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

[Len]

Clarice - very worthwhile essay but as the country has gone left, calm, reasoned responses have not only left the building, they have left the country.

[Narciso]

indeed,

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVSq2zJDzwX/?utm_medium=share_sheet

[Narciso]

so capitol peacemakers may have killed at least two protesters, the suppressed footage suggests that, but bannon is the one who is in criminal contempt,

[henry]

And now, a magnesium shortage. Which impacts all things made of aluminum: cars, beer cans, siding, foil hats…. Yes a foil hat shortage is upon us.

https://jalopnik.com/the-car-shortage-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse-1847892481

[Narciso]

they'll probably get time served,

https://freebeacon.com/courts/ivy-league-firebombers-pled-guilty-face-10-years-under-terror-law/

[Narciso]

oh

https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/21/why-is-the-biden-administration-hiding-whos-running-the-department-of-justice/#.YXFwNe11eYM.twitter

[Narciso]

yep

https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1451055839825985545

[Narciso]

i don't think there are too many transgenders among bratva al queda or pla, do you?

[Jane]

Wow! I’m watching the AG hearing and it has already started very badly. Dems shutting down Republicans.

How the hell can this happen in our country?

[Narciso]

they ran interference for holder, who ran guns to the cartels, nothing new here,

[Narciso]

crt was holder's 'honest conversation on race' remember, garland is just holder in white face

[henry]

Zuck’s project handed off to DOJ.

@vickimckenna

Federal Agencies plan to create taxpayer funded programs to target ONLY black voters in GOTV efforts (on behalf of dem candidates)

https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/federal-agencies-unveil-plans-to-combat-anti-voter-burdens-faced-by-people-of-color/

[James D.]

How the hell can this happen in our country?

Because almost all the GOP we send to Congress are cowardly worthless crooked uniparty trash who don’t give a crap about anything except increasing their bank accounts and getting invites to the best parties, and in a sane world we’d be building guillotines on the National Mall to deal with them.

[Narciso]

progs will throw scat, and yell squirrel that's what they do,

[Narciso]

back then, they didn't think of calling the tea party, literal terrorists, but they came close,

[Narciso]

jerald jabba nadler who had clinton spring an actual terrorist who tried to blow up the capital, the godmother of so called black lives matter,

[Davod]

I am the only person who thinks there is a group out there sitting around a table saying "What shall we do to F..k up the country this week"

“Western Carolina University has added 12 different pronoun combinations to the student learning management system portal, Canvas. Some of the added pronoun combinations include (Ze/Hir), (Fae/Faer), (E/Eir), (Ve/Ver) and (Xe/Xem).”

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18324

[Davod]

Pinandpuller - or the lash!

[Davod]

The left is probably coming for these:

"This statistic is having a panic attack: There are over 900 streets in America named after Martin Luther King."

[Neo]

Level 5 atmospheric river to unleash flooding across drought-stricken California

After nearly a year without rain, a series of potent Pacific storms are directed at Northern California this week, potentially bringing as much as a foot of rainfall and up to three feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada.

[Davod]

Narciso: Part of Don Surber's post:

"Peter Navarro recently stated that they knew these vaccines were leaky vaccines and that the Trump Administration plan was to use these as targeted vaccines for the most vulnerable in combination with therapeutics. We were told nobody would be forced to take the vaccines.

"We now know how to better treat the disease and that there are viable therapeutics available that are being squashed by the government, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Mainstream Media. There have been over 700,000 very serious adverse effects reported from the Covid vaccines, including over 15,000 deaths..."

[Davod]

Pinandpuller: Your "When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agricultural Secretary Orville Freeman told him not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs.”

Remember Fauci admitting that the reason he originally said that the public didn't need to wear masks was to ensure there were enough masks for those in the health professions.

[Narciso]

so it is a thing

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/3/2/445

but level 5?

[Davod]

A headline on Just The News:

"Congress
Kansas GOP Senator Marshall introduces bill to halt grants going to gain of function research"

Didn't Congress already ban funding for this?

[Narciso]

i think it failed in conference, the sausage making machine,

[Narciso]

in lawrence wright's tds driven attempt to copy crichton, the villain turns out to be an extinctionist earth firster type who worked at the cdc,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Level 5 atmospheric river to unleash flooding across drought-stricken California--

Very unusual for CA in October. I predict another dry year. Thats what usually happens when we get a wet fall. Not always but more often than not.

