Mike Luckovich for December 29, 2021

And throw the Republicans in the garbage.

If only!!!

They’re an anchor, but they’re not the real problem. The REAL problem is that voters have elected 50 Senators who are utterly opposed to helping their very own citizens.

Love Mike Luckovich and understand the sentiment, but returning Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema is not the answer. That would be a disaster.

I live in California. I am a PROgressive on the far left — supported Bernie in the 2016 primary and Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 primary (but voted for the Democratic nominee both years). If Manchin was in our bright blue state, we would throw his sorry ass out in a second. But he is not in California. A Kamala Harris or a Jerry Brown or an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could never win a seat in West Virginia, a state that Trump carried in 2020 by a margin of 41.7%.

Yeah, Manchin is very frustrating. Yes, he is corrupt and in the pocket of Big Carbon, Big Pharma and a bunch of other Big Special interests. He represents his billionaire donors, even though there is not a single billionaire living in the state of West Virginia.

But if he were to leave, we would get a solid Trumper and McConnell would be senate majority leader.

Right now, Joe Manchin is the only thing standing between us and Senate Majority Leader MITCH McCONNELL.

Manchin is the difference between Biden getting his nominations and much of his legislation to the floor or McConnell blocking everything wholesale and, for all his double-speak, Manchin has consistently been the 50th vote we needed to get to a tie that Kamala could then break. Manchin has voted with the Democrats far more than he has stabbed us in the back, though of course it is the backstabbings we remember.

Manchin is operating in a world that works for him to win as a Democrat in a solid red pro-Trump state.

Return them to the underworld

Should have returned them BEFORE Christmas.

The answer is to vote in more Democrats. These two are just examples of everything that’s wrong with the American political system: votes sold to the highest bidders.

Thank God, for Joe Manchin! Let’s go, Brandon!

Demcrats are looking a gift horse in the mouth.

ML is succinct and apt, from a P.O.V. outside their constituencies, but…. Are either of these two gifts recent and fresh enough to be returnable? If so, there are at least two more DC Dems that could be returned for dragging the donkey down.

Why stop there? Perhaps the returns clerk would, with apologies to Rodney’s ghost,… Take my congresscritter, please!

Wrong desk… that them to the republican party!!!

no-willie finally has a point! We indeed would be better off and really should return both him and the Turd Reich Tot (and each of the latter’s personalities to boot).

They’re from the Real American collection and don’t work…

There are more, but he could carry only two at a time.

I wish.

Manchild, at least, isn’t representing his constituents. Both are bought and paid for by corporations.

Weren’t they Clearance, All Sales Final?

Thank you for not feeding the troll(s)!

Recycling old jokes, are we?

Bad news, Dems, you trade in Manchin, you’re gonna get a moron-Greene-level QRPer in his stead………………………….right-wing populists?: