As we speak, there is no bill on the congressional docket that would provide Democrats an excuse to blow up the filibuster-or, as the media might euphemistically refer to it, "Reforming" or "Overhauling" the filibuster.
A casual follower of politics would surely be under the impression that there is a pressing battle unfolding because the media are incessantly covering the filibuster issue as a way to pressure holdout moderate Democrats to join the left in the efforts to destroy the Senate.
To which Manchin emphatically responded, "That's b--t." And then noted he had opposed a Democratic Party effort to kill the filibuster in 2013 and would do it again.
Not to The New York Times which asked Manchin in January about the filibuster, to which he answered: "I can assure you I will not vote to end the filibuster, because that would break the Senate."
To which Manchin said: "I'm not going to change my mind on the filibuster."
A few days after that, when Manchin was asked by Politico: "I want to make it very clear to everybody: There's no way that I would vote to prevent the minority from having input into the process in the Senate. That means protecting the filibuster. It must be a process to get to that 60-vote threshold."
The media could be asking more meaningful questions, instead of doing raw advocacy for the progressive wing.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/04/05/medias-all-in-campaign-to-destroy-filibuster/
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