Dems cave again, Senate Will Avoid Government Shutdown As Dems Drop Fight

[krawhitham]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/senate-hatches-last-minute-deal-to-avoid-shutdown

WASHINGTON — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is backing off his push to extend coal miners insurance for a year as part of a bill to fund the government, averting the risk of a shutdown at midnight Friday.

In a speech on the Senate floor Friday evening, Manchin expressed grave disappointment that Congress would only extend health care benefits for retired miners and their widows for four months, rather than the longer extension he had pushed for. While Manchin will not hold up the government funding bill past Friday night’s deadline, he said that he would vote against the bill in protest.

Manchin chastised his colleagues for using working Americans and coal miners, in their campaign ads, while refusing to negotiate on extending benefits for them and instead going home for the holidays.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/senate-hatches-last-minute-deal-to-avoid-shutdown

[COLGATE4]

1. Just a taste of things to come... nt

[a kennedy]

2. FAWK.....

[LuvLoogie]

3. Joe Manchin is in it for himself. Those who play both sides against the middle

should just be considered a "no" when you need a yes. Manchin should be left in the wildernes until he has at least 10 pro-dem votes, in a row, without condition. Until then he's useless. No more Dems trying to extort deals from Dems.

[Me.]

13. Of Course He Is

Look at his daughter and how she gouged people with her Pharma increases, apple not dropping far from tree

[katsy]

4. Caved? Maybe woke up.

Coal miners voted en masse for trump.

They CHOSE trump/gop policies & values. You want maybe beat them into submission? Give em a cookie & they'll see the light?

At what point should we let voters feel the consequences of their actions? Are we their nannies?

[krawhitham]

5. Really? No wonder we lost

[katsy]

10. Chk yourself. I voted for HRC

She lost by 80k fucking votes.

That's how many coal miners published reports say supported trump.

They voted FOR gop policies yet i'm the reason we lose?

Mmmm 👌🏻

[BeyondGeography]

6. I think this was about keeping the D caucus together more than anything

Schumer stuck his neck out for WV, OH and IN. When the benefits expire, it will be on Trump. Pretty good move on his part, IMO.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. And it is our job to tell every single Repub. "friend" etc exactly what is being done to them.

if only a simple email of a link like the post

EVERY time....

[onecaliberal]

7. Maybe the coal miners need to get what they voted for.

[Ohioblue22]

9. This is one of the reasons dems lose

[Hokie]

11. Good!

It's time folks paid a price for being stupid. The coal mining areas of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky have turned into Republican cesspools who voted for Trump in huge numbers.

[guillaumeb]

12. Another example of Manchin being Manchin.

But he does have a (D) rather than an (I) behind his name.

Does his daughter Heather Bresch share his deep social convictions and concern for others?