[Davod]

Narciso. I should have emphasized- didn't they ban funding years ago!

[Davod]

Ignatz. A pity they stopped building dams and started demolishing them.

[Davod]

Finally, someone wrote, "Hillary's [Read the Clinton's] old bag man, Terry McAuliffe, is seeking election to a post he once held."

I was beginning to think my memory was fooling me.

[Narciso]

what the heck,

https://twitter.com/pepejackson

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Yes it is Davod, yes it is.

[Narciso]

no it's dejavu all over again, maybe they won't steal it this time,

[Narciso]

justine diamonds killer, gets 5 years,

[Davod]

Unarmed Marine Corps veteran vs. armed thug trying to rob a gas station ends just how you think it would.

Don't think. Do.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/10/21/unarmed-marine-corps-veteran-vs-armed-thug-trying-to-rob-a-gas-station-ends-just-how-you-think-it-would/

[DCSCA]

At the Garland hearing, Rep. Pramila Jayapal just accused the 1/6 crowd of attempting to "overthrow the government."

Really?

Looked more like the final scene of 'Animal House' sans Senator Blutarsky driving off with Nancy Pelosi. Except, of course, to Ashli Babbitt.

"Officer! Officer! They're looting the Food King!" - Katy [Karen Allen] 'Animal House' 1978

[Narciso]

that was some teacher in indian headdress because,
drugs probably,

[DCSCA]

"jerald jabba nadler who had clinton spring an actual terrorist who tried to blow up the capital, the godmother of so called black lives matter"

Narciso, he use to carry a lot more weight in Congress. ;-)

[Narciso]

yes but they didn't even raid the commissary,

[Narciso]

sorry about that,

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1451228066416574469?s=20

[clarice]

https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/us-ukraine-policy-may-wreck-nato/

[Narciso]

oh

http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/katie-hill-congresswoman-at-the-center-of-throuple-scandal-is-having-a-child-with-the-reporter-who-ran-interference-for-her/

[Davod]

It's about time!

EXCLUSIVE: UNC course says WWII was 'Japan's attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism'

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18036

[Narciso]

yes, you have to be deeply ignorant of russian history to demand that, they have fought some 6 wars over that territory,

[Narciso]

shirley

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/21/u-s-attorney-general-merrick-garland-refuses-doj-ethics-review-claims-conflict-of-interest-ethics-rules-do-not-apply-to-biden-administration/#more-218800

[DCSCA]

'--Level 5 atmospheric river to unleash flooding across drought-stricken California--'

Backdoor predictions to affect agricultural costs, food prices, water rates, electric grid repairs and real estate.

CA has been as dry as a bone for more than a decade. Businesses and residents are leaving. With gas at $5+/gallon, food prices soaring, gated communities for the wealthy, strip malls and trailer parks for the lower middle class; sweltering temps and illegals swarming in to hide in the plethora of sanctuary cities across the state... it's holy mess.

_______

How this imbecile POTUS keeps pitching $3.5 trillion won't cost anything is simply terrifying. Brain-damage 101.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I guess that Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere was just a thing, huh?

The revisionism and historicism is really that blatant these days. Nevermind the fact that the Muslims and Hindus were regularly warring and butchering each other in India and that suttee was the norm and Maharajas had absolute power; the same in most of the pre-colonial societies.

The Europeans did exploit their colonies but getting the US mixed up in it is bullshit. The Japanese from 1867 played off the various Western countries against each other and were quite successful while China remained an old, sick empire exploited by all.

Out here Garcetti just removed a statue of Fr. Serra in LA and the Church has said nothing so far although the Archbishop did denounce the leftists for their propaganda a while back.

Unfortunately, they nibble at the edges and do their best to sneak through their agenda. CRT is perhaps the most illustrative example.

White man bad. Murderous POC's good.

[Narciso]

that's before they shipped him off to delhi, in usual circumstances that's an act of war,

[matt - deplore me if you must]

supposedly a 2nd I-N-Out is resisting the San Francisco Karens. The only problem with that narrative is that I-N-Out is closely held, so any directives come from the owner, Lynsi Snyder, who is a very conservative born again Christian.

