by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
"Democratic" US Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia made a long-anticipated announcement yesterday that he would be retiring from the Senate at the end of his current term. He will not be running for re-election in 2024. The senator's political stunt set Democratic teeth to gnashing as party leaders openly predicted a loss of control of the upper chamber of Congress because Manchin will likely be replaced by a Republican from the very Red state of West Virginia. Others, however, minimized the loss by noting that Manchin has a long history of openly supporting the GOP agenda in the Senate anyway, and suggested that it would perhaps benefit the party in the long run to finally be free of Manchin's subterfuge and self-dealing.
(Now people are worried that Joe Manchin will roil national politics by running as an independent for President, or for Vice-President on a Mitt Romney ticket. If he does, he does, and that is just more proof that Manchin's heart was never in the Democratic Party.)
Maybe, at long last, instead of having to sidetrack important legislation so that the powerbrokers could negotiate with Democrats-in-name-only like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrats in the Senate, the real ones, whether they sit in the majority or the minority, will be able to address legislation in a straight-forward manner without having to detour through the pockets and personal priorities of people like Joe and Kyrsten.
Joe Manchin is leaving the Senate and Kyrsten Sinema has less than a snowball's chance of being re-elected to the Senate from Arizona. May their next careers be more attuned to their personality traits and humanitarian instincts, perhaps as executives in the field of payday lending.
Go away, Joe - and stay away!
1 comment:
Yeah, when I heard about Joe's decision, I thought the only disadvantage with this is that he would presumably vote with the Dem caucus for the party's Senate Majority Leader if ever required again.
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