@mkraju: Just spoke with Manchin. Suggests Build Back Better bill needs a lot of work to earn his

[riversedge]

A while back Manchin said delay it, Now says needs lots of work. I have a dreaded feeling, the bill will go nowhere for a LONG time, then watered down till tasteless. Then might pass. Might

MEANWHILE--OUR VOTING RIGHTS BILL SITS WAITING.



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Just spoke with Manchin. Suggests Build Back Better bill needs a lot of work to earn his support still. Also says he’s speaking with Biden as soon as today.

Link to tweet

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[onecaliberal]

1. Let's hear about how happy you all are that he's obstructing a great bill to water it down.

I wonder what the meeting with republicans this weekend was about? Maybe he should be meeting with Democrats. How does anyone defend this?

[berni_mccoy]

2. Been saying this for a long time now. No one here wants to hear it

Manchin will never support this bill. Unless we get some R defectors, it’s going nowhere.

[DURHAM D]

3. What do the Republicans have on him?

Drugs? Minors? Boys?

Oh..... even worse - COAL !

[Bettie]

4. He got what he wanted (the infrastructure bill), so he

has no reason to vote for anything else.

That's why it was going to be linked to BBB...but, of course, that was somehow bad.

There won't be a BBB bill unless it gives extra cash to billionaires and fossil fuel companies, yes, we need his vote, but the price of that vote is taking out everything that will help people who aren't the 1%, maybe the .01%.

[SunImp]

15. It is looking that way

[WHITT]

5. Manchin

has the BIF he wanted, has his yacht, has his Maserati, and has his half a billion dollar coal deal. He don't need no damn BBB.

The only move that will work is if Biden PAUSES the release of any infrastructure funds from the BIF for WV until the BBB is enacted.

[DanieRains]

6. The People Of West Virginia Don't Need Nice Things

Like teeth.
Health care.
Glasses.

Thems Soshilust stuff.

It's just sad that his constituents only vote for people who want to help the wealthy get richer.

[PatSeg]

7. "To earn his support"?

He sure is full of himself. All the power he holds seems to have gone to his head.

[jalan48]

8. The fossil fuel industry says, "Well played".

[doc03]

9. The BBB bill is dead. nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Schumer should schedule the vote, let Manchin vote it down, then move on to voting rights.

Time to quit fucking around.

Voting rights bill is the only thing that will give democracy a chance to survive.

[qazplm135]

11. Manchin won, so just concede defeat

Ask him what he will vote for, tell him he can write the bill himself, sign it and move on.

Then declare victory and work to elect more Senators to make him irrelevant.

We elect Feingold and he wouldn't matter. We win in Maine and he doesn't matter. We're stuck here because we made him relevant by not winning enough races.

The alternative is to drag this out six months only for him to say sorry just can't do it right before the election. Which is what we all know is going to happen. So, rip the band-aid off now and move on.

It sucks but he won, minimize the damage.

[maxsolomon]

13. I'd assume they have asked him to write it, or edit, or make his stance clear

Sinema, too.

Neither of them appear to be capable of anything but stringing the rest of the party along.

[qazplm135]

18. I doubt they have gone so far

as to say, here, you write what you can agree to.

They've been bombarding him with pleas for adding this or adding that, which I totally understand, but it's time to realize that's all a waste of time and just delaying the inevitable.

Get him to agree to 1.5 trillion dollar something, whatever it is he wants and Sinema can agree to, and move on.

It's do it now, or it's do it later.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. This is why I'm laser focused on Voting Rights

Both JLVRA and FTP.

I would have liked to get the SALT cap lifted for a few years - but it's not going to happen. So - I at least want a dominating Senate so we can shove around Manchin, Sinema, and the GOP Senators.

Only way to have a shot next year is all eligible American Citizens having the franchise.

[SunImp]

14. Manchin is going to gut it even more than he had already

[budkin]

16. Progressives were right to not want to decouple those bills

They knew this would happen.

[LiberalFighter]

17. How has he tried to improve it? And when? The answers?

He hasn't tried and not when it was needed.

[uponit7771]

19. Yeah, Manchin is 100% full of shit and is not going to keep his word ... jus damn