Posted on 09/25/2024 5:34:13 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
Joe Manchin is ending his long and generally successful political career as a sort of a pitiable character, and cautionary tale. The one time flying high Governor of WV, he has a political career that has spanned more than 4 decades. A very popular governor of what was once one of the most reliably democrat state in the Union, he cruised into his Senate spot taking the seat of a WV institution named Robert Byrd in the 2010 election. He has held the seat since then, but facing the ever growing tide of his home states political momentum against him, Manchin finally saw his chances of victory this election were nil, and decided not to run.
Joe Manchin effectively ended his career with a conviction vote on Impeachment against Trump, and put further nails in his coffin with series of party line votes during the Biden administration all this assured his career as a Senator for WV was over. Without his vote none of the 51-50 votes that passed the Senate during Biden’s tenure would have become law, and many of them have been disastrous, particularly for the economy. Manchin knew his vote was needed, and he negotiated various deals in exchange for his votes. However, he also wound up betrayed by his own party, after the 2022 mid terms gave the democrats an effective 51-49 advantage, Manchin was no longer needed to get to to a 50/50 and Kamala casting the tying vote.
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So long, farewell ...
I didn’t know that he was elected right after Robert Byrd to the Senate.
That WV ancestry tree in politics doesn’t have many branches.
Not at all impressed with Manchin.
The Obama war on coal destroyed West Virginia. Manchin is a casualty of that war
A pure politician that took his career down a one way dead end road.
Maybe CNN or MSNBC can hire him. He’ll do well there.
Actually it predates Obama, though his actions didn’t help.
WV began its move right under the final years of Clinton.
The Democrats “Green” Pandering took WV, one of the most reliably blue states and turned it Red... had Al Gore and the Dems not turned their back on Coal, FL would not have mattered in the 2000 election.
Obama’s actions certainly accelerated the Rightward movement to be sure, but the realignment of the Rust belt has honestly been LONG LONG overdue.
Oh he’ll be fine, no doubt... but I am certain he planned a different end of his career.
I’ve personally felt Manchin as for a long time been trying to set himself up for a WH run, hoping that the party would finally go so far left he could play the role of “reasonable” one relatively speaking and snatch a nomination.
Unfortunately for him, his party has just gone off the deep end.
He’s the epitome of the corrupt politician.
Selling the power or using his inside knowledge for personal gain.
Not saying he broke the law. These sort of things are done entirely legally today, Clinton giving million dollar speeches overseas to people that want something from his wife while she was Secretary of State. Rick Perry making HPV vaccines mandatory in TX public schools and his campaign being largely funded by the same pharma company which produces this vaccines...
Term limits will never happen for Congress. It would end MOST of this corruption and just like voter fraud is by design, so is this corruption.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/07/joe-manchin-epipen-price-heather-bresch/
Manchin periodically seemed to express that he knew his party’s path was wrong, but didn’t always follow through. I get the impression he is a good person, but as for his job as a Senator, many missed opportunities to do the right thing for his State and Country.
May the same happen in Pennsylvania.
Basically Manchin sold his votes
Then after coal they were by far the hardest hit by the Oxy crisis.
So much so that WV is now the cheapest real estate in the entire country.
I am going to take a pass on praising Manchin. He talked a good game but always supported the Dem establishment. He voted the way they wanted him to vote on every crucial vote. Then he complained - loudly and publicly - about how bad it was. Manchin is actually worse than a Pelosi or Boxer. They said what they want and voted that way. Manchin lied to stay in office.
With Rush gone, Joe had no reason to continue the game.
Well, he did do one good thing for Americans. He got rid of Democrat Robert “The KKK Bird” Byrd from the U.S. Congress. The first Confederate relic to be culture club cancelled by the lefties and their illegal aliens.
I still say Manchin pressured Biden for the presidential nomination in return for his support of Biden’s porkulus bill and got rolled.
Let's cut to the chase: He sold his soul to the devil when he went to Washington. His occasional attempts at redemption failed. We, the People of West Virginia, got sick of his sorry ass, and now he's leaving the Senate in disgrace.
Hard for me to imagine what it must be like to be an insider in the Democrat Party because the thought of being around most of those people makes me physically ill. Sadly, I'm starting to feel the same way about a lot of Republicans, too.
That old drunken sot Ku Kux Bobby Byrd croaked in office ...
The coal miners must be furious. Vote Democrat all their lives and get the shaft by democrats going green.
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