. Wow, she really dodged a bullet.--

Heh.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Don't know who The Western Chauvinist is but he's exactly right.

[Narciso]

yes very much so,

https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/bill-de-blasio-gifted-talented-hutu-militia/

[Narciso]

is this your card,

https://dossier.substack.com/p/whitewash-are-us-government-health

[Len]

Shatner featured in Week in Pictures.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/the-week-in-pictures-supply-chain-edition.php

[Narciso]

winning the future

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/23/watch-moranos-full-25-min-speech-on-climate-lockdowns-at-heartland-skeptic-conference-in-las-vegas/

[Narciso]

he occasionally hit the right target

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/22/watch-7-alec-baldwin-movies-where-he-carried-a-gun-from-hunt-for-red-october-to-the-departed/

[Narciso]

yep

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/22/three-teacups-and-a-tempest/

[Narciso]

satire is dead,

https://nypost.com/2021/10/20/students-fund-the-taliban-video-shows-college-kids-gone-woke/

[Narciso]

interesting

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/why_is_no_one_talking_about_fxs_impeachment_series.html

[Narciso]

oh,

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1451736720475578371

[MissMarple2]

Len,

That was an exceptionally great TWIP! Thanks!

[Len]

MM2 - I don't contribute much so I'm glad you enjoyed what was a pretty good WIP.

[Narciso]

what a strange world in which we live in, len,

[Jack Lillywhite]

Stephanie,

Doesn't look like it since we are packing up our Southampton house we sold and we also need to take care of the Beagles. Wish I could and wish everyone a great kraćk.

[Narciso]

oh

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/lithuania-vaccinated-75-of-its-adults

[Davod]

From ACE:

"You need to understand the difference between WANT and NEED. Like I want ABS but I neeeed donuts."

[Jack Lillywhite]

Matt is pretty subtle today:)

[Jack Lillywhite]

Of course my 11:15 should have spelled craic correctly.

Where did that correction come from Planet 9?

[Davod]

They make it too easy for the ratbags. Political prisoners after 1/06 was a start. Now this.

"Putin Slams U.S. for Deleting Its History, Calls Transgenderism a 'Crime Against Humanity'"

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/landonmion/2021/10/23/putin-slams-us-for-deleting-its-history-calls-transgenderism-a-crime-against-humanity-n2597918

[Davod]

Another good reason to wear a mask.

https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/cb102021dAPR20211019054526.jpg

[Davod]

I stopped looking at Powerline pics when they barred me. I just found this to help me pass the day on Saturday:

https://townhall.com/political-cartoons

[Davod]

Narciso:

From your 11:19 - The punch line.

"Lithuania vaccinated ~75% of its adults and instituted a very strict vaccine pass program…

Oh. 3,000 new cases [in one day] as of yesterday? 100 times the level in July? The equivalent of more than 350,000 in the United States?..."

[Narciso]

ceti alpha 6

[Narciso]

baldwin cowrote the script with the director joel souza,

[Narciso]

sure why not,

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1451938667333890052

[DCSCA]

"I've been there before. I know it well." - Joe Biden

[ ] Baskin Robbins

[ ] bunker bathroom

[ ] southern border

[ ] Scranton

[ ] Wilmington

[ ] WH bathroom

[ ] 1975

Choose.

[DCSCA]

Bien to postpone release of JFK assassination papers until December, 2022---- after the midterms.

Why?

[MissMarple2]

Jack,

Another Fauci beagle torture experiment story has surfaced on Twitter today. I am not linking it because it is horrible and. i am not sure it is true.

If it is, Fauci should be executed.

[MissMarple2]

I see Narciso already linked it. Ugh!

[MissMarple2]

DCSCA,

Maybe CIA/FBI/DNC involvement?

[DCSCA]

MissMarple-- The timing is just odd.

59 years-- what would matter now? Pretty much every adult associated w/it is gone. It only adds to the aura of his incompetence. THey can't delver toys for Xmas; they can't withdraw toops w/o abandoning billion worth of equipment and they can't release some boxes of papers.

[Davod]

From Ace.

Crap, we've got carpenter ants.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/carpenter%20ant%20cartoon.jpg

[Len]

NEW

[Narciso]

even dr frankenstein say, sorry this goes too far for me,