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Live Video: Senate "Debates" Kavanaugh Nomination Before Final Vote

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ipsos10/05/2018 2:13:51 pm PDT

re: #405 Dave In Austin

My compromise….. This would work for me.

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Manchin, in the end, was just a profile in cowardice who didn’t matter anyway. By waiting for Collins to be the deciding vote, Joe became just (ironically) a “me too.” Even if he’d suddenly announced he was a no vote, it would have been 50-50 at that point and Pence would have broken the tie in Kavanaugh’s favor.

What should happen to Manchin in the next Senate? Depends. If he wins (and I still hope he does), if he’s our 51st vote we have to suck it up and get along with him, because he can always hold out the threat of switching caucuses.

If he’s our 53rd or 54th vote, then he’ll be an irrelevancy anyway.

So much can happen between now and November, never mind January.