Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is supporting Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) call for a delay in the full Senate vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to let the FBI perform an investigation on the sexual assault allegations against him.
“I applaud Senator Flake’s decision to rise above the partisan circus on display during this entire process,” Manchin said in a statement. “It is what is right and fair for Dr. Ford, Judge Kavanaugh, and the American people.”
Read the full statement here:
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Nielsen: "I just want to thank the President, again." pic.twitter.com/5m8WSU9Xej — TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) April 8, 2019
McTurtle: Mr. President, your nominee is fucked.
Toadglans: Really? By who? I hope she’s an 8. I wouldn’t fuck anybody who wasn’t at least an 8.
[hits the “Bring me a Coke” button.]
Would love to see the glass as half-full but I fear this is an exercise in kabuki theater designed to provide improved cover for yes votes a week from now from Flake (at a minimum), and quite likely Collins, Murkowski, and (possibly) Manchin as well.
Taking cover when he can find it…
It is gonna be up to the ghost of J.Edgar Hoover, or Efrem Zimbalist Jr to you old timers…
Seriously… I will be beyond angry at Heitkamp and Manchin if they vote for Kavanaugh after what we already know. Especially because I donated (albeit small sums) to both for re-election, and have criticized people for calling them DINOs and saying they should be primaried or should just become Republicans.
I value having a majority above almost everything, but one of the things I find more valuable is what one does in moments like this. When what is right may not be popular - there is a clear, unequivocal right and wrong here, and if they cannot stand up for victims of sexual assault and against political hack liars who are angry, belligerent and screaming at their female colleagues in public… yeah, they should just switch parties.
Manchin is irrelevant.