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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2fer MANCHIN: Climate villain, and, says his life would be "much easier" as a Repuke
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen
The dirty dozen: meet Americas top climate villains
.... THE OBSTRUCTIONIST
Mitch McConnell
Senate minority leader
Mitch McConnell admitted to believing in human-caused climate change only in 2020. He is also the chief architect of ongoing Republican obstructionism. Under President Obama, whose climate actions he smeared as a war on coal, McConnell used the filibuster to block even tepid climate reforms supported by a majority of Americans. ....
THE SABOTEUR
Joe Manchin
US senator
Today, Joe Manchin is most famous for being a swing vote for important legislation, but the real story is how the fossil fuel industry made him mega-wealthy through two coal companies he founded in the 1980s. ....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10134877/Democrat-Sen-Joe-Manchin-says-asked-day-switching-GOP.html
Democrat Sen Joe Manchin says he is asked 'every day' about crossing the aisle to join GOP as he concedes his life would be 'much easier' as a Republican
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https://www.businessinsider.com/sen-manchin-approached-every-day-about-becoming-republican-2021-10
Sen. Joe Manchin says he's approached 'every day' about becoming a Republican: 'I don't know where in the hell I belong'
.... Manchin made the comments at the Economic Club of Washington, DC, where he was interviewed by billionaire David Rubenstein, the chairman of the Carlyle Group. Rubenstein asked the senator if he thinks it would be easier for him if he "shifted to being a Republican."
"Oh, it would be much easier, my goodness," Manchin said, adding, "Is that the purpose of being involved in public service?"
"What I'm telling you now is who I am," he went on to say. "Do you think by having a 'D' or an 'I' or an 'R' is going to change who I am?"
"I don't think the Rs would be any happier with me than Ds are right now," Manchin continued, to laughter from the audience. "I mean, that's about as blunt as I can put it. So I don't know where in the hell I belong." ....
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2fer MANCHIN: Climate villain, and, says his life would be "much easier" as a Repuke (Original Post)
UTUSN
Oct 2021
OP
How about your state elect someone who will actually work for THEM and not himself.
onecaliberal
Oct 2021
#2
Lovie777
(12,260 posts)1. The rich creating a new world on a space station . . .
Bezo, Musk, and others, because they are fucking up the earth. The SciFi old movies were not off when they depicted a barren earth.
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)2. How about your state elect someone who will actually work for THEM and not himself.