Thursday, December 16, 2021

GET ME REWRITE: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through one of the whitest states

 

A demographic fact not noted in the article cited below.


Washington Post, 12/15/2021

DESPOT OF THE YEAR
The journalists doing the waiting are proxies for a Washington establishment eager to see how the Biden administration plans to make its mark, and for the millions of Americans who care about an agenda that could change the trajectory of a teetering democracy and a warming planet. They wait for the senator from West Virginia to decide the fate of Cabinet-level nominees (sorry, Neera Tanden). They wait for him to agree to stimulus funding in the midst of the pandemic, which he did. They wait for him to find enough Republicans to back a voting rights bill as state GOP officials clamp down on voting access, which he hasn’t. People have mostly stopped waiting for him to nuke the filibuster.

 

Related posts:
Meet Joe Manchin, the fox in the henhouse.  (9/25/2021)
Sen. Joe Manchin talks about West Virginia's patriotic duty.  (10/4/2021)

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