Senator Manchin threatens to leave the Democratic Party.

[RB 60]

Senate is very functional. You just hate they're trying to help our nation.

What are they doing to help us?

[Hawkeye10]

I have always till now been against switching parties after elected.

This is not fair to the citizens.

[T. A. Gardner]

Senate is very functional. You just hate they're trying to help our nation.

Democrats are trying to fuck the country and gain more power.

[cancel2 2022]

Yes, give the Senate to the GOP! That'll do wonders for the Democrat agenda...

If he and Sinema migrate to GOP do they take their voting rights with them?

[T. A. Gardner]

I have always till now been against switching parties after elected.

This is not fair to the citizens.

Well, it is and it isn't.

It is in the sense that a politician does it because they ran on a platform and their party is completely out-of-step with that platform. So it is fair to the people that voted for that politician to see them switch so they can get their agenda accomplished as promised.

It isn't in the sense that if people voted for a party rather than the candidate they they aren't getting what they voted for.

[T. A. Gardner]

If he and Sinema migrate to GOP do they take their voting rights with them?

Yep, 100%.

[BidenPresident]

Democrats are trying to fuck the country and gain more power.

by helping people

[T. A. Gardner]

by helping people

...get screwed over. The Democrats are screwing people over.

[Hawkeye10]

Well, it is and it isn't.

It is in the sense that a politician does it because they ran on a platform and their party is completely out-of-step with that platform. So it is fair to the people that voted for that politician to see them switch so they can get their agenda accomplished as promised.

It isn't in the sense that if people voted for a party rather than the candidate they they aren't getting what they voted for.

If we had a functioning polling industry (we dont) I could probably be persuaded if the vast majority of the citizens indicated that they would support the switch.

But I am pretty hard line on this, as well as with these fucks like McCain and Gabby Giffords who decided that it is Just Fine And Dandy to take extended/super extended time off....as they clearly are not capable of the job and likely never will be.

You dont fuck over the voters.

[gemini104104]

I say, heave hoe, leave.

Good at being a poor impersonator of a Democrat who carries all of the un American, seditious and enemy combatant gutter qualities of the repuke insurgency.

[anatta]

The senator was interviewed on CNN tonight and called the these reports of him bolting the party bullshit

thank you for the truth, and no OP link

[anatta]

If he and Sinema migrate to GOP do they take their voting rights with them?

wont happen

[cancel2 2022]

wont happen

They could certainly go Independent and vote unburdened by party affiliation.

[Cypress]

And you believe Manchin. I do not. His actions are obvious.

It seems just as likely to me to be a rumour circulated by Republican hacks trying to coerce Biden-Pelosi-Schumer to prematurely jump the gun, and pass a watered down, totally weak reconciliation bill (or maybe back down altogether) before Manchin "bails" the party.

Manchin himself says the rumours are bullshit.

[Hawkeye10]

That David Corn says so does not make it so. ....Remember he was all in with the CIA's BS claims about Trump ties to Russia.