It’s sure clarifying things for another one of those moderates who tends to give the two cover. Montanan Jon Tester is enraged over these shenanigans.
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Sen. Tester: “We’ve got to get to the bottom of this shit. Jesus. It’s a nonpartisan investigation of what happened. And if it’s because they’re afraid of Trump then they need to get out of office. It’s bullshit. You make tough decisions in this office or you shouldn’t be here.”
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) May 27, 2021
Speaking of bullshit, Manchin remains off in his own little world, where he has “faith” that “there’s ten good people” on the Republican side who will take the pressure off of him and do the right thing.
And I don’t even know what this is supposed to be from Sinema.
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Voting rights are fundamental to our democracy and America is stronger when more people make their voices heard. That’s why we are proud to cosponsor the #ForThePeople Act in the Senate. pic.twitter.com/85Db6qv5rP
— Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) May 26, 2021
From the royal “we” to the fact that she could do something to pass the “For the People Act”—nuke the filibuster—but she’s going to keep refusing to do that. At the same time she’s tweeting that out from her personal account, she’s tweeting out her joint statement with Manchin imploring Republicans—literally, “we implore,” they say—to “work with us to find a path forward on a commission to examine the events of January 6th.”
Because that always works.
It works so well that Republicans successfully filibustered the Jan. 6 commission Friday. After wasting an entire day of debate blocking a bipartisan bill they’ve been working for weeks. Because at heart, they’re “good people.”
Six Republicans voted with Democrats on the commission on Friday. Six. Which is not 10, in case Manchin is not good at math. Eleven senators—nine of them Republicans and Sinema—had skipped town already to start their long weekends and didn’t even bother to vote on this. (Sen. Patty Murray, the other missing Democrat, had a family emergency.)
Manchin’s learning from Collins, though, how to sound sincere and fretful. “I’m very disappointed, very frustrated that politics has trumped—literally and figuratively—the good of the country,” he told reporters after Republicans filibustered the commission. That and a quarter will get you a phone call, if you can still find a phone booth.
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