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xp1337 posted...

And while McConnell caved on the organizing resolution

I keep seeing it characterized as this and I just don't see how anyone can't understand that McConnell got everything he wanted out of the confrontation. With Manchin (and Sinema) publicly committing to keeping the legislative filibuster in place McConnell is in basically the same situation as minority leader that he was as majority leader - that is, not a single piece of legislation he doesn't approve of will pass the Senate. Hell, if he doesn't even want a vote on something it'll never be voted on. As long as the filibuster remains in place, Mitch McConnell remains the most powerful person in the U.S. government.

I can already tell you how this is going to go. Anything Democrats pass in the House will be filibustered and die in the Senate, meaning the Democrats will accomplish absolutely nothing in the next two years and then get shellacked in the midterms and lose both houses. This will lead to absolutely nothing getting done for the two years after that, at which point Biden will be 82 years old and running for re-election with a record utterly devoid of any major accomplishments aside from "cleaned up some portion of Trump's mess". If the Republicans run any reasonably strong candidate in 2024 they're taking back total control of the government.

Fuck Joe Manchin, fuck the Senate, and especially fuck Mitch McConnell.

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