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Manchin knows his 'headache-inducing' arguments make him look bad: West Virginia's largest newspaper
June 17, 2021
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-WV) was harshly criticized for his recent op-ed arguing against protecting voting rights by passing the For the People Act.
Now, the same newspaper has a new editorial exploring his judgement.
"Sure, Manchin is a centrist and a dealmaker. However, his recent op-ed in the Gazette-Mail in which he declared he will vote against the For the People Act — aimed at getting dark money out of politics and eliminating heavy voter suppression tactics enacted by Republican legislatures — did not compute. As many have said, and will continue to say, arguing against a bill to stop partisan voter suppression because there's no bipartisan support is headache-inducing," the Charleston Gazette-Mail wrote.
"The same could be said about Manchin's seemingly unmovable stance on the filibuster. It flies in the face of Manchin's previous support of voting rights expansion — he co-sponsored a similar bill in 2019 — and his previously stated desire for filibuster reform," the newspaper noted.
"Some have noted that Manchin's arguments against things he used to support mirror talking points from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a group that resumed donating to Manchin this year after a nearly decade-long drought," the newspaper reported. "Now, Manchin has preemptively shut down negotiations on the For the People Act, while coming up with his own list of demands, despite the former's soaring popularity among Democrats and Republicans in West Virginia. That's bipartisan, right? That's what the constituents want. Surely, Manchin's seen the polling. So why won't he budge?"
The newspaper believes Manchin will be judged by his lack of a valid argument.
"We're not sure what the answer is, but it can't be that these are things West Virginians don't want, and it can't be bipartisanship for bipartisanship's sake. Manchin knows this isn't playing well back home. How much he shows he cares about that will be telling," the newspaper concluded.
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Fox host whines Biden fighting voter suppression is like Kennedy stopping segregation in the South
June 17, 2021
Fox News personality Mark Levin unleashed an unhinged rant on the Joe Biden administration for protecting Americans' Constitutional right to vote.
"You have an attorney general by the name of Merrick Garland," Levin correctly noted, before veering off on a trip to crazytown. "Who doesn't merrick (sic) being Attorney General of the United States.
"Thank God he didn't wind up on the United States Supreme Court," Levin said. "They promoted him as a moderate, this judicial figure — he is a radical and he has radicals underneath him."
He then complained about the Department of Justice expanding its Civil Rights Division to defend voters against Republican voter suppression laws.
Levin complained the effort was because Democrats "want it to be like the Robert Kennedy era, where he's going after the segregated South. That's what they're trying to do."
Outside of Fox News, the legal battle against segregation is widely considered to be a massive victory for defending Americans' constitutional rights.
Levin's was then cut off by Sean Hannity.
Watch:
Apparently Merrick Garland is now a radical https://t.co/uuvX400p0u— Acyn (@Acyn) 1623981109.0
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This red state governor is pushing to expand Medicaid after the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare
June 17, 2021
The United States Supreme Court on Thursday rejected yet another Republican-led effort to kill the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Following the ruling, the Democratic governor of Kansas called for her state to finally expand Medicaid expansion.
""Today's Supreme Court decision is a victory for more than one million Kansans with a preexisting condition and the future health of our workforce," Gov. Laura Kelly wrote in a statement, KSNT-TV reports.
"It's clear that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, and it's time for Kansas to join 38 states and the District of Columbia by expanding Medicaid to support our economic growth, protect our rural hospitals, and provide quality, affordable healthcare to 165,000 Kansans," she explained.
However, the state's Republican attorney general blasted the Supreme Court ruling.
"It is disappointing that after all this time and effort, the U.S. Supreme Court still declined to reach the merits and answer the important constitutional question presented: By what authority does Congress order Americans to buy insurance?" Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt wrote as if her were completely ignorant of the court's reasoning during a decade of GOP challenges to the law.
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