Remember the good old days not so very long ago when our Never Trump "allies" were using their MSNBC-adjunct platform to hector Democrats about how we should all be on our knees thanking Sweet Baby Jebus that Joe Manchin was a Democrat, and how lucky we were, and how, if we had any sense, we'd strive to make goofs like him the future of the Democratic party.
Well, as Old King Coal fades into wealthy, ignoble obscurity, he has one knife left with which to shiv his former party in the back. From The Guardian:
Joe Manchin warns Democratic party is ‘toxic’ as he steps down from US Senate
Lifelong Democrat who became independent gives series of warnings to former party and predicts US ‘is not going left’
US senator Joe Manchin, a lifelong Democrat who left the party earlier this year to become an independent and is now stepping down from the Senate after 15 years, issued a series of warnings on Sunday to members of his former party.
“The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of – it’s just, it’s toxic,” Manchin told CNN, saying he had not been able to consider himself a Democrat “in the form of what Democratic party has turned itself into”.
Manchin, a wealthy coal tycoon, said the party’s approach had become censorious and dictatorial to ordinary Americans, and he blamed progressives for the shift...
And then, having performed the ritual hippie punching, comes the inevitable...
But he also said he believed it is time for a third party in the US – called the American party – that would serve as center ground for moderate Democrats and Republicans.
“The centrist-moderate vote decides who’s going to be the president of the United States. And when they get here, they don’t govern that way. Neither side does. They go to their respective corners,” Manchin said.
“If the center had a voice and had a party that could make both of these – the Democrat, Republican party – come back, OK, that would be something.”
The coal-ash heap of history awaits you, Senator.
Either that, or an offer to head up Trump's EPA.
His Ecosystem Plundering Agency.
To make things, y'know, all "bipartisany".
The "American Party", huh?
ReplyDeleteSo he's ditching his public alter-ego and revealing the real persona: Zell Manchin.
ReplyDeleteI hope ol’ St. Nick shoves one of those lumps of coal down Scrooge McManchin’s own throat this Xmas.
ReplyDeleteJoe embraced the right, not huts the right but the extreme looney right. He saw nothing wrong with the stuffing of the SCOTUS with Billionaire owned Federalist Society biased justices.
ReplyDeleteNever considering the balance of a court would be important.
He found found the littlest issues to oppose Democrats moving legislation in a tight majority.
Mt sure why McConnel bothered running a republican against him/
Perhaps Joe an Seminar can now spend more time together once they leave Congress.
I am sure Joe has room on his yacht for her.
Time to present fresh talent / As was done in Arizona to replace Senima. with someone that doesn't change into a "independent" thinking it would please those who voted for her like that change pleased the lobbyists that was bribing her.
But who will now be there to protect Joe's coal investments?
He and Mitt Romney's senate girlfriend also buggered the Democrats one last time before they were shown the exit by blocking Biden's NLRB pick, so Fergus can fuck that up also.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine