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In reply to the discussion: Progressive PAC kick-starts search for challengers to Manchin, Sinema [View all]MontanaFarmer
(630 posts)Stupid, stupid, stupid. How about spending some of that Arizona energy to defend Mark Kelly, who has to run again in 2 years. How about loading up behind Tim Ryan for a Sherrod Brown-like run through rust-belt Ohio. John Fetterman or Governor Wolf in PA, same. Arizona is not some bastion of progressivism all of a sudden. I'm supremely happy with the way the election went there this past fall, but it was very close and both Biden and Kelly got some conservative independents and moderate republicans to vote for them. I think it's very likely, in the end, that both Sinema and Manchin vote for whatever reconciliation package comes out of the White House, and that that package is pretty close to the one that's currently being discussed. As for the filibuster, I doubt they'll vote to do away with it but the option remains, as always, on the table. A waste of time, energy, and resources that have plenty of uses elsewhere.