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Joe Manchin stands as firm as Jabel-al-Tariq

How perfect!

 

Reply to: Re:Axios Interview

    (Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 10 2021, @08:41PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday April 10 2021, @08:41PM (#1135793)

    It is a very necessary prop for political theater. It provides a way to shift blame from the majority in power when they fail to pass needed legislation to get things done. So here, the democrats can continue to blame republicans as if it is their fault despite their minority status. They played the same game even more overtly during the 111th Congress in Obama's first two years. They had to, to keep universal health care *off the table* (Pelosi's words). It cost them 63 seats in congress in 2010 and made Trump possible. But to them, it's all good. The DNC/GOP continues its stranglehold on the process, and easily maintains a 98% reelection rate despite all the publicly displayed angst for the cameras, so the regular back and forth flip between the two means little to nothing.

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