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Manchin says he will vote against Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill
- Sen. Joe Manchin said he will vote against the sweeping federal election reform bill introduced by congressional Democrats.
- The decision by the moderate West Virginia Democrat essentially guarantees the legislation will fail to pass in Congress.
- The bill, also known as S.1, would require a minimum of 10 GOP votes to move past the filibuster and move to a final vote on passage.
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 6, 2021
The media must feel sheepish. For five years they treated every rally the Last Guy held as Big News, breathlessly reporting on how many of the slack-jawed gathered for his hatefests while rarely noting that, as a stump speaker, he’s dreadful — rambling, disjointed, frequently turning to his greatest hates for cheap applause. When it […]
Pence agrees with Trump on “election security” but doesn’t agree that he should be hanged by a mob
As with most things dealing with the GOP, there are jokes-a-penty to be made at the expense of Mike Pence trying to curry favor among the very voters who wanted to hang him on January 6th. And yet, Pence has a valid point.Jan. 6th was “a dark day in the history of the United States […]
Coonsian
I would add Chris Coons and Joe Biden to the list of Dems who don’t grasp the reality of what Republicans are trying to do, but otherwise, Michelle Goldberg does a good job with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema: On Tuesday, Sinema, touring migrant facilities with her Texas Republican colleague John Cornyn, defended the filibuster […]
The sickeningly predicable failure of the Biden administration
The bad lefties were bad and made the very reasonable Republicans mad. Joe’s poor hands were tied, and on and on… When The Approval Falls The instant Biden’s poll numbers start falling, “everyone” will be quite sure it’s because he was too much of a lefty, and the “adjustment” will begin, and then a governing […]
Some Democrats are addicted to losing – Joe Biden is one of them
Fuck this weak-ass, pointless bipartisan shit. “The President is engaged in good faith with both parties in Congress to deliver historic infrastructure investments that will drive economic growth, produce the clean technologies of the future and create good-paying jobs,” a White House official told Vox. Good faith.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 5, 2021
Federal Judge Strikes Down Cali’s Assault Weapons Ban. Calls the AR-15 assault rifle ‘…a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.” One of Dubya’s judges. Sinema Supporter: Back Filibuster Or Get Out. Right, like she’s gonna take that advice. Are Political Ads Getting It All Wrong? Very few, if any, seek to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 4, 2021
The Second Amendment And Slavery: Perfect Together? Worthy of a REV podcast…here’s the gist of this historian’s argument: In her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans’ treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states: […]
Lessons Learned
These were fun stories while they lasted:
Jan 29, 2021 — ‘Played’ by GOP in the Obama era, wary Democrats and Biden go big …“We have learned from past crises that the risk is not doing too much.
Song of the Day 6/3: Paul McCartney, “Another Day”
When the Beatles broke up in 1970, fans blamed Yoko Ono first and foremost. But the band member who took the most heat was Paul McCartney, mostly because he was the first one to publicly announce his departure. Critics soon made him a whipping boy because his first solo album, a low-key, mostly acoustic set, […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, June 3, 2021
All of us who thought Biden for President was a dreadful mistake are settling down for a hearty meal of crow these days — Smilin’ Joe turns out to be the GOP’s bane, and for a very simple reason: They’re having a devil of a time demonizing him. The evidence comes from the hothouse world […]
Lumber prices are up 240% year-over-year
There are supply constraints, for example, sawmills cut production and inventory at the beginning of the pandemic, and the West Coast fires in 2020 damaged privately-owned timberland. And there has been a huge surge in demand for lumber. Tariffs on Canadian lumber were raised, then lowered but last week, the Commerce Department released a preliminary […]
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