[Narciso]

do they really want the dark knight's gotham as a goal,

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/10/indiana-senator-to-chicago-police-we-will-welcome-you-with-respect-you-deserve-and-no-mandate/

[Neo]

Rep. @LouieGohmertTX1
: "Has any defendant involved in the January 6th events been charged with insurrection?"

AG GARLAND: "I don't believe so."

GOHMERT: "Well that is the word most used by Democrats here on Capitol Hill."

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1451221940144902151

[Narciso]

oh

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10116479/China-tested-SECOND-hypersonic-orbital-nuke.html

[Neo]

The part of National Geographic that is really, really proud of their documentary "Fauci", is owned by Disney

[clarice]

https://www.oann.com/trump-strikes-spac-deal-for-new-social-media-platform-shares-soar/

[henry]

Be careful which precedents you set.

@amoneyresists

BREAKING: House votes to refer criminal contempt charges for Steve Bannon to the D.C. prosecutor. The vote was 211 to 205, with just two Republicans joining Democrats to vote in favor of the resolution.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Yeah, I gave up our families 100+ year subscription to NatGeo when they became politicalyl woke instead of a geographic photo virtual tour guide.

Gave them to the local library for the young people's section.

Barry Bishop was a friend. He chronicled climbing Mt. Everest.

[Narciso]

grosvenor is just rolling over,

https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/21/david-hookstead-show-jonathan-isaac-biden-administration-rights-up-for-negotiation/

[Narciso]

yes it's a full kangaroo or guerilla court, see john vernon or nicholas coster

[Narciso]

james gregory,

[Jack Lillywhite]

At least Issacs doesn't kneel.

[Narciso]

can't confuse jurors with the truth,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10114079/Court-mistakenly-gave-potential-jurors-Ahmaud-Arbery-case-mental-health-history.html

[Narciso]

just more passing gas,

https://twitter.com/RepKenBuck/status/1451260339996266501

[Narciso]

oh

https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1451223005393301504

[Davod]

Let's Go Brandon hits number 1 on Itunes.

[DCSCA]

Reality check: Joeflation...

Grocery store visit today;

Oscar Meyer bacon--- $12.49/14 oz. pkg; London Broil-- $10.00/lb., milk- $3.49/gal.; posted notice: Coca-Cola; Pepsi deliveries suspended "indefinitely"-- supply issues.

And next door, Shell regular- $5.10/gallon.

Conservative right wing ideologues who abandoned their party nomineee out of spite and dislike of his persona voted for this jerkoff and gave us this Carter Redux.

But hey– “principles.” And no mean tweets.

Idiots. To hell with the righty Kristol/Goldberg/French/Charen/Will/National Review never-Trumper ideologues!

Pragmatic Populism rules!

[DCSCA]

Let's see if "journalist" AndyCee drills JoeyBee a new bung hole tonight at the CNN screened and protected 'town hall' or give ol'Uncle Joe a wet kiss pass.

[Narciso]

who would have thought someone charging into someone's shotgun would have issues, that was the spark they tried before george floyd, sorry st. george,

[Narciso]

of course,

https://www.theepochtimes.com/garland-tells-lawmakers-he-missed-leftist-demonstrators-attack-on-interior-department_4061719.html

[Jack Lillywhite]

Narc,

Their focus is on you, me, the right, etc. They could care less about anyone else. Garland is a perfect example of a left wing corporatist without any concern outside his bubble. Until 2024 unless 2022 is a landslide we ae so screwed.

[Davod]

From American Digest.

