Current Events > Bernie Sanders says he's ready to open a can of whoopass on Sinema and Manchin

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Bernie Sanders on Sunday sought to turn fire aimed by Democrats at two of their own, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, onto Republican senators he said were pushing an anti-democratic agenda.

Republicans are laughing all the way to election day, the Vermont senator told CNNs State of the Union. They have not had to cast one bloody vote which shows us where theyre at.
But the Vermont progressive also confirmed that he will campaign against Manchin and Sinema, both Democrats, should they face viable primary challengers.
Manchin, from West Virginia, and Sinema, from Arizona, have blocked Democratic priorities including the Build Back Better spending plan and, this week, voting rights reform.
But, Sanders insisted, its not only those two. It is 50 Republicans who have been adamant about not only pushing an anti-democratic agenda but also opposing our efforts to try to lower the cost of prescription drugs, trying to expand Medicare to improve the disaster situation in home healthcare, in childcare, to address the existential threat of climate change.
Youve got 50 Republicans who dont want to do anything except criticise the president and then you have, sadly enough, two Democrats who choose to work with Republicans rather than the president, and it will sabotage the presidents effort to address the needs of working families in this country.
Speaking to NBCs Meet the Press, Sanders insisted the Biden administration made a great start, in part with a Covid relief bill passed with just 50 votes and the casting vote of Vice-President Kamala Harris, but was now bogged down thanks in large part to Manchin and Sinema.

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Some Democrats advocate splitting Joe Bidens Build Back Better plan into separate bills, in order to pass what they can.
Sanders conceded that most such legislation will not pass, given Republican obstruction and the machinations of Manchin and Sinema. Bringing bills to the floor, he conceded, would really be about electoral politics ahead of midterms this year in which Republicans expect to take back the House and possibly the Senate, and the presidential contest in two years time.

Manchin is probably as left as his voters will allow, so it is what it is

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and not the people in their state.

Many of his constituents want him to pass the legislation he is against.

He's going to make them vote on the record... the way their constituents want?

...Most their their constituents are against what they are doing. Many of them are fighting against them and regretting electing them...what the fuck are you on about? they are actively going against what their constituents voted for, genius...

The fuck is Sanders going to do? He couldn't get elected dog catcher in either of those states. He's going to make them vote on the record... the way their constituents want?

He's just going to throw a fit and act like they are beholden to the Democrats across the country and not the people in their state. IE he's going to do fucking nothing to them.

I don't care what whiny polls from hardcore Democrats in purple Arizona or dark red West Virginia say.

I don't care what whiny polls from hardcore Democrats in purple Arizona or dark red West Virginia say. You people are insane if you really think you're going to primary Manchin with a more progressive Democrat. MAYBE you can fuck over Sinema, but if you really think that Manchin isn't by far the best you could hope for out of West Virginia, then you can't be helped.

@ThePrinceFish Manchin's constituents want BBB to pass, you dunce.

I'm pretty sure I already mentioned that I don't give a shit about whatever skewed poll you can dredge out of West Virginia. There are absolutely individual things that people there would like. Too bad they are tied to insane Democrat anti-coal nonsense that would body WV. Again, feel free to primary Manchin with one of your beloved commies. A real conservative Senator out of WV will be nice.

It would put such a smile on my face if we banned coal outright.

I'm pretty sure I already mentioned that I don't give a s*** about whatever skewed poll you can dredge out of West Virginia. There are absolutely individual things that people there would like. Too bad they are tied to insane Democrat anti-coal nonsense that would body WV. Again, feel free to primary Manchin with one of your beloved commies. A real conservative Senator out of WV will be nice.

Manchin is probably as left as his voters will allow, so it is what it is

@ThePrinceFish Manchin's constituents want BBB to pass, you dunce.

I am just staring the democrats likely could not have a hope of getting anyone more left than him in office given the political environment in the state.

Fuck the voters do what is right.

Although pretty sure he had voted against several things the majority of his voters supported and were morally right so fuck him

bahahaha. I guess you don't understand the point of a representative democracy then. People vote for you to represent THEIR interests, not the country's. That's why you are the representative of that state in the US senate.

Nobody is obligated to condemn our environment or democracy to placate "the voters"