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Good ole "moderate" Manchin?
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:33 am
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:33 am
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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) said in an interview this week that he believes the Senate should consider removing GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), arguing the Republicans were complicit in insurrection when they objected to certifying some Electoral College votes the same day a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in protest of the election results.
In an interview posted Friday, PBS "Firing Line" host Margaret Hoover asked Manchin, "Would you support, Senator, the removal of Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz through the 14th Amendment, Section 3?"
"Well they should look—absolutely—basically, that should be a consideration," Manchin replied, adding, "He understands that. Ted's a very bright individual and I get along fine with Ted. But what he did was totally outside the realm of our responsibilities or our privileges that we have."
Hoover had reminded her audience that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment reads, "No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress...who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
Manchin, a moderate, recalled that while the Capitol building was under siege on Jan. 6 and Senators waited in a secure location before returning to the upper chamber to continue their votes, he tried to persuade Hawley not to continue contesting the election results.
The West Virginia Democrat told Politico the same thing, saying an interview last week that he told Hawley, "please think of what you're doing, please reconsider what you're doing."
Manchin was also critical of Cruz, in particular, for continuing to fundraise on his vow to fight the election results on behalf of President Donald Trump, who has insisted the election was "rigged" against him in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
"There's no way they cannot be complicit in this," Manchin said of the Republican senators that voted against certifying the election results. "That they think they can walk away and say, 'I just exercised my right as a senator?' Especially after we came back here and after they saw what happened."
He added, "I don't know how you can live with yourself right now knowing that people lost their lives."
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) said in an interview this week that he believes the Senate should consider removing GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), arguing the Republicans were complicit in insurrection when they objected to certifying some Electoral College votes the same day a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in protest of the election results.
In an interview posted Friday, PBS "Firing Line" host Margaret Hoover asked Manchin, "Would you support, Senator, the removal of Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz through the 14th Amendment, Section 3?"
"Well they should look—absolutely—basically, that should be a consideration," Manchin replied, adding, "He understands that. Ted's a very bright individual and I get along fine with Ted. But what he did was totally outside the realm of our responsibilities or our privileges that we have."
Hoover had reminded her audience that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment reads, "No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress...who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
Manchin, a moderate, recalled that while the Capitol building was under siege on Jan. 6 and Senators waited in a secure location before returning to the upper chamber to continue their votes, he tried to persuade Hawley not to continue contesting the election results.
The West Virginia Democrat told Politico the same thing, saying an interview last week that he told Hawley, "please think of what you're doing, please reconsider what you're doing."
Manchin was also critical of Cruz, in particular, for continuing to fundraise on his vow to fight the election results on behalf of President Donald Trump, who has insisted the election was "rigged" against him in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
"There's no way they cannot be complicit in this," Manchin said of the Republican senators that voted against certifying the election results. "That they think they can walk away and say, 'I just exercised my right as a senator?' Especially after we came back here and after they saw what happened."
He added, "I don't know how you can live with yourself right now knowing that people lost their lives."
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Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:35 am to Crimson Wraith
Manchin is a Liberal fairy boy.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:36 am to Crimson Wraith
Soi based bandwagon virtue signaling move.
Baseless. Spineless. Look at me bull shite.
Baseless. Spineless. Look at me bull shite.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:39 am to Crimson Wraith
Hawley should respond with “The Capitol riot is a myth.”
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:41 am to Crimson Wraith
quote:
But what he did was totally outside the realm of our responsibilities or our privileges that we have.
When it comes to authority to act under the constitution, I’m going to defer to Ted.
Manchin is a fricking piece of shite. WV needs to get him out.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:43 am to Crimson Wraith
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He added, "I don't know how you can live with yourself right now knowing that people lost their lives."
People die every day. Remind me how many people died during the BLM “peaceful protests.” Also remind me how many babies get slaughtered everyday under the policies you support, Mr. Manchin.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:50 am to Crimson Wraith
So if someone dies they shouldn’t vote the way they believe they should vote?
That’s how easily these pieces of shite are swayed?
Spineless pieces of shite
Noted. So next time we don’t like something the democrats are going to vote on we just need to riot. Then, using their logic, they shouldn’t vote yes on said legislation because that would just be inciting more riots.
We might have something there.
That’s how easily these pieces of shite are swayed?
Spineless pieces of shite
Noted. So next time we don’t like something the democrats are going to vote on we just need to riot. Then, using their logic, they shouldn’t vote yes on said legislation because that would just be inciting more riots.
We might have something there.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:57 am to Crimson Wraith
I don't know why people think this guy is a "moderate". He's always come down on the side of the left when it matters.
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