Posted on 12/20/2021 5:48:05 PM PST by simpson96
Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) on Monday dared Democrats to push him out of the party if they are unhappy with his views, one day after he announced he will not support President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, effectively killing the bill.
Asked on Hoppy Kercheval’s West Virginia radio show if he believes there is still a place for him in the Democratic party, Manchin replied: “I would like to hope that Democrats feel like I do. I’m fiscally responsible and socially compassionate.”
“Now if there are no Democrats like that, they ought to push me where they want me,” he added.
During the interview, Manchin said he had gotten “to the wit’s end” with the negotiation efforts, saying the White House knows “the real reason” things fell apart.
White House staff “drove some things and they put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable. They know what it is,” he said.
“The bottom line [is] I knew that we could not change, it was never going to change,” Manchin added.
He reiterated that he warned Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer months ago that there needed to be means-testing and work requirements for the child tax credit and that the bill was “very far-reaching.”
“We have been way far apart philosophically,” he added.
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Manchin is either an idiot or is being paid by thw leftist billionaires to do what he is doing.
Either way, he is a useful idiot.
*****
Not buying it.
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He said, or it was reported, that he would caucus with the Dems as an Independent- and he’s calling the squad to explain himself!
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hee hee hee
I love it.
Don’t throw me into the briar patch.
Just what our side needs. Another Rino.
Whore dares pimp...
I get the feeling he’s going to cave to some “compromise “. But in the meantime it’s fun to watch.
I’ll take 1 more Rino over a Kamel Toe every day of the week.
I messaged my Senator Sherrod Brown and asked, “Why can’t you be more like Joe Manchin?”
Colin Powell: "I am a fiscal conservative with a social conscience."
In other words, liberal.
Manchin voted to convict Donald Trump twice.
“I’m fiscally responsible and socially compassionate.”
That used to be the most common type of elected Democrat.
I’m wondering if he is going to run for president.
I guess it's easy, sitting here in the FR peanut gallery, to second-guess.
“I get the feeling he’s going to cave”
Senator Manchin is old enough to remember Jimmy Carter era inflation. He knows how hard inflation hits the lower income elderly.
I didn’t say he wan’t a POS, but the turtle is letting the Dems pass things with 50 votes and it has to stop, now.
If it does’t we are passing a fully funded border wall with 51 votes in Feb 2023 and When Biden Vetos it we are funding daily flights from Laredo to Willmington full of illegals, with 51 votes, until he signs it.
He’s always been big on social welfare spending. He’s more of a 1970’s style Democrat.
Yep! You’d think by today’s horrific action by the evil rats against him he would’ve flipped them off by now and walked off the socialist plantation! It’s beginning to look like Manchin likes holding the power over his demonRat brothers! All this is for attention and kabuki theater.
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