Two Senate Democrats whose support is needed to pass POTUS legislative agenda are looking more each day as USA sell-outs.
Pursuing bipartisanship in Congress is admirable but knowing it’s headed for a dangerous dead-end is destruction for American Democracy.
Perhaps it is now time for President Biden to stop trying to be Mr. Rogers and turn into Mr. Robinson. Democratic leaders should make Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and every other senator vote on the real Build Back Better bill.
Have Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin chosen to become turncoats? Have they made this move at the worst time in history? Do Republicans pose an existential threat to democracy? Ask the turncoats.they appear to share a nasty arrogance.
If @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema are selling out and know what they’re doing it’s astonishing.and grandiose.
A turncoat is basically a traitor. Turncoat comes from the ancient practice of wearing a badge or pin on one's coat signifying the party or leader you supported. But by turning their coat, quite literally hiding their real allegiance to others.
Are these two bettings that US House of Representative progressives will bail on their “no climate, no deal” pledge to hold out, but also that Democratic leaders will capitulate on anything and everything.
Do Sinema and Manchin hope that trolling the bill in the press will prompt party leaders to once again hack away at the legislation before the two senators are ever put on the spot to vote yes or no?
Was Manchin’s and Sinema’s plan to get everyone focused on the ‘Build Back Better’ bill while the US Senate quietly killed the voting rights bill? Consider the following system in which 41 Republican Senators, representing just 21 percent of the USA population stops voting rights legislation backed by 70 percent of Americans. Is Democracy breaking down?