A Cabinet of Confabulations

We all know the flippety-floppety fabrications. Below is just a sampling:2

“The risk to the American public is low” (January 29, 2020) … 100,000–200,000 Americans could die from it (March 29, 2020) … make that 1.6–2.2 million (March 30, 2020).
Travel restrictions are “irrelevant” in a pandemic (February 26, 2020) … “if you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship” (March 9, 2020) … we should be really careful about lifting travel restrictions (March 31, 2020).
“There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask” (February 17, 2020) … “it is very important for people to universally wear masks” (July 29, 2020) (oh, but wait, the first lie was okay because it was to protect the public health community (June 12, 2020)) … “it just makes common sense that [double-masking] likely would be more effective” (February 2, 2021).
Herd immunity will kick in at 60–70 percent … no wait, 70–75 percent … no wait, 75–85 percent … no wait, 70–80+ percent … no wait, 90 percent (December 24, 2020) … oh, forget about herd immunity, will you (May 5, 2021) … just everybody get vaccinated, dammit (February 21, 2021).
“The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund ‘gain of function research’ in the Wuhan Institute” (May 5, 2021) … “I can’t guarantee” that’s not happening (June 2, 2021).
“[The scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated” (May 5, 2020) … “I am not convinced about [COVID-19 originating naturally]” (May 24, 2021).
And the punchline: “I am consistent. I stick by what I say” (June 12, 2020).

[Jack Lillywhite]

Fauci is our contemporary Goebbles.

[clarice]

https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-who-voted-steve-bannon-contempt-of-congress-2021-10

[Narciso]

quelle surprise,

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/10/huawei-linked-chinas-hacking-paid-500k-brother-top-daniel-greenfield/

[henry]

It’s not a gerrymander when Dem voters live in densely packed blue hell hives. Minimal change from previous maps, going back to the 70s.

@ariberman

While Dems failed to pass Freedom to Vote Act yesterday that would ban partisan gerrymandering, Wisconsin Republicans introduced heavily gerrymandered maps that would give GOP 75% of US House seats & 60% of legislative seats in state Biden won

[clarice]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/now-look-whos-calling-for-family-leave-subsidies-11634847772?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb

[Davod]

Found at Instapundit: "When it’s all over, Biden administration staffers will look back at the wreckage their administration caused like the socialist former East German minister of culture in The Lives of Others after the Berlin Wall fell:

“What is there to write about in this new Germany? Nothing to believe in, nothing to rebel against…Life was good in our little republic.”

From The Lives of Others - Not a training video (2:00 mins).

https://youtu.be/SVwgr2yiW4c

[Narciso]

in an old ted bell tale, 2010, a terrorist group like islamic state, wages war against soft targets in the us and the uk, their final target is the royal family,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10107715/GOP-Rep-Tony-Gonzales-says-100-000-migrants-heading-Central-America.html

[Narciso]

friends don't lead friends take ari berman seriously

[clarice]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/diversity-tyrannical-equity-inclusion-college-marginalized-race-11634739677

[henry]

Hmmm. The micro biome strikes again. I wonder if all that hi fructose corn syrup is behind the change.

Because the new study only found associations, it does not prove that these changes cause aging. Instead, gut bacteria might change after people get older. “We really don't know the chicken or the egg here, but we need to find out,” Pimentel says.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-bacteria-change-as-you-get-older-and-may-accelerate-aging/

[Pinandpuller]

My wife has a yarn winder that made a “ball” that looks like a round bale of hay, so now I’m convinced that’s how the Dutch or whoever figured that out.

[Pinandpuller]

Balers have “knitters” you know.

[DCSCA]

A 'vaccine' with an efficacy of just 4 months then requiring TBD number of "boosters" is not a viable vaccine. You can't rush the science.

We're being suckered by Big Pharma cashing in on the Treasury while chasing a virus that morphs almost monthly.

There's a pill for everything in America. Wait for it. It will come when the $ is right.

[clarice]

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/remains-found-at-fla-search-site-are-brian-laundire-dental-records-confirm-fbi/3342764/

[clarice]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/la-shipping-terminal-operators-say-bidens-24-7-edict-wont-work

[DCSCA]

There are hypoctitical ideological conservatives 'pontifcating' with an obsession over mis-information and conspiracy theories discussed by Tucker Carlson on his TV show.

If Carlson told you one of the sure fire cures for Covid is to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it?

These right wing ideologues are so angry at being displaced-- and terrified tht they're becoming irrelevant as the Pragmatic Populism fostered by Trump expands.

Never forget: 'The United Kingdom's pound sterling was the primary reserve currency of much of the world in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century until the UK almost bankrupted itself fighting World War I and World War II, resulting in the Pound losing its status as the world's most important reserve currency in favor of the United States dollar.'

China hasn't forgot. And it's goal is to surpass the U.S. economy by 2034; which will torpedo the dollar.

Joe doesn't care-- he'll be long dead by then.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Dental records confirm that the human remains recovered at the Florida environmental park are of Brian Laundrie, the FBI said on Thursday.

The FBI's Denver field office released a statement saying that "a comparison of dental records confirmed that the human remains found at the T. Mabry Carlton, Jr. Memorial Reserve and Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park" were of Laundrie.

The partial human remains recovered at the environmental park where Laundrie was last believed to have been a day ago were described as "skeletal," a North Port police spokesperson had confirmed to News 4 earlier in the day. Two senior law enforcement officials also told NBC News that the apparent human remains found during the search included a portion of a human skull.

...

In addition to the human remains, the FBI said investigators found a backpack and a notebook believed to belong to Laundrie near a path at the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park. The agency added that up until recently, the items were underwater, and were only found now that the water had receded -- an investigative boon Bertolino had suggested would help search teams two weeks ago.

=======================
I hope they find alligator marks on the bones. Does that make me a bad person?

[DCSCA]

'https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/remains-found-at-fla-search-site-are-brian-laundire-dental-records-confirm-fbi/3342764/'

"He's dead, Jim." - Dr. Leonard McCoy [DeForest Kelley] almost any episode, 'Star Trek' NBC TV, 1966-1969

[Pinandpuller]

I’ll have you know that Joe Biden commuted over two and a half million felons.

[DCSCA]

P&P- I wanna see him drive an 18-wheeler, work a Polaroid SX-70, feed his Pet Rock and program the clock on a Betamax.

[Pinandpuller]

Hunter hasn’t been to dinner at the big house ever since Uncle Joe told him he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--The partial human remains recovered at the environmental park where Laundrie was last believed to have been a day ago were described as "skeletal," a North Port police spokesperson had confirmed to News 4 earlier in the day. --

Can't we even get slightly literate "journalists"?
Either the buzzards and the gators picked him clean in a day or the order of those words need some serious reshuffling.

[DCSCA]

CNN presents Baltimore Joe…

Coop’s not wearing a mask; neither is Joe. But my God— his make-up is caked on. And right out of the box– ‘the $3.5 trillion is paid for- it won’t cost you a thing.’

He truly must think this is a nation of idiots.

[DCSCA]

WORST.
POTUS.
EVER.

[DCSCA]

Joe poor-mouths again- saying he made just $42,500 and had to raise his kids on that... $42,500 in 1974 = $239,800 in 2021 dollars.

He's an idiot.

[MissMarple2]

DCSCA,

I forgot he was on that town hall tonight. He IS the worst, and I was born in the Truman Administration.

I have been watching antique appraisals on You Tube.

[DCSCA]

"My proposals will reduce inflation!" - President Plagiarist in Baltimore; 10/21/21.

Reality check AGAIN from today: Oscar Mayer bacon--- $12.49/14 oz. pkg; London Broil-- $10.00/lb., milk- $3.49/gal.; posted notice: Coca-Cola; Pepsi deliveries suspended "indefinitely"-- supply issues. And next door, Shell regular- $5.10/gallon.

This jerkoff and gave us this Carter Redux.

He's an idiot. And a bum.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

He's worse than an idiot.
He stands a fair chance of starting a civil war and/or destroying the economy and defaulting on our debt and/or delivering us up to China.
The disastrous, basically insane policies and rhetoric he is pursuing carry the germs that usher in revolutions, massive political realignments and occasionally world wars.
His towering arrogance, invincible ignorance and surpassing corruption only come along combined in one man once or twice a century. He's the Fearless Fosdick of presidents.
Loins girded.

[DCSCA]

The more he talks in those second hand phrases and empty platitudes the worse he sounds.

Biggest damn sh-t-shoveling idiot to ever sit in the Oval. In my near 70 years I've never despised a politician as much as this jerk. He sucked in the early 70s when we'd get his hot air piped into South Jersey on Channel 12 out of Wilmongton-- and blows today.

A total swamp creature. If he was from Florida, he'd have eaten Laundrie's body for lunch.

[DCSCA]

Iggy- Absolutely.

A total lazy brained buffoon.

Hated him for 45 years.