joe manchin

So now they love Senate filibuster
Commentary, Nation World
Nov 13, 2024
News outlets called the last outstanding U.S. Senate race this week for Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona. That gives Republicans a 53-47 edge in the ...
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After Biden, some questions — and answers
Commentary, Nation World
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Jul 25, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s abrupt withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race raised more questions than it provided answers. Here are so...
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The emerging GOP plan to beat Kamala Harris
Commentary, Nation World
PHILIP WEGMANN RealClearPolitics 
Jul 22, 2024
The two words that Donald Trump did not say in Milwaukee when accepting the Republican presidential nomination? Kamala Harris. Republicans are now dev...
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Some must-dos for Congress before Jan. 1
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 17, 2022
Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...
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How Joe Manchin got his superpowers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
Aug 07, 2022
By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny state of West Virg...
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Joe Manchin’s travesty
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 02, 2022
Congress has never cared much about truth-in-labeling, but even by its standards, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” is laughably absurd. The deal ...
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The senator who could rescue Biden’s agenda
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
KARL W. SMITH Tribune News Service 
Dec 29, 2021
The success or failure of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda could depend on a single senator from a mountainous state who has idiosyncratic vie...
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Demolishing Democrats’ delusions
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Dec 23, 2021
Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been wat...
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The high-water mark of Biden-era progressivism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 22, 2021
Joe Manchin and London Breed have nothing in common. One is an old-school Democratic senator from West Virginia, surviving and thriving in an increasi...
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Just blame it on Joe
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Dec 03, 2021
Two tiresome realities about being president of the United States: First, everybody blames you for things over which you have little or no control, su...
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Biden faces a major test
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 23, 2021
He may not be onetime Master of the Senate Lyndon Johnson, but, having spent 36 years in the upper house and eight years in the vice presidency, Joe B...
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Kyrsten Sinema under attack
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Oct 07, 2021
Remember the media cheers for Sen. John McCain when he stopped the effort to repeal Obamacare? McCain was a Republican frustrating a Republican policy...
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The ghost in the Capitol
Local Columnists, Nation World
STEVEN ROBERTS 
Jun 19, 2021
As the Senate returns to work and faces a fistful of thorny issues — from upgrading infrastructure to upholding voting rights — the ghost of a man nam...
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