A former Senate aide and current Senate critic talks about the current stand-off, what it would take to move Manchin, and whether Schumer is trying hard enough.
After coming of age during Bush II, seeing the lack of real change achived under Obama, its become clearer and clearer to me than the Democrats are part of the Republican party. The filibuster is the last thing holding up the facade of an independent two party system. The Democratic - Republican party has a firm a grip on the American political system as the CCP has on China.
Around 24:00, I'm having hard time believing that Manchin is simultaneously smart enough to keep getting elected but not smart enough to understand what everyone else understands, which is that bipartisanship has become a hoax.
Thank you for this! I have been wondering what Jentelson thinks about the current state of affairs with Manchin and the Senate. Haven’t heard him on a podcast since he was on the Josh Marshall podcast several months ago and none of my weedsy podcasts have had him on-and you stepped into the breach. Kudos to you.
After coming of age during Bush II, seeing the lack of real change achived under Obama, its become clearer and clearer to me than the Democrats are part of the Republican party. The filibuster is the last thing holding up the facade of an independent two party system. The Democratic - Republican party has a firm a grip on the American political system as the CCP has on China.
Around 24:00, I'm having hard time believing that Manchin is simultaneously smart enough to keep getting elected but not smart enough to understand what everyone else understands, which is that bipartisanship has become a hoax.
Thank you for this! I have been wondering what Jentelson thinks about the current state of affairs with Manchin and the Senate. Haven’t heard him on a podcast since he was on the Josh Marshall podcast several months ago and none of my weedsy podcasts have had him on-and you stepped into the breach. Kudos to you.