Tag Archives: Joe Manchin

Manchin again (the video version)

Posted on October 21, 2021 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was hungover and tired of my blogging choices. “How come you gotta do two posts in a row about Manchin? What about all them other creeps in the U.S. Senate?” So I told him for the tenth time: … Continue reading →

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Moral midgets like Manchin hold sway

Posted on October 19, 2021 by oddmanout215

“Lighten up, Odd Man,” Swamp Rabbit said as he stepped into my shack with a bottle of Wild Turkey. “You can’t call Joe Manchin a moral midget. What’s moral to him might not be moral to you, and vicey-versey.” “No … Continue reading →

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Wishful thinking, a.k.a. bipartisanship

Posted on August 4, 2021 by oddmanout215

I told Swamp Rabbit that the country is in a one-step-forward, two-steps-back historical loop, and there’s no reason to believe things will get better anytime soon. He didn’t want to believe this, so I summarized some news stories for him … Continue reading →

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Time’s running out, but Biden still won’t voice the f-word

Posted on July 16, 2021 by oddmanout215

The consensus was that Joe Biden gave a rousing speech Tuesday in Philadelphia that will do nothing to derail voter suppression efforts in red states around the country. So what was the point? I asked my neighbor Swamp Rabbit but … Continue reading →

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For the People Act was dead on arrival. What now, Dems?

Posted on June 29, 2021 by oddmanout215

I was in a quandary, like other non-Trumpers who are watching the Republican Party’s full-scale effort to strip voting rights from as many Democrats as it takes to ensure future elections are won by extreme right-wingers. One might assume this … Continue reading →

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Time waits for no one (especially timid Democrats)

Posted on May 19, 2021 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit had a confession to make. “The closer I follow the news, the less I understand what them Dems are up to. What am I missing?” He’d been trying to figure out why Democrats in Washington, D.C. weren’t pushing … Continue reading →

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Hey Joe, your name should be DINO

Posted on April 8, 2021 by oddmanout215

We absorbed the pandemic’s impact in stages, imagining the tireless little beasties at the root of the problem. The billions of stealthy insurgents eager to bond with human cell receptors, using spike proteins as battering rams to enter the cells … Continue reading →

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The ‘millionaires against a $15 minimum wage’ club

Posted on March 9, 2021 by oddmanout215

“There’s a lot of peeps don’t mind believing the end is near, so long as it ain’t too near. The Apocalypse is a comfort to them. The alternative is to walk around thinking we might be able to patch things … Continue reading →

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