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Good to see the gloves coming off. Way to go Bernie. Thanks for saying, what we all feel.
The time for “playing nice” with this fossil-fool should be over. Dems gave Joe Manchin nearly everything he wanted — and he’s still backing out.
It’s time to make him own his own conniving betrayal: Joe Manchin is NOT as good as his word. Not by a country mile.
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“[Manchin] has sabotaged the president’s agenda,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said on ABC’s “This Week.”
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Manchin’s reluctance to pass the [Democrats’ party-line spending] bill after months of negotiations has infuriated Democrats who contend the spending bill is desperately needed to fight climate change.
Sanders on Sunday did not hold back his frustration, claiming that “people like Manchin” are “intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want.”
“The problem was that we continued to talk to Manchin like he was serious; he was not,” Sanders said. “This is a guy who’s a major recipient of fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25 Republican billionaires.”
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It would be smart if President Biden called Senator Manchin privately, and have a Joe-to-Joe chat. Bluntly ask him:
Heh man, what’s the deal? We gave you the concessions you wanted — and you’re still backing out? That’s not how this is support to work — the American People voted ME as President, not you, man. Time to get with the program, Joe.
And if the private call doesn’t work, make the same demands publicly. Perhaps from a train stop, in Charleston, West Virginia. Then from the location of the Flooding Emergency, that just happened in McDowell County, West Virginia. Ask the citizens of WV if they want more flooding like this in their future? — because THAT is what their Senator has just decided to vote for.
What does Biden have to lose, except for his very popular Agenda? And any possibility of slowing down the gargantuan costs of Climate Change, getting worse by the year.
The American people like a Leader who fights for what they believe in — even if that means “playing hardball” every once in a while